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And we leave you with this picture of a boy posing for picture while carrying a dog in Kenya's informal settlement of Kibera in the capital, Nairobi.

A Nigerian student who was arrested last year and wrongly accused of drug trafficking in Saudi Arabia has returned home, two weeks after she was freed.

Zainab Aliyu was reunited with her family at the Kano International Airport.

Saudi authorities had accused her of smuggling 2,000 packs of Tramadol, a strong pain killer, in a bag.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency of Nigeria (NDLEA) later found that a criminal gang, operating at the Kano airport, had been planting illicit drugs in travellers' luggage.

Nigerian government then got involved to secure Zainab's release, which had also received a lot of online support from Nigerians.

Drug trafficking is a capital offence in Saudi Arabia, which practises conservative Islam. Those found guilty are executed.

This was the fate earlier this month of a Nigerian woman, who was beheaded in the city of Mecca, along with two Pakistani men and a Yemeni man.

The BBC Hausa service has shared a video of Zaniab reuniting with her family:

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An Afrikaans dating show in South Africa is welcoming its first gay farmer.

In Farmer Wants a Wife, men working in the countryside are introduced to city women and pick which one they would like to make their wife.

Damian, 37, a cattle and sheep farmer from Bapsfontein, is the first openly gay man to be on the show in its twelve series.

The announcement provoked a mixed reaction on social media, with some arguing that the name should be changed from Farmer Wants a Wife to Farmer Wants a Partner.

Others praised the producers' "progressive" decision as the show has a predominantly conservative, Afrikaaner audience.

Kalkidan Yibeltal
BBC Amharic Service, Addis Ababa

The police in Ethiopia have arrested more than 600 people after raiding bars in the capital, Addis Ababa.

The police commander Getu Aragaw said the weekend operation was an attempt to tackle rising crime.

They targeted 12 bars which are popular with people who smoke shisha pipes or chew the narcotic plant, khat.

Although those activities are not illegal in Ethiopia, correspondents say the bars are seen as a popular hangout for criminals.

The police are trying to stop illegal weapons and drugs being trafficked through Addis Ababa. Almost all of those arrested were released after a few hours.

Eight remain in police custody.

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Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo

Two vehicles have been ambushed on the border between Mozambique and Tanzania in an attack believed to have been carried out by militants, according to the news website Carta de Mocambique.

One of the vehicles was a truck carrying food while the other was a bus carrying passengers from Tanzania to Mozambique.

The militants, thought to be Islamist fundamentalists, allowed the people inside the vehicles to get out before setting the truck and bus alight.

The ambush follows a series of attacks on the roads in Mozambique.

On Friday, an attack on the road between Mocimboa da Praia and Palma resulted in two deaths.

The victims were reportedly travelling into town to sell building materials, following the destruction caused by cyclone Kenneth.

A man is also in hospital after he was shot on same road on Thursday.

Russell Padmore
Business correspondent, BBC News

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Journalists at 13 media companies in Uganda, who were ordered to be suspended by the regulator, will challenge the order in court on Wednesday.

The Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) told broadcast companies to take action against dozens of managers, programme heads and producers, over allegations they contravened broadcasting standards in coverage of events involving Bobi Wine, a prominent critic of the government.

The case is being seen as a test of the freedom of the media industry in Uganda.

Dozens of journalists have been reassigned temporary duties for a month, but not suspended, pending the outcome of the legal challenge.

During a meeting last week with broadcasters the executive director of the UCC, Godfrey Mutabazi, agreed the journalists could step aside during an investigation into whether the "character of that individual" was "embedded in the content brought on air."

The Uganda Journalists Association (UJA) wants the court to restrain the regulator from directing the immediate suspension of staff.

The UJA also wants an injunction restraining the UCC from seeking recordings of live news bulletins broadcast on the 29th of April.

The media clampdown has provoked allegations of censorship of criticism of the government.

It's also reported that media owners accused the regulator of encouraging Ugandans to turn to foreign broadcasters, like the BBC, Al Jazeera or CNN for accurate reporting of events.

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The Kenyan government has announced that it will not extend the 18 May deadline for the mass registration of a unique citizen identifier number known as Huduma Namba.

The aim, the government says, is to consolidate disparate identity cards and certificates already issued to citizens into a "single source of truth" regarding a Kenyan.

Biometric details of citizens aged six and above are being captured in the registration drive.

Interior Minister Fred Matiang'i said the registration exercise will be extended to 20 June for Kenyans in the diaspora.

"We have captured details of 31 million persons - which is approximately 65% of our country’s total population," Mr Matiang'i told reporters.

The exercise has been dogged by controversy, with critics expressing concern that citizens' personal information would not be safe, especially because Kenya does not have a data protection law.

Some state officials have said those who opt out from the registration exercise would be denied state services, contradicting a court ruling that the registration exercise was not compulsory.

Security forces in Sudan have dispersed protestors and removed blockades from roads in the capital Khartoum.

Several cars full of police and the Rapid Support Forces were deployed to the north of the city and there are reports that tear gas was used.

A sit-in outside the army headquarters has continued as protesters call on the military council to hand over to a civilian administration.

Talks between the military and the opposition coalition were supposed to resume on Monday after efforts to agree on a joint civilian-military body to oversee the country had stalled.

Correspondents say there is growing frustration among the Sudanese population as it becomes clear that the military generals are determined to hold onto power.

People have been sharing videos on Twitter of the security operation:

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South Africa is to lodge an appeal after Caster Semenya lost her case challenging new rules that require female athletes to regulate their testosterone levels.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) in Switzerland ruled on 1 May that female athletes with higher levels of testosterone must use treatment to suppress the hormone if they want to compete in sports events for women.

Spokesman for the South African sport and recreation ministry, Vuyo Mhaga, said the appeal would be lodged as soon as possible.

It was based on complaints over judges' past record on similar cases, lack of clarity and the handling of evidence, he said.

"We feel that the scientific information that has been brought has been actually completely ignored and we've got a belief that a different court will arrive at a different determination," he said.

The International Association of Athletics Federations argued that elevated testosterone gives athletes with Differences in Sexual Development (DSD) an unfair advantage.

When asked if she would take the treatment, Semenya responded: "No way."

"I don't know what will happen next," she said. "But no one should tell me what to do, if people want to stop me from doing something that's their problem, not mine."

Read more: Who is Caster Semenya?

People have been paying tribute to Fiacre Gbédji, a Beninese guide who was killed by militants in northern Benin on 1 May.

Mr Gbédji was taking two French tourists on a safari in the remote Pendjari National Park in northern Benin when they were attacked.

His disfigured body was found shortly after they disappeared, along with their abandoned vehicle.

The tourists were taken hostage but were rescued last week by French special forces. Two hostages, from US and South Korea, were freed as well.

Two French soldiers and four kidnappers were killed in the operation.

Mr Gbédji's employer, Move with Africa programme, mourned him as a dedicated colleague who was always smiling and affable.

He was a father of five and also served as an educator Natitingou, in the north-west of the country, Libre Belgique newspaper reports.

A government delegation led by the tourism minister visited Mr Gbédji's family to express their condolences.

A French official also sent condolences to his family:

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed to clean the African National Congress (ANC) of "all bad tendencies" in a bid to end corruption.

In a victory speech in Johannesburg, he thanked voters and said they had sent a "clear message".

Mr Ramaphosa said that the party's lowest ever score of 58% was due to voters expressing their frustration.

He promised he would not choose leaders who work "to fill their own pockets".

The ANC has been in power since Nelson Mandela was elected following the end of white-minority rule 25 years ago.

A struggling economy, corruption and mass unemployment, particularly among young people, led to the ANC's reduced majority in this election.

President Ramaphosa took over the ANC party leadership from Jacob Zuma in 2017, who was forced to resign following a series of corruption scandals. He denies any wrongdoing.

President Ramaphosa said he would address these concerns. "As the leadership, we are going to go back to all those communities which were raising issues," he said.

"We have learnt our lesson. We have heard the people of South Africa. We have heard the very clear message of what they expect from us," he added.

Read the full story on the BBC website.

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Uganda's army is investigating an incident where one of its soldiers serving in Somalia killed his supervisor, and reportedly two other colleagues as well, before turning the gun on himself, local Daily Monitor reports. , external

The Saturday incident happened at the main base of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom).

Uganda army spokesperson Brig Richard Karemire said that only two soldiers had been killed and investigations will determine the soldier's motive.

“The motive isn’t yet known. We want to know whether he was insane or not,” Brig Karemire told the paper.

The identities of the deceased have not yet been released.

Such incidents among Ugandan soldiers are uncommon when on mission outside the country or at home, the paper reports.

Uganda has 5,000 soldiers serving in the 10,000-strong Amisom force, whose mandate is to shore up the UN-recognised government as well as conduct offensive operations against militant Islamist group al-Shabab.

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Zimbabwe earned $2.7m (£2m) for exporting 97 elephants to China and Dubai over a six year period, Tourism Minister Priscah Mupfumira has said, state-linked Chronicle newspaper reports, external.

She said the animals exported were sub-adults, meaning they were between two and thee years old.

The elephants were sold for prices ranging from $13,500 to $41,500 each, the paper reports.

Ms Mupfumira said the profit would go towards the conservation of elephants.

“Zimbabwe’s carrying capacity is 55,000 elephants but now we have 85,000," she added.

Ms Mupfumia said they could not cull due to restrictions imposed by Cites, an organisation that governs the trade in endangered species. The issue was recently discussed at the Elephant Summit in Kasane, Botswana.

Along with Namibia and South Africa, Zimbabwe is pushing for the lifting of elephant hunting and are backing a request for Cites to allow ivory stockpile sales to fund elephant conservation.

“We are sitting on ivory worth $300m which could be sold to fund our conservation programmes as well as benefit communities living in wildlife areas,” Ms Mupfumira said.

Victor Kenani
BBC Africa, Nairobi

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Dozens of state officials in Kenya have been arrested in what is billed as the biggest anti-corruption operation in the country.

The employees of Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) are being accused of conspiracy in tax evasion and facilitating access to services through bribery that may have cost the country huge sums of money.

Runaway corruption among state officials in Kenya is the biggest challenge to the administration of President Uhuru Kenyatta.

In what could be the biggest anti-corruption operation at a state agency, the 40 suspects were rounded up over the weekend in the capital Nairobi.

A total of 75 employees of KRA, many of them clerks and supervisors, have been interdicted for aiding individuals and companies evade paying taxes.

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said the suspects will be arraigned in court to face charges of corruption and abuse of office.

The magnitude of the rot at the state agency came to light after months of investigations by undercover sleuths from the investigating agency who were working as interns at KRA headquarters in Nairobi.

The raid at the revenue agency, while seen as a move in the right direction, is a mere drop in the ocean in the fight against corruption in Kenya.

Critics argue the KRA operation may not yield much as long as the anti-corruption war appears to target mainly junior staff while the big fish remain at large.

Kenya’s anti-fraud agency, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, estimates that the country loses about $6bn (£4.6bn) to corruption every year.

Runway graft in the public service remains a big headache to President Uhuru Kenyatta’s second and final term in office.

A famous mosque in South Africa's coastal city of Cape Town has been hit with a noise complaint over its call to worship broadcast during the holy month of Ramadan.

The City of Cape Town tweeted that it had received a complaint about the 100-year-old Muir Street mosque, located in the District 6 suburb, and that it was obliged to investigate.

It, however, said that this will be done after Ramadan, and the call to worship will not be stopped.

The mosque authorities said in a statement that they had been engaging city officials over a "single complaint" and they were going to address it after Ramadan.

The mosque dates back to the arrival of people from the Indian sub-continent who settled in District 6 during the late 1800s, its website says., external

The area was reserved for white people in the 1960s, leading to the evictions of other races and ethnic groups.

Places of worship were, however, spared and the mosque has grown over the decades with properties, expanding its activities, which include a madrassa [religious school].

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's office has finally responded to critics on Twitter who say he has been "missing" from the public scene.

In a series of tweets, the president's spokeswoman, Kanze Dena, said she was shocked by some of the tweets, and Mr Kenyatta is around and has been working:

The hashtags #whereisuhuru and #findpresidentuhuru have been trending on Twitter.

Kenyans on the social media site are claiming that Mr Kenyatta has not been seen since he left for China on 23 April because he is acquiring a Chinese loan to build the standard gauge railway at a cost of millions of dollars.

Some tweeters have poked fun at him:

But the president's spokeswoman said he had not asked China for a loan to build the railway:

Talks between protest leaders in Sudan and the military are set to resume on Monday, in the latest effort to reach agreement on a political transition following the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir last month.

The two sides have disagreed over the composition of a transitional council but the coalition of activists and opposition political groups - known as the Declaration of Freedom and Change - says it hopes to reach an agreement with the military generals within 72 hours.

Protesters are still holding a sit-in outside the military headquarters insisting that the military hands over to a civilian administration.

On Sunday, the Sudanese military dispersed protesters who had blocked a busy street in the capital, Khartoum.

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Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has tweeted that he is happy to share the Golden Boot with two other Africans.

The Gabon forward won the award with two Liverpool stars - Egypt's Mohamed Salah and Senegal's Sadio Mane.

They all finished the season at 22 goals each to share the English Premier League award.

Salah, on the other hand, has tweeted a heartwarming picture of himself looking down at his daughter, jokingly telling her that the Golden Boot he was holding was "a new one".

Salah also won the prize last season.

The Golden Boot, a sculpture of a football boot, is given to the top goal scorer in league matches in the European national league.

The trio's fans have applauded them on Twitter, noting that this is the first time three Africans have been declared joint winners of the Golden Boot:

Read the full BBC story here.

Wael Hussein Al Sayed
BBC News, Cairo

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Every day, Samhi Moustafa makes a gruelling round trip of 200km (125 miles) between his family home near Cairo and Bani Sweif, a province to the south.

On one such journey, he was seriously wounded in a car accident, but knew he had to carry on. His daily ordeal is compulsory for at least the next five years.

Samhi must spend 12 hours a day at a police station - known in Egypt as a supplementary penalty. He has already served a five-year prison sentence, which ended last year.

The 32-year-old journalist was convicted of spreading "false news" and helping the now banned Muslim Brotherhood group during a 2013 sit-in in Cairo to protest the ouster of the elected Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Samhi denies the charges, and says he was just doing his job.

Samhi, who posted a photo of his wrecked car on Twitter, has since been sentenced to one month in jail in absentia for breaking probation conditions the day of his accident.

Read more here

A dual American-Ugandan citizen, Jessica Nabongo, wants to be the first black woman to visit the 195 countries in the world.

She spoke to BBC Newsday’s Shaimaa Khalil: