It follows a wave of prison breaks over the past year in which more than 5,000 inmates have escaped.

Guinea reach the last 16 at the Africa Cup of Nations despite losing 2-1 to Zimbabwe as referee Salima Mukansanga makes history.

Senegal finish top of Group B at the Africa Cup of Nations despite being held to a 0-0 draw by Malawi in Bafoussam.

That's all for now from the BBC Africa Live team until Wednesday morning.

There will be an automated news feed until then. You can also get the latest news from our website or listen to the Africa Today podcast.

Here's a reminder of Tuesday's wise words:

Click here to send us your African proverbs.

We leave you with a photo of a football fan at the match between Guinea and Zimbabwe at the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon's capital Yaoundé:

Image source, Reuters

A recruitment drive in Nairobi has enabled Kenyans to fill hospitality jobs in the Channel Islands.

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

At least four people have been killed and 10 others injured in a suicide bombing in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.

This happened at a restaurant near a Turkish military base where local soldiers are trained.

It is the third suicide bombing in the capital this month.

Militant Islamist group al-Shabab said it carried out the attack, and was targeting soldiers.

With an election process due to conclude next month, there is also a great deal of political tension in Somalia.

This has affected the security sector, and al-Shabab appears to be taking advantage of this to carry out attacks.

Two days ago Somalia's government spokesman, Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimu, was injured in a suicide attack on his vehicle.

Tunisia could be without 12 players for their pivotal Africa Cup of Nations Group F game against The Gambia because of coronavirus.

The Confederation of African Football meet to discuss the poor state of the pitch in Douala and whether Afcon matches may need to be moved from the arena.

BBC World Service

Image source, AFP

People in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, have shuttered shops and barricaded streets in response to a call for two days of civil disobedience.

The call was made after seven pro-democracy protesters were killed by security forces on Monday.

Police have once again fired tear gas at some of those setting up roadblocks.

Sudan's University for Science and Technology said it had suspended all activities.

More than 70 people have been killed since demonstrations began after October's coup.

After Monday's deaths the UN and the US embassy criticised the violent tactics of the Sudanese security forces.

The police said 50 officers were injured.

Sudan's ruling military council said it would establish an anti-terrorism force to counter what it described as "potential threats".

Ishaq Khalid
BBC News, Abuja

Nigeria's interior minister has ordered prison guards across the country to shoot and kill anyone who attempts a jailbreak.

Over the last year armed groups have attacked various correctional facilities, enabling more than 5,000 inmates to escape.

A number of prison guards and detainees have also been killed.

During a visit to the southern city of Ibadan, Rauf Aregbesola told prison staff that they should not shoot to injure but should instead shoot to kill.

Image source, Nigeria ministry of interior

Rights activists have expressed concern that the new policy may be abused by the security forces.

Nigeria's extremely slow judicial system means that about three quarters of almost 70,000 inmates are awaiting trial.

The interior minister said this was partly responsible for the frequent jailbreaks.

Marcia Veiga
BBC News

Angola's government has warned that secondary schoolchildren above the age of 12 will be barred from classrooms from next month if they have not taken at least one dose of a vaccine aimed at preventing the spread of Covid-19.

“If accessibility is the issue, mobile clinics will be available outside the school premise,” said Narciso Benedito, a senior education official in the provincial government in the capital, Luanda.

Teachers without booster shots in secondary schools would also be denied entry, he told the BBC.

Schools reopened on 17 January, instead of 3 January.

The government launched a vaccination campaign for children in early December.

Only 13% of Angola’s population is fully vaccinated against coronavirus, according to Our World in Data, external.

Tesfalem Araia
BBC Tigrinya

Image source, Henpas Entertainment

Eritreans in the diaspora have raised nearly 700,000 Canadian dollars ($560,000, £410,000) within a day of launching a fundraising campaign for a man back home to get treatment abroad for a rare form of blood cancer.

The money for Yonas Tsegay was raised through a GoFundMe appeal started by Canada-based Eritrean Mebrahtu Hidray.

In a video linked to the campaign, Mr Yonas and his family, who live in a village south of Eritrea's capital, Asmara, describe their circumstances.

The recording shows he is clearly in pain. His wife, surrounded by their six young children, says he has had the disease for a year now.

The authorities told him to seek medical treatment abroad but his family is unable to afford this, she says.

Some days the children have to stay home from school to help their parents.

With the help of Eritrea-based YouTube channel Henpas Entertainment, the family decided to seek help through GoFundMe - and Eritreans in the diaspora responded immediately.

In the first 12 hours, more than 350,000 Canadian dollars were raised. The target of 400,000 Canadian dollars was surpassed, and a new target of 600,000 Canadian dollars was set. That amount too has now been surpassed, with 676,533 Canadian dollars raised following 11,800 donations.

Yosief Werke - who was among those involved in the fundraising effort - told BBC Tigrinya he had never seen such a response. He said many people were touched by Mr Yonas's plea for help.

He suffers from Hodgkin lymphoma, which is described by the UK National Health Service (NHS) as an “uncommon” blood cancer that “can usually be treated successfully with chemotherapy alone, or chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy”.

The most common symptoms include a painless swelling in a lymph node, usually in the neck, armpit or groin.

Defender Roberto Lopes says he will find it hard to sleep while Cape Verde face an anxious wait to find out if they will remain in the Africa Cup of Nations.

BBC World Service

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it is profoundly concerned over the lack of medicine and medical equipment in northern Ethiopia, where a conflict has been fought for more than a year.

The ICRC says in Amhara and Afar regions people with chronic diseases are dying every day and women are giving birth at home, as health facilities are not functional.

Many are without electricity or water and some have closed for lack of supplies.

The ICRC says the ability to deliver humanitarian assistance is seriously hampered by a combination of fighting, insecurity and restrictions.

BBC World Service

The trial of the Nigerian separatist leader, Nnamdi Kanu, has been adjourned until Wednesday after the state filed new charges.

Mr Kanu has in the past pleaded not guilty to seven charges including terrorism and treason.

He heads the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), which the government says was behind a string of attacks last year on police stations and government offices in the south-east of Nigeria.

The group denies any involvement in the violence. His lawyer described the amended charge sheet as an abuse of the legal process designed to delay the trial and keep his client in in detention.

Samba Cyuzuzo
BBC Great Lakes

Image source, FIFA

An all-women team are set to make history at the Africa Cup of Nations when they officiate in the Group B game between Zimbabwe and Guinea.

Rwanda's Salima Mukansanga will be the first female main referee to ever officiate at a game in this tournament.

She will be assisted by Carine Atemzabong (Cameroon), Fatiha Jermoumi (Maroc) and VAR referee Bouchra Karboubi (Maroc).

“Everyone here is eager to see this game, especially with this new history being written,” says the BBC’s Yves Bucyana in Cameroon's capital, Yaoundé.

On 10 January, Mukansanga became the first woman to officiate at a game in the tournament when she was the fourth official in the game between Guinea and Malawi.

The nurse turned football referee has been trending on social media back home in Rwanda.

Eddy Maillet, head of referees at the Confederation of African Football (Caf), has described the upcoming game as a “historic moment”.

“We know that for a woman, she has had to overcome serious obstacles to reach this level and she deserves a lot of credit,” Caf online quoted him as saying.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled what one of his media aides has dubbed the "world’s largest rice pyramids" - made with one million bags of rice - in the capital, Abuja.

The temporary "rice pyramids" were aimed at showcasing the government's efforts to boost rice production, and to make Nigeria - Africa most populous state - self-sufficient in food.

It was one of the main electoral pledges that Mr Buhari made when he took office in 2015.

Mr Buhari's media aide Bashir Ahmed tweeted that the initiative has led to a sharp reduction of Nigeria's annual rice import bill - from $1.5bn (£1.1bn) in 2015 to $18.5m, external.

The bags of rice for the pyramids were collected from farmers across Nigeria, whose efforts to increase production received financial backing from the central bank in a scheme known as the Anchor Borrowers' Programme.

“As a critical policy of the government, the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme is expected to catalyse the agricultural productive base of the nation, which is a major part of our economic plan to uplift the economy, create jobs, reduce reliance on imported food and industrial raw materials, and conserve foreign exchange,” Mr Buhari was quoted by local media as saying at the event.

While Mr Ahmed said the "world's largest rice pyramids" had been unveiled, the central bank preferred to call them "mega rice pyramids":

Earlier, a senior official of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, Shehu Muazu, warned that immediately after the unveiling of the "pyramids", the bags of rice would be allocated to processors, and sold at a discounted price.

“This will lead to drastic reduction in price, external once it starts rolling into the market," he was quoted as saying.

Ferdinand Omondi
BBC News, Nairobi

At least 20 dead bodies have been retrieved from a river in western Kenya in recent weeks, according to a human rights group.

Haki Africa told the BBC that most of the bodies recovered from River Yala, which flows into Lake Victoria, were found in sacks, some tied up and others mutilated.

Haki Africa's Executive Director Hussein Khalid added that the local mortuary was receiving the unidentified bodies and had buried nine of them in a mass grave to make space for more bodies.

Locals say the bodies are dumped into the river at night by unidentified people.

Mr Khalid and another activist, Boniface Mwangi, travelled to the scene, and say they saw two bodies floating on the river.

Mr Mwangi tweeted footage from the area where they were found:

Kenyans online have expressed shock at the discovery of the bodies.

BBC World Service

A Tunisian military court has ordered the release of two detained opposition politicians.

Seifeddine Makhlouf, the leader of the conservative Karama Party, was arrested in September with a party colleague, Nidhal Saudi, on charges of assaulting policemen.

Lawyers say Mr Makhlouf is being freed under judicial supervision and is expected to leave prison shortly.

The Islamist politician is a fierce critic of Tunisia's president, Kais Saied, who suspended parliament and sacked the government last July, arresting several senior politicians.

Human rights groups have criticised the use of military courts to hear cases.

Many opposition figures have described the president's power grab as a coup, and it has prompted mass protests across the country.

Jose Tembe
BBC News, Maputo

Mozambique military forces say they have captured a jihadist leader, a Tanzanian citizen, in Nangade district in the northern Cabo Delgado province.

The 39-year-old leader, known as Ali, was captured alongside six other Islamic State group-linked insurgents, military officials say.

He is said to have been one of the militant leaders whose task was to recruit fighters and direct attacks.

His capture comes amid a deteriorating security situation in the district, with a series of jihadist attacks in recent days.

In about two weeks, the insurgents have attacked seven villages in Nangade, according to media reports.

The latest attack happened in Limualamuala village on Saturday and resulted in the deaths of six people who had been attending an initiation rites ceremony.