Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge won Sunday's London Marathon with a new course record and set the second fastest marathon time ever. He clocked 02:02:38.

He was followed by Ethiopia's Mosinet Geremew and Mule Wasihun who finished second and third respectively.

The long distance race has been dominated by Kenyans, see the chart below:

London Marathon 2019: Who were the winners?

London Marathon 2019: Eliud Kipchoge wins, Mo Farah fifth

Shingai Nyoka
BBC Africa, Harare

A small fire incident on an Air Zimbabwe flight on Sunday night has forced the carrier to ground its only operating aircraft.

The Boeing 767-200ER, which has to be one of the hardest-working aeroplanes in the aviation industry, serves the Harare, Bulawayo and Victoria Falls routes as well as Johannesburg.

The plane suffered a "malfunction" in one of its engines after flying out of South Africa's main international airport, causing a "brief tail pipe fire", the carrier said in a statement.

It, however, continued on its journey and landed safely in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.

Investigations will be carried out to find the cause of the fire.

The grounding has disrupted travel and left many passengers stranded.

Air Zimbabwe has been burdened by debts which reportedly amount to more than $800m (£620m).

Authorities have been trying to turn around the airline's fortunes, and to acquire additional planes to boost the fleet.

Young people with autism were given the stage at Mr and Miss Autism Kenya 2019, an event in Nairobi to promote better understanding of the condition.

It’s a region where those on the autistic spectrum can still be shunned, neglected or even deemed the result of witchcraft.

BBC Africa's Anthony Irungu met Sarah Bosibori, the winner of this year's pageant, to find out what the title means to her.

Security officials in Burkina Faso say at least five people, including a priest, have been killed in an attack on a church in the north of the country.

The assailants are reported to have arrived on motorbikes.

There has been an increase in militant attacks in Burkina Faso in recent months, mainly conducted by jihadist groups.

Burkina Faso is among countries in the vast Sahel region battling Islamist insurgencies in the region.

It formed a regional force, G5 Sahel, along with Niger, Chad, Mauritania and Mali to take on the militants.

In January Prime Minister Paul Kaba Thieba resigned from office along with his entire cabinet.

His government had faced growing pressure over a rise in the number of kidnappings and jihadist attacks.

Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré was named as new prime minister following a decree by President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

Read more: The war in the desert: Why the Sahara is terror's new front line

Huong Ly
BBC Newsday

A Liberian lawyer who challenged the destruction of the country’s tropical forests for palm oil plantation has won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa.

Alfred Brownell is being recognised for his campaigns to prevent more than 500,000 acres of forest from being cut down by Liberia’s biggest palm oil company, Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL).

Together with local community leaders, Mr Brownell documented the destruction of forests and farmlands in the south-east by GVL.

‘’It’s the time now for big corporations, palm oil companies and investors to invest in communities, to protect them and to empower them’’, he told BBC’s Newsday radio programme.

As a result of his work, the global certification body, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, put a "stop work" order on GVL, freezing any expansion of the palm oil plantations and preventing any further forest clearance.

But it came at a huge cost for Mr Brownell. After facing violence and death threats, he was forced to flee Liberia and is now in exile in the US.

"The real winner of the prize are the communities and its leaders, who have been at the forefront of this struggle to protect the forests," Mr Brownell said.

Listen to the full interview here:

Mayeni Jones
BBC News, Lagos

The rights group, Amnesty International, says women and children are being sexually abused in two prisons in north-eastern Nigeria.

It says the abuse is being carried out by inmates and prison warders.

A former convict and prison warden told the rights group that the abuse of children by other inmates was widespread in the prison.

Three former female detainees also claimed at least 15 of their peers were victims of rape, with soldiers demanding sex in exchange for basic necessities and the promise of freedom.

A spokesperson for the governor of north-eastern Borno state told the BBC that an investigation by a committee, set up specifically to deal with these allegations, was ongoing, and that its findings would be published in due course.

Thousands of people are being held in the jails in northern Nigeria, many suspected to have links with the Islamist group, Boko Haram.

Sudan’s revolution against the military leaders has thrown up many heroes - including a woman named Rifqa, who has been nicknamed the Tear Gas Hunter, and is being celebrated online.

Videos circulate of her picking up tear gas canisters shot by the security forces – and throwing them back, to the cheers of the other protesters.

BBC Newsday’s James Copnall met Rifqa.

The United Nations is granting Mozambique and the Comoros Islands $13m (£10m) in emergency aid after the second cyclone battered the region in a month.

The UN said the funds would help provide food and water, as well as repair damaged infrastructure, after Cyclone Kenneth hit northern Mozambique on Thursday last week, flattening entire villages.

Weather experts are warning the latest tropical storm could dump twice as much rain as Cyclone Idai, which killed more than 900 people in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe.

It's estimated the affected region will need over $2bn to recover.

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People are still mourning veteran South Sudanese journalists Alfred Taban who died over the weekend in Uganda while receiving treatment. (See our earlier story)

Taban was the founder and former editor-in-chief of the Khartoum Monitor.

It was Sudan's first independent English-language paper - launched in September 2000 and renamed the Juba Monitor after South Sudan became independent in 2011.

Taban's daughter has shared videos showing past editions of the Khartoum Monitor her father edited.

Nearly 27 million people are registered to vote in South Africa's general election on 8 May - that's less than half the country's total population.

Six million young eligible voters didn't even bother to register earlier this year.

So why are young people shunning the elections?

The BBC asked a few rappers in the main city, Johannesburg, if they had a rhyme to answer that question.

Forces led by General Khalifa Hafer have launched airstrikes on Tripoli in a bid to gain control of Libya's capital.

BBC Arabic correspondent Firas Kilani monitored the situation on the ground in the capital and southern fronts, and prepared this exclusive report from there.

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A passenger aboard an Air Zimbabwe Boeing has tweeted that one of its engines "blew right after take off" from South Africa's main international airport on Sunday, and it was the "scariest day" of his life:

Some tweeters praised Air Zimbabwe, saying it had an "impeccable safety record":

But others were critical of the decision to continue flying to Zimbabwe's capital, Harare:

See our earlier post

BBC Africa Eye has been to Nyandarua County in central Kenya where 70 people – almost all of them men - killed themselves last year.

Peter Murimi investigates why this is happening.

The situation in northern Mozambique is worse than thought, a UN spokesman says, days after Cyclone Kenneth ravaged the country.

The cyclone struck the nation on Thursday with winds of 220km/h (140mph) which flattened whole villages.

Around 700,000 people are now thought to be at risk in the area as torrential rains continue.

Pemba, regional capital of Cabo Delgado state, has experienced more than 2m (6.5ft) of rain and flooding.

Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) spokesman Saviano Abreu said the situation in the towns of Macomia and Quissanga was critical, adding that there were also worries for the cut-off island of Ibo.

Waves up to 4m high are expected, and aid agencies fear rains will worsen.

Read the full BBC story here

People on Twitter are celebrating Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge's win at the London Marathon on Sunday.

Kipchoge, 34, ran the second fastest marathon in history and won for a record fourth time in two hours two minutes 38 seconds, breaking the world record in Berlin last year.

Here are some reactions on the social media site:

One person shared a Twitter thread showing how Kenya has been winning the marathons since 2014:

Read: Kipchoge on the power of the mind

"A beacon of journalism through the civil war", "a voice for the voiceless", "brave and courageous", "gracious and committed" are just some of the tributes being paid to South Sudanese journalist and politician Alfred Taban, whose death was announced over the weekend.

Taban, a former reporter for the BBC World Service's Focus on Africa and Network Africa programmes in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, was the founder and former editor-in-chief of the Khartoum Monitor.

It was Sudan's first independent English-language paper - launched in September 2000 and renamed the Juba Monitor after South Sudan became independent in 2011.

When he was awarded the National Endowment for Democracy in 2006, the US pro-democracy foundation said Taban had "been one of the leading non-violent voices of Sudan’s dispossessed and marginalised communities, as well as an advocate for national reconciliation, human rights and democracy, external".

Image source, AFP

He was repeatedly jailed by the authorities in Khartoum and was later imprisoned by those in South Sudan for his determination to tell the truth, external.

Amongst his other accolades was the UK’s prestigious House of Commons Press Gallery Speaker Abbot Award for his “bravery in the face of personal risk including torture, and for his commitment to bring to the wider world the horrors of Darfur, external”.

Rachael Akidi Okwir, head of BBC East Africa and who accompanied him to collect that honour in 2005, says she remembers him as "a champion of media freedom in Sudan before the referendum that paved the way for the independence of South Sudan".

In 2017, Taban went into politics and became an MP as part of efforts to end the civil war in the world's newest country.

"Alfred always argued that he was nudged to join politics, and despite later suffering poor health brought about by a stroke, he kept going even when his speech slurred," Akidi Okwir says.

According to South Sudan's Eye Radio, Taban negotiated the release of political prisoners, including journalists, before accepting an appointment to the National Dialogue Initiative, external.

Eye Radio’s station manager Koang Pal said that Taban was a “hero and a true freedom fighter” second only to John Garang, the former rebel leader considered the father of South Sudan.

Others on Twitter have described him as a mentor and BBC colleagues have remembered how generous he was with his advice:

A campaign has been launched on social media to raise money for the family of the 62-year-old to pay for outstanding bills at the hospital where he died in Uganda and to take his body home for burial.

Image source, Getty Images

An Air Zimbabwe passenger plane suffered a "malfunction" in one of its engines after flying out of South Africa's main international airport on Sunday, causing a "brief tail pipe fire", the carrier said in a statement.

The "malfunction" did not threaten the continuation of the flight, and the Boeing 767-200ER landed safely in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, Air Zimbabwe added.

A Twitter user reported that there had been a "fire in the air" after the plane left OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg:

An investigation was under way to establish the cause of the "malfunction", the airline said.

"We regret to inform our valued passengers that this incident may result in a disruption to our normal schedule," it added.

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