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Algeria's parliament has appointed the speaker of its upper house, Abdelkader Bensalah, to succeed former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika - who was forced to resign last week after 20 years in power.

Mr Bensalah will be an interim head of state during a transition period in which fresh presidential elections will be organised.

But he's not popular with the protesters who gathered in the massive demonstrations that pushed out Mr Bouteflika.

They regard Mr Bensala as too close to the ousted president.

Within minutes of the announcement of Mr Bensalah's appointment protesters again took to the streets of Algiers.

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A High Court in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, has suspended a ban imposed by a private school on Muslim children saying their daily prayers at the school or going to a nearby mosque.

The suspension will remain in place until the case is determined, the court said.

Muslim groups have argued that the ban imposed by Oshwal Academy, located in Nairobi's Parklands suburb, violated their religious rights and was discriminatory as prayers of the Jain faith were recited during assemblies, the local Daily Nation has previously reported. , external

The school stopped allowing parents to pick up their children during lunch breaks, following the deadly attack by militant Islamists on the Westgate shopping centre in 2013, it said.

Oshwal Academy said the rule had been introduced for security reasons, the newspaper added.

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Algeria's parliament has named Abdelkader Bensalah, the speaker of the upper house, as the country's interim president.

He will replace Abdelaziz Bouteflika who resigned last week following widespread protests.

South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has denied an allegation by a local newspaper that former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi gave him $30m (£22m). According to the Sunday Times the money was to secure Col Gaddafi legal representation if he was captured and taken to court or to pass on to his family if he was killed.

The Libyan leader was caught and killed in 2011.

Mr Zuma tweeted that he knows nothing about the allegation and implied that it was another story about him that the paper had got wrong.

The allegation is that the money had been stored in a vault since 2011 in Mr Zuma's private home before it was moved to eSwatini early this year.

It said that the country's monarch King Mswati III was aware.

The paper also alleged that Mr Zuma's successor Cyril Ramaphosa had knowledge of the cash movement.

Both South Africa and eSwatini have denied the allegations, external, the Citizen news site reports.

South Africa's International Relations Minister Lindiwe Sisulu also denied the allegations saying the story did not reflect "realities on the ground".

Read more: Jacob Zuma - the survivor whose nine lives ran out

Sudanese women have been in the forefront of protests calling for President Omar al-Bashir to step down after 30 years in office.

For three day now protesters have camped outside the army headquarters in the capital, Khartoum, urging soldiers to join their cause.

A picture of one woman protester standing on a platform while addressing crowds is being shared widely, and garnering a lot of discussion online.

One Twitter user has broken down what the woman's sartorial choice means:

In one video, the woman - who remains unknown - is seen singing about revolution:

The daughter of US President Donald Trump has said that she is "excited to travel to Africa" to boost her work on her women's development initiative.

Ivanka Trump is scheduled to travel to Ethiopia and Ivory Coast next week.

"This mission is crucial to peace and stability of Nations and is achievable if we focus our collaborative efforts on job training, entrepreneurship and breaking down legal and cultural barriers," she said in her statement.

Ms Trump's programme helps women with financial support and legal support among other things.

Former England footballer David Beckham is not known for his polyglot skills but he is leading a new anti-malaria campaign where he appears to be speaking nine languages.

He's in a short film talking about the fight against malaria and through camera and computer technology seems to be speaking Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Arabic and Yoruba among other languages.

His lips and face are moving in the right way but the voices that you hear belong to survivors of malaria.

Organisers hope that people around the world will log on and add their voices.

The resulting "voice petition", as they call it, will be used to put pressure on world leaders as they prepare to make decisions about the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Demonstrators in Sudan have spent another night camped outside the military headquarters in the capital, Khartoum. They are calling for President Omar al-Bashir to step down and are urging the military to support them against the regime.

Ahmed Mahmoud spent the night on the streets with his fellow protesters. He told BBC Newsday that the the army helped to protect them when they were attacked by other security forces:

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The Algerian parliament is due to elect an interim president following the forced resignation of the 82-year-old Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

Protesters are planning to take to the streets once more to demand a shake-up of the entire political system, and for more heads to roll.

"They are not delusional and they know that the remaining weapon is to keep pressure, to keep protesting," protester Farah Souames told BBC Newsday.

Ms Souames said they do not trust the team set up to organise elections within 90 days as it was the same one that would have overseen Mr Bouteflika's re-election.

"People are not trusting this and they don't want these people," Ms Souames added.

Read: How Algeria's army sacrificed a president to keep power

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Remittances to developing nations reached a record high of around $529bn (£404bn) in 2018, the World Bank has said.

This was an increase of 9.6% from the previous year, which had also been a record, it added.

The five biggest recipients of remittances were:

• India $79bn
• China $67bn
• Mexico $36bn
• Philippines $34bn and
• Egypt $29bn.

Remittances to sub-Saharan Africa rose by nearly 10% to $46bn in 2018.

"Looking at remittances as a share of gross domestic product, Comoros has the largest share, followed by The Gambia, Lesotho, Senegal, Cape Verde, Liberia, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Togo, Ghana, and Nigeria," the World Bank added., external

One of the reasons for the growth in remittances was a stronger US economy, it said.

"Excluding China, remittances to low- and middle-income countries ($462bn) were significantly larger than foreign direct investment flows in 2018 ($344bn)," the World Bank said.

An eyewitness has described to AFP news agency the scene outside the army headquarters in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, after the security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters demanding an end to President Omar al-Bashir's 30-year rule.

"The security officers are firing heavy tear gas. I can see protesters coughing and covering their faces with hands and medical masks," the unnamed eyewitness is quoted as saying.

"I can also hear gunshots but it's unclear who is firing," he added.

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Embattled Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has called for dialogue, saying it was the only way to resolve the crisis that has hit the country.

He also warned of groups trying to hold the nation hostage and conspiring with foreigners, as a tweet by a Sudanese journalist shows:

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Researchers have discovered traces of deadly viruses in underground water in the slums of Kampala city in Uganda and Arusha in Tanzania, Kenya's privately-owned Daily Nation newspaper reports., external

The paper says the study, conducted by the Netherlands-based IHE Delft Institute for Water Education and their peers from Uganda and Tanzania, found traces of 25 DNA virus families, some of which are harmful for humans.

It found that most underground water in slums in the two cities had traces of herpes virus, pox virus and papilloma virus and that the latter could be one of the causes of cancer in East Africa.

“These viruses have never been found on such a large scale in ground water. Perhaps it is because there has never been an in-depth analysis,” the paper quotes Jan Willem Foppen, one of the lead researchers and a hydrologist at the IHE Delft, as saying.

The UN has condemned an air strike that closed the only functioning airport in Libya's capital, Tripoli, on Monday.

Flights at Mitiga International Airport were suspended and passengers were evacuated. No casualties were reported.

The UN blamed the air strike on forces loyal to General Khalifa Haftar, a commander from the east who is trying to seize the capital.

A spokesman for Gen Haftar's forces said civilian planes had not been targeted, Reuters news agency reports.

Gen Haftar, who leads the Libyan National Army (LNA), declared an offensive to take control of Tripoli from Libya's UN-backed government last week.

Read the full BBC story here

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Sudan's Minister of Defence and Vice-President Awad Muhammad Bin-Awf has warned that the army will not allow the country to "slip into chaos", the state-run Suna news agency has reported.

The armed forces were not opposed to the aspirations of protesters, but would not compromise on Sudan's "security, unity and leadership", he added.

Certain groups were trying to sow discord between the various security agencies, but this would not be allowed, Mr Bin-Awf added.

His comments - after a meeting with military chiefs - followed reports that soldiers tried to protect protesters demanding President Omar al-Bashir's resignation, and clashed with security forces who tried to disperse them.

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Security forces in Sudan have fired tear gas to try to break up thousands of protesters gathered outside the army headquarters in the capital, Khartoum. There are reports of shots being fired.

Protesters are camping out for a third night, demanding the resignation of President Omar al-Bashir.

They want the military to protect them. One of the groups leading the protests, the Alliance for Freedom and Change, has called on the army to help in the creation of a transitional government.

President al-Bashir, who's been in power for nearly 30 years, has faced a wave of protests since last December.

Read: The economics behind the protest

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"After 30 years in office, President Omar al-Bashir’s vicious days in charge of Sudan are numbered," writes a doctor in Khartoum, only named as S Ahmed, in the online journal African Arguments, external.

This is the third consecutive day of protests and the doctor describes how some soldiers protected the demonstrators who are near the military headquarters.

"The sit-in has survived in part due to the brave actions of soldiers in the Sudanese Armed Forces. They have protected the protesters at great danger to themselves.," Dr Ahmed says.

Meanwhile, BBC Focus on Africa spoke to one protester, Walaa, about what was happening.

She said that live ammunition was being used against the demonstrators, who have not left the area outside the military headquarters since Saturday: