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Sudan's state prosecutors have charged ousted President Omar al-Bashir with corruption.

Reuters news agency reports that they said it came after completing their investigation into the 75-year-old politician.

He was ousted in a coup after nearly 30 years in power at the beginning of April following mass protests and a sit-in at the military headquarters.

He has since been detained at Kobar maximum security prison in the capital, Khartoum.

He is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), accused of organising war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan's Darfur region - which he denies.

Read: Sudan crisis: What you need to know

Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo

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A group of gunmen from Mozambique’s main opposition party, the former rebel Renamo movement, have threatened to kill party leader Ossufo Momade if he refuses to resign.

A video circulating on the internet shows a Renamo commander, Mariano Nhungue Chissinga, surrounded by men in civilian clothes holding AK-47 assault rifles.

In the video he says that since Mr Momade was chosen to succeed Afonso Dhlakama, the veteran Renamo leader who died last year, there has been unwarranted persecutions within the movement.

He accused Mr Momade of being a government spy and said they would choose a new leader.

Renamo spokesperson Jose Manteigas rejected the video, saying that the person seen in the recording was a party deserter.

The government and Renamo have had a fractious relationship since the end of the civil war in 1992, and a definitive peace agreement is expected to be signed later in the year.

Male MPs in Kenya have been accused of mocking their female counterparts in parliament after Rashid Kassim allegedly slapped his female colleague Fatuma Gedi.

He was reportedly angry that Ms Gedi, a member of the budget committee, had not allocated money to his constituency.

"Some of our male colleagues started mocking us and saying it was slapping day," MP Sabina Wanjiru Chege told BBC Focus on Africa.

She added that they said "women needed to have manners" and "we need to know how to treat men".

Female MPs subsequently walked out of parliament, demanding the arrest of the male MP, who was subsequently arrested.

This is a video of the commotion in parliament:

Mr Kassim has not commented about the incident.

"We are all members of parliament… we are no lesser than them," said Ms Wanjiru Chege, referring to her male counterparts.

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The authorities in Uganda have repatriated the relatives of two people who died after contracting Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

One member of the family - a five-year-old boy - died on Tuesday, becoming the first victim of Ebola in Uganda.

His grandmother has since succumbed to the disease.

Other family members had been under quarantine in the western province of Kasese before their repatriation.

A three-year-old sibling confirmed to have the disease was among those sent back. They were repatriated at the family's request, Uganda's health ministry says.

There have been more than 2,000 cases of Ebola in eastern DR Congo since the outbreak began there last August.

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Kennedy Gondwe
BBC News, Lusaka

Barclays in Zambia has had $400,000 (£315,392) stolen from a branch in one of the biggest bank heists in the country.

The cash was stolen from the bank's Long Acres branch in the capital, Lusaka.

Barclays says it suspects an employee, who is currently on the run, of being behind the robbery.

The circumstances of the theft are not clear, but it is believed that the robber had keys to the vault.

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The Democratic Republic of Congo's constitutional court has disqualified 23 opposition MPs who were elected in December.

The BBC's Gaius Kowene in the capital, Kinshasa, says a total 33 MPs were invalidated by the court.

It did not disclose its reasons, but the court is meant to make judgements on votes recounted after complaints, our correspondent reports.

Bloomberg News reports that, external six out of the nine judges that made the decision were nominated while former President Joseph Kabila was in power.

It adds that the opposition alliance, known as Lamuka, has suspended its participation in parliament, saying that the rule of law has been "assassinated".

In January, opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi was sworn in after winning the presidential election.

At the time he denied accusations that the election was fixed and that he had made a power-sharing deal with the outgoing president.

Kenyan MP Rashid Kassim has been arrested over an alleged assault of colleague Fatuma Gedi, who sits on the budget committee.

Ms Gedi accused Mr Kassim of slapping her in the car park of the parliament building in the capital, Nairobi, after confronting her about why she had not allocated money to his constituency, Wajir East, in the budget.

Tweeters have been sharing a photo of Ms Gedi showing her with blood in her mouth after the alleged assault:

Female MPs subsequently walked out of parliament in protest:

Mr Kassim has not commented on the accusation.

Eritrea's government has hit back at a group of more than 100 African writers and intellectuals who penned a critical letter calling for the country to enact some reforms.

In a message on Twitter, Information Minister Yemane Gebre Meskel said people should "come and see" the country.

"Eritrea is open to all those with genuine interest in understanding the country, its people and its leadership."

A longer piece on the Ministry of Information website, external lays into the intellectuals.

It calls them "a motley network of African writers and journalists" and goes on to question their credibility saying "some of the individuals in the list have murky associations with certain powers".

The authors included Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, US-Ethiopian writer Maaza Mengiste and Kenyan anti-corruption campaigner John Githongo.

Eritrea says that it is not a closed country and that people have been detained for good reason not arbitrarily as the writers to the letter suggest.

Kenya's interior ministry has ordered the deportation of seven Chinese nationals who are described as having "flagrantly flouted immigration rules".

This comes after a public tip-off that they were working at a large second-hand clothes market in the capital, Nairobi, without the right paperwork, a statement says.

Officers found that three of the Chinese people had no valid work permits and the other four were doing work unauthorised by their work permits.

"Kenya welcomes and values foreigners who invest, work and visit our country and will continue to support those who... adhere to our immigration and labour laws," the statement says.

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Algeria’s Supreme Court has detained former Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal over allegations of corruption, Reuters news agency reports state TV as saying.

On Wednesday the same court had ordered the detention of another former prime minister, Ahmed Ouyahia, as we reported earlier.

Former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was forced to resign in April after weeks of street protests.

Now senior officials and rich businessmen who prospered during his time in power are being questioned in corruption inquiries.

A Tanzanian man who built a small power station, which has supplied his village with electricity for nearly three decades, received a $12,000 (£9,400) prize in recognition of his work when he met President John Magufuli.

John Mwafute, who was only educated up to primary school level, used a local river in southern Tanzania to create a hydropower station. Initially, he taught himself how to do it through trial and error and then got help from a German NGO.

Mr Mwafute was nicknamed Pwagu, which can be translated as "dreamer".

On meeting the inventor, President Magufuli said the country should value its talents.

But he also chose to criticise the state-owned electricity company, Tanesco, for not assisting small-scale suppliers like Mr Mwafute.

"Pwagu has produce electricity since the 1980s and Tanesco has done nothing to help up to this day," the president said.

Mr Magufuli ordered Tanesco to support him.

In Tanzania, less than half of households are connected to the electricity grid.

The BBC met Mr Mwafute in 2017:

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Kenyan marathon runner Felix Kirwa has been suspended from competition for nine months after testing positive for the banned substance strychnine.

The 2016 Singapore Marathon winner - banned until 14 November - said he had taken herbal medicines which included the stimulant.

He has been stripped of his second place at the 2018 Singapore Marathon.

Around 50 Kenyan athletes have been sanctioned for doping violations in the past five years.

Read more on the BBC Sport website.

Leocadia Bongben
BBC Pidgin, Yaounde

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Cameroon has set a target of 120 days to contain polio outbreak, with plans to vaccinate 122,225 children under five years old.

In May the Ministry of Health announced that a wild polio virus was found in Mada and Makari health districts in northern Cameroon.

Laboratory results indicate that it was similar to one found in Nigeria in 2018, says the World Health Organization.

The WHO has said the situation is critical.

To contain the polio virus, Cameroon has set vaccination days and health workers are going door to door informing people.

What is polio?

• Polio, or poliomyelitis, mainly affects children aged under five
• It is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours
• Initial symptoms include fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, stiffness of the neck and pains in the limbs
• One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis. Among those paralysed, 5% to 10% die when their breathing muscles become immobilised.

A British TV presenter Stacey Dooley has written a new response to the Comic Relief "white saviours" row, saying her intentions were never "sinister".

She's been criticised for making a film in Uganda, and posting a picture on Instagram of her with a black child:

Dooley says she understands the conversation, but the people she filmed with were happy with her behaviour.

She wrote on Instagram: "I understand the wider conversation that people want to have, and I understand that some are saying they feel it's a tired narrative... I get that.

"What is not OK is people making out like we were somehow sinister in our approach."

Read more on the BBC News website.

Zawadi Mudibo
BBC Africa, Nairobi

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As the finance ministers from four East African countries prepare to announce their spending plans for the next year, the problem of how to raise more money for government spending will be on their minds.

Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda always announce their budgets on the same day at the same time each year.

Kenya is by far the biggest spender in the region. The government's estimated budget of $30.2bn (£23.8bn) is larger than all of the other countries in the region combined.

But it isn't raising enough money from taxation.

Last December, the government's budget deficit was $600m.

So how can Finance Minister Henry Rotich close the gap?

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) "needs to widen the tax base", senior tax partner at Ernst & Young Francis Kamau has told the BBC.

In other words more people need to pay tax.

But "we do not anticipate that the KRA will be able to seal the deficits soon unless drastic measures are taken and effectively implemented" he added.

One thing that could be targeted is the money wasted through corruption.

But to raise extra money, Mr Rotich could be looking at how to tax the growing e-commerce sector effectively as well as more taxes on the gaming and betting industries.

A pride of lions has been caught on camera prowling around a copper mine in Limpopo, South Africa:

This specific pride has been spotted by locals for nearly 30 years, News 24 quotes the editor of Far North Bulletin Joe Dreyer as saying.

He explains on the news site that the pride comes close to the mine at least once a year to hunt buffalo in the nearby river.

Sudan has summoned the UK ambassador in Khartoum, Irfan Siddiq, in protest against UK government's statements regarding the crisis in the country, Sudan’s state news agency (Suna) reported.

Britain's ambassador, Irfan Siddiq, tweeted last week his concerns about the security forces after attempts to disperse Sudan’s protest sit-in:

Reuters news agency says that the spokesman of Sudan’s foreign ministry said to Suna that the ministry protests the repeated tweets of the ambassador, and that it contradicts "the established diplomatic norms".

Doctors say 118 people have died in the recent outbreak of violence, while officials say there were fewer fatalities – putting the number at 61.

The security forces shot protesters who are demanding the military hand power over to a civilian-led government.

The military took over in April when long-time President Omar al-Bashir was ousted.