Look at tourist photos of Lake Naivasha in Kenya's famous Rift Valley and you'll see calm waters teeming with hippos and birds. But for the people living on the shoreline the reality can be very different.

A recent study found that 70% of waste generated in the area ends up in the lake, even though its water is used by the local community for drinking.

Now, activist Duncan Oloo has had enough of the situation and has set up Kwa-Muhia Environmental Group. Supported by Waste Aid and British waste firm Biffa, it is building a new recycling centre and employing local people to make useful products out of the waste.

Listen to him being interviewed by BBC Newsday's Lawrence Pollard:

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The Democratic Republic of Congo has some of highest rates of sexual violence in the world. But a new approach is trying to tackle this by encouraging men to confront and question their toxic masculinity.

Moises Bagwiza is one of the men who now reflects with regret on his past, and his recollections of how he treated and raped his wife, Jullienne, are frank, graphic and disturbing.

"Sex with her was like fighting. I didn't care what she was wearing - I would just tear it all off," he says.

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Turkey's governing party says White House plans to designate Egypt's oldest Islamist movement - the Muslim Brotherhood - a foreign terrorist organisation will damage democracy in the Middle East and play into the hands of militants, such as the Islamic State group.

AK spokesman Omer Celik was responding to comments by White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, who said the process was under way internally.

The Muslim Brotherhood has close ties with the AK Party; many of its members have gone to Turkey since the Brotherhood was banned by Egypt in 2013 and vigorously suppressed.

In its own response, the Muslim Brotherhood said on Tuesday it would continue to work in line with what it termed as its "moderate and peaceful thinking".

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The result of Caster Semenya's landmark case against athletics' governing body will be published on Wednesday.

The double Olympic 800m champion is challenging the IAAF over its regulation restricting testosterone levels in female runners.

The rule will apply to women in track events from 400m up to the mile.

Semenya would either have to take medication to be eligible to compete in the 800m, change events or move to compete against men.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it will publish its ruling at midday on Wednesday.

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All 1,800 workers trapped underground at a platinum mine in South Africa have been brought to surface, the government's Department of Mineral Resources has said in a tweet, external.

Rails had fallen down a shaft on Tuesday afternoon, leaving the workers "stuck" underground at the mine in Rustenburg in North West province, the mine's owner, Sibanye-Stillwater, said.

Last year, 955 miners were rescued from a Sibanye-owned gold mine after a storm damaged electricity supply and trapped them underground.

The firm had a "dismal" track record at its gold mines during 2018, when 21 employees were killed in the first half of the year, prompting a much tougher stance on safety, South Africa's leading financial publication, Business Day, reported, external.

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A BBC investigation has found that alleged war crimes committed in Libya are being widely shared on Facebook and YouTube.

Nearly 100 images and videos were found, documenting graphic violence, including the mutilation of bodies of fighters and civilians.

The desecration of bodies can be prosecuted as a war crime.

A leading human rights lawyer examining the BBC evidence said that by allowing the sharing of such material, Facebook and YouTube could be assisting in the commission of further crimes.

The two platforms have responded by removing some of the images.

The BBC identified several special force members of the Libyan National Army who are suspected of carrying out the violence.

Read: Why is Libya so lawless?

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A Facebook group used by a suspected death squad operating within the Kenyan police has been removed from the social media site, two weeks after it was exposed by a BBC report.

The "Nairobi Free Crime" group profiled crime suspects, mostly young men, and even shared photos of their dead bodies once they had been executed.

When contacted by the BBC, Facebook said it would investigate the page, which had more than 300,000 members.

Close-up shots of heads split open by bullets and eviscerated bodies were among gruesome images added to the page almost daily. Often these came with a warning that the same fate awaited other would-be criminals.

Rights activists in poor suburbs in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, have said they too had been profiled on "Nairobi Free Crime" because they oppose extra-judicial killings.

The Kenyan police has, however, repeatedly denied that there is a death squad in its force.

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Read more: How Facebook is being used to profile and kill Kenyan 'gangsters'

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Africa editor, BBC World Service

The United Nations children's fund says 2.3 million people do not have enough food due to a severe drought in Angola.

Thousands are being treated for malnutrition.

The drought is particularly bad in southern Angola, where the number of people in need of aid has trebled since the beginning of the year.

The oil-rich country has been in an economic crisis since the price of oil fell in 2014.

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Politicians in Benin on Monday evening gave the president 24 hours to invalidate the results of Sunday's legislative election, which didn't have a single opposition party on the ballot.

But a spokesman for the president has dismissed their challenge. Wilfried Léandre Houngbedji labelled their actions "fear-mongering" and says the polls were conducted in line with the law, RFI reports, external.

Opposition figures grouped together and issued their demand on Monday evening after meeting in the main city, Cotonou. The group includes a number of high-profile figures, including former Presidents Boni Yayi and Nicéphore Soglo.

Voter turnout in elections was potentially the lowest in decades, according to AFP.

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Five opposition parties had been barred from taking part in Sunday's polls by electoral authorities, who ruled they did not meet the requirements. New electoral laws pushed through this year mean a party had to pay about $424,000 (£328,000) to field a list for the 83-seat parliament.

The two parties that met the criteria - Republican Bloc and the Progressive Union - are loyal to President Patrice Talon, who has been in power since 2016.

Internet access has been restricted with social media and messaging apps blocked in the West African nation.

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BBC News, Geneva

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The UN Human Rights Commissioner has called for humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to escape from Tripoli.

In a statement issued in Geneva, Michelle Bachelet said she had grave concerns for the safety of thousands of civilians in the Libyan capital.

The UN estimates that at least 42,000 people have been displaced by fighting in the city since the start of April, but that thousands more remain trapped.

"The escalation of attacks in residential areas, including the use of artillery, rockets and airstrikes is deeply worrying.

"Thousands of children, women and men’s lives are at risk," Ms Bachelet said, adding that the indiscriminate use of explosive weapons in densely populated areas was a violation of international law.

Armed groups loyal to General Khalifa Haftar have been battling to take Tripoli from forces of the internationally recognised government for several weeks, amid fears Libya’s ongoing insecurity could degenerate into civil war.

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Sudan's ruling military council says it wants its leader, Lt Gen Abdul Fattah al-Burhan, to head a future governing authority.

It made the announcement after talks with the opposition stalled, with civilians demanding more seats on the body.

The military have also demanded that protesters remove barricades so traffic and train services can resume. It says they can continue their sit-in outside defence headquarters.

It's nearly three weeks since the long-serving President Omar al-Bashir was removed from power by the military following months of anti-government protests.

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Nigeria’s government has secured the release of Zainab Aliyu, an undergraduate who was arrested in Saudi Arabia for alleged drug trafficking.

An assistant to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has just tweeted the announcement using the popular hashtag #FreeZeinab.

On Monday, President Buhari had ordered the attorney general to intervene in the matter.

The news comes as hundreds of her fellow students gathered at Maitama Sule University in the northern city of Kano on Tuesday to demand she be freed.

Ms Aliyu was arrested at her hotel in Medina by Saudi police last December, shortly after arriving for the lesser hajj with her family - and remained in detention until Tuesday.

The Saudi authorities had accused her of trafficking 2,000 packs of Tramadol in a bag tagged with her name left at the airport.

Recently, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency of Nigeria (NDLEA) said it had uncovered a cartel that planted illicit drugs in travellers' luggage.

An investigation was launched after Ms Aliyu's father reported the case to them and it led to the arrest of six officials at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport.

They have been accused before a federal high court of framing Ms Aliyu. They have yet to enter a plea to the charges.

Since the news of the arrest of airport staff came out, Nigerians have been demanding action.

Earlier this month, a Nigerian woman was executed by the Saudi authorities for drug-trafficking.

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BBC News, Johannesburg

Vuyo Ndata had nearly given up hope of going to university - but largely thanks to protests by South African students over high tuition fees - he is now a second-year undergraduate in Johannesburg at the age of 30.

His fees are being paid for by the government, which was prompted to deliver on a long-promised commitment to free education by the nationwide demonstrations, which rocked the country in 2015 and 2016.

Known by the hashtag #FeesMustFall, they were the largest student protests since the end of apartheid in 1994.

During white-minority rule in South Africa, many black students were denied access to prestigious institutions - and high tuition fees have been blamed for continued inequality over the last 25 years.

"I can't put into words how honoured I am to be here. I never thought it would happen to someone like me," says Mr Ndata, who is from Queenstown, a small town in the Eastern Cape province.

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Luc André Diouf will be the first person of Senegalese origin to take a seat as an MP in Spain.

Spain's governing Socialists have won the country's third election in four years, but are short of a majority.

Mr Diouf arrived in the Canary Islands as an undocumented migrant in 1992 and, after working as an interpreter and in the CCOO labour union, joined the Socialist party.

He will represent the city of Las Palmas in parliament.

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Africa editor, BBC World Service

Protesters in Sudan say the army is trying to disperse their sit-in by removing barricades.

The main group, the Sudanese Professional Association, called on the demonstrators to erect new structures to protect themselves.

These protesters were seen building makeshift barricades with bricks earlier today:

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The ruling military council and Sudan's main opposition groups held a third round of talks on Monday but they failed to reach agreement on the composition of a new ruling body.

It is nearly three weeks since the long-serving President Omar al-Bashir was removed from power by the military.

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The former prime minister of Algeria, Ahmed Ouyahia, has become the latest high-profile figure to appear in court as part of a major corruption inquiry.

On Monday, the finance minister and former police chief appeared in court separately. Five billionaires are also under investigation.

The judicial moves come in the wake of mass protests that forced the resignation of long-time President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

The protesters are continuing to demand a complete overturning of the political, military and business elite that's ruled Algeria for decades.

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A former US ambassador is among a team of consultants hired to help South Sudan's government reverse existing US sanctions and block the creation of a war crimes court.

The revelation has sparked outrage among experts and campaigners who say it undermines a crucial element of the peace deal that was signed last year, following five years of a brutal civil war that has killed at least 400,000 and displaced millions.

The two-year contract pays $3.7m (£2.8m) to a California-based lobby group called Gainful Solutions, which agrees, among other aims, to "delay and ultimately block establishment of the hybrid court":

Gainful Solutions is run by Michael Ranneberger, a former US ambassador to Kenya and Mali.

The contract between the two parties was published in the Foreign Agents Registration Act section of the Justice Department website, external, Reuters news agency explains, as the act requires lobbyists acting on behalf of foreign agents in the United States to register the relationship.

South Sudan’s Deputy Chief of Mission in the United States Gordon Buay has denied his government has any intention of abolishing the hybrid court, telling AP news agency the priority was for reconciliation rather than punitive justice.

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