Ethiopia asks the WHO to investigate Tedros
Uganda to destroy 400,000 unused Covid jabs
Fake general accused of forging Buhari's signature
SA schoolboy guns down classmate and kills himself
Malawi medics decry shortage of labour anaesthetic
UN chief calls for acceptable Mali election timeline
Covid: Rwanda lifts ban on concerts
Nigeria arrests four people over alleged cannibalism
Zimbabwe president temporarily hands power to deputy
DR Congo expels Rwandans escaping Covid jabs
108 civilians killed in Ethiopia airstrikes - UN
Ethiopia asks WHO to investigate body's chief
Ghanaians mock president's meeting with US rappers
Suspected Islamists kill three in Mozambique - reports
Protests in Tunisia on anniversary of Ben Ali's fall
Thousands march to back Mali's military leaders
Senegal have triumphed 1-0 over Zimbabwe with a penalty in extra time in their first group match at the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.
Sadio Mané delivered the blow in the 96th minute, after Kelvin Madzongwe was sanctioned for touching the ball with his arm.
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Israel Campos
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At least 17 people have been arrested in Angola's capital Luanda amid a strike by taxi drivers demanding better roads and the easing of Covid restrictions.
The police accused demonstrators of "acts of vandalism" - including setting fire to a bus, car tyres, and vandalising a building belonging to the ruling MPLA party, external.
Francisco Paciente, the head of the taxi union Associação da Nova Aliança dos Taxistas de Angola, has already distanced his organisation from those acts, and vowed to continue the strike until a deal is reached with the authorities.
Angola's lean public transport system means that taxis, also known as "candongueiros", are the main means of transport for most people.
A key grievance for taxi drivers are Angola's coronavirus measures limiting the number of passengers they can carry.
Image source, AFPPassenger limits are being enforced to curb the spread of coronavirus (archive photo)
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Libyan security forces have violently broken up a sit-in by migrants protesting outside a former UN community centre in Tripoli.
More than 600 people were arrested in the raid early this morning - they've been sent to a nearby detention centre.
Many of the protesters, some of them women and children, had been camped outside the building since October following a big clampdown on migrants.
An aid group, the Norwegian Refugee Council, says some of those arrested were injured, with one suffering from a gunshot wound. It's demanded that the migrants be released.
Burkina Faso captain Bertrand Traore says a lack of experience and poor game management cost his side against Cameroon.
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Image source, ReutersMore than 97% of Kenyans identify with a religion, according to Pew Research
A group of Kenyan atheists is offering medical and funeral cover in a drive to register new members.
The Atheists In Kenya Society (AIK) suffered a blow recently when its national secretary resigned after becoming a Christian.
The society is now asking anyone who is "an atheist, agnostic, free thinker, humanist or sceptic" to register for membership on its website and pay a fee to qualify for the medical and funeral cover.
More than 97% of Kenyans identify with a religion, according to Pew Research.
AIK is commonly featured in local news for its views on different issues that touch on religion.
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Image source, ReutersPolice say 86 people were arrested during Sunday's unrest
Doctors say two people have died and dozens others were injured on Sunday in Sudan's capital Khartoum, in the latest round of demonstrations against October's military coup.
One was hit on the head by a tear gas cannister and died from a brain haemorrhage, while another died after being struck in the neck by a tear gas cannister.
A doctors' organisation allied to the protest movement, called the Central Doctors’ Committee, says 63 people have now been killed since the coup.
Police in Sudan say 86 people were arrested during Sunday's unrest. The official Sudanese news agency described those arrested as "unruly protesters".
The United Nations says it is trying to start talks in Sudan to resolve the political crisis and ensure there is a transition to democracy.
At the start of January, Abdalla Hamdok resigned as civilian prime minister amid continuing friction between the military and pro-democracy campaigners.
Mercy Juma
BBC News, Nairobi
Image source, ReutersThousands of Ethiopian migrants leave their country every year in search of work
Police in Kenya have arrested 91 people believed to be Ethiopian nationals suspected to be in the country illegally.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) says the group was arrested at a house in Kitengela, outside Nairobi, on Sunday evening.
All are men below the age of 25, and had attempted to break out of the house where they were being held.
On Twitter, the DCI said they are believed to have been smuggled into the country onboard a lorry and were being held in the house temporarily as the smugglers sought means to sneak them to another country.
Police are searching for the persons who brought them in.
Undocumented Ethiopians are routinely arrested in Kenya every year after arriving to look for jobs or in transit to other countries.
In October, police arrested 14 Ethiopian nationals, four adults and 10 children, suspected to be in Kenya illegally.
Congolese media are reporting that journalist and academic Samuel Sirasi, who had gone missing last week, has been found alive but unwell.
Members of DR Congo National Press Union want the authorities to grant him protection and find the culprits, external, reports news site DRC Actu.
The Beni-based journalist went missing in the eastern city of Goma on 4 January, and was found at the weekend near a church in Goma's Karisimbi district. Locals gave him first aid and alerted organisations that had launched a search for him.
Mr Sirasi's health was in "very critical condition" at that point, his colleague Jaribu Muliwavyo at the Semuliki University of Beni is quoted as saying.
The journalist is currently being treated at an undisclosed hospital, according to Congolese media reports.
Image source, Getty ImagesGovernment forces have been fighting rebels in this part of Ethiopia for more than a year
Aid agencies have suspended operations in a zone of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region where dozens of people were killed in an air strike, the UN says.
"The ongoing threats of drone strikes" left them little choice but to halt activities, the UN’s humanitarian agency Ocha has said.
It came as the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) spokesman, Getachew Reda, accused Eritrea of launching fresh attacks against the group’s fighters. It has not responded to the accusations.
Ethiopian government forces, bolstered by Eritrean troops, have been fighting rebels in Tigray for more than a year in a war that has killed thousands of people.
Jose Tembe
BBC News, Maputo
Five people have been killed and 15 others seriously injured after heavy rains accompanied by strong winds, thunderstorms and lightning left a trail of destruction in Mozambique’s southern Gaza province.
The dead are victims of lightning strikes, said Bonifacio Cardoso, the spokesperson of Mozambique’s National Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management in the area.
He asked people to take precautionary measures including by staying indoors during thunderstorms.
The heavy rains that lasted for 24 hours over the weekend also destroyed 5,000 houses and six health centres have been partially submerged, he said.
It is estimated that more than 394,000 people could be affected by floods in the province in the current rainy and cyclone season, which runs until the end of March.
The Mozambican disaster agency has already deployed teams to the area with boats, foodstuff, tents and blankets in readiness for the expected flooding.
Schools in Uganda have fully reopened this morning, almost two years after the coronavirus pandemic started.
This has been one of the world's longest closures since the virus forced governments to close learning institutions back in March 2020.
Students will be promoted to the next class and there will be targeted work to give them a chance to catch up.
Uganda’s national planning authority projected that at least 30% of all students who were in school before the pandemic may never return.
Here are some photos of the first day in school taken by the BBC's Patience Atuhaire in Kampala:
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The rebels in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region have accused neighbouring Eritrea of carrying out attacks.
The Tigray People Liberation Front's spokesperson, Getachew Reda tweeted that fresh attacks had been launched against the group's forces.
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This comes days after the rebels withdrew from neighbouring regions and the Ethiopian military said it would not pursue them to their region in Tigray.
Eritrea's President Isaias Afwerki told state media over the weekend that his troops would prevent any attack on Eritrea as well as any threats to Ethiopia's stability.
Eritrean troops had been fighting alongside Ethiopia in the war against the Tigrayan rebels which broke out in November 2020. The war has since morphed into a brutal civil war.
Neither Eritrea nor the Ethiopian government has responded to the latest accusation by the rebels.
Naomi Scherbel-Ball
BBC News
Image source, ReutersMali’s military rulers plan to delay elections by three years
West African leaders have imposed sanctions on Mali after the country’s military government announced a long delay to the elections originally planned for February.
The West African regional bloc, Ecowas, which met in Accra on Sunday, agreed to close borders with Mali as well as implement a range of economic sanctions.
Mali's military government in response said that it was closing its land and air borders with Ecowas and recalling its ambassadors from member states.
In a statement, the junta said it "strongly" condemned "illegal" sanctions imposed on the country.
West African leaders have been calling for a return to civilian rule since a group of army officers toppled President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta following street protests in August 2020.
Mali’s military rulers now say elections could take place in December 2025 instead of February 2022 as originally agreed - a delay the West African bloc deems unacceptable.
Sanctions have been seen to be effective in the past, but a second coup last year forced out the interim civilian government, testing the resolve of regional leaders pushing for reform.
Our African proverb of the day:
Quote MessageWhen you carry your own water you know its value."
A Twi proverb sent by Emmanuel Gakpe in Ghana.
