About 30 people have been killed and 50 others wounded when two buses collided in central Chad, the transport ministry has said, AFP news agency reports.
The accident occurred overnight on Sunday when a passenger bus from the capital N'Djamena crashed with a bus from Abeche, the country's third-largest town, the ministry added in a statement.
Eritrean cyclist Natnael Tesfatsion wins the Tour du Rwanda for the second time, holding off the chasing pack in Sunday's final stage in Kigali.
Read MoreA Sudanese fitness trainer has taken to Instagram to capture his ordeal in trying to escape the conflict in Ukraine.
Ali al-Haj began documenting his updates, external when the invasion started last week.
Al-Haj said there are around 140 Sudanese students stranded in Kharkiv, where he was based, with no contact with the outside world.
His video clips document his journey from Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine to Lviv on the Ukrainian-Polish borders.
Al-Haj appears to be critical of the lack of response of the Sudanese embassy in Kyiv. He said he tried calling the embassy or contacting its staff on several occasions but there was no one available.
One of his clips was filmed in an underground bunker, another clip was filmed on a train heading to Kyiv, and another one was filmed in Lviv train station where he waited in the hope of boarding a train for Poland.
His last update was on Sunday. He captures a long queue of cars and people walking with their luggage as it snowed.
Al-Haj said he had walked for five kilometres that morning in temperatures of -11 degrees Celsius. He said the nearest place with amenities was 15km away, and appealed for help from international aid agencies.
Al-Haj added that the Ukrainian authorities were blocking foreigners from crossing into Poland giving priority to Ukrainians.
Ishaq Khalid
BBC News, Abuja
Dozens of Nigerians have protested outside the Russian embassy in Nigeria's capital Abuja, calling for an end to the invasion of Ukraine.
They chanted ‘’We need peace in Ukraine’’, while carrying placards calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end Russia's military operation there.
Some of the demonstrators also raised concern about the plight of Nigerians - mostly students - stranded in Ukraine.
Earlier, the Nigerian government condemned the treatment of Nigerians and other Africans by Ukrainian guards on the border with Poland, where Africans complained of discrimination and of being prevented from crossing over.
The Nigerian government also said it supports diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.
Nichola Mandil
BBC News, Juba
South Sudan’s health ministry has said the country is witnessing a sharp decrease in Covid-19 cases and attributed this to the vaccination campaign in the country.
Last week, there were only 30 cases confirmed countrywide.
The Covid vaccines are now available in 515 health facilities spread across South Sudan's 10 states.
Habtom Weldeyowhannes
BBC Tigrinya
Eritrean cyclist Natnael Tesfatsion has told BBC Tigrinya that he is "very delighted" to have won the 14th edition of Tour du Rwanda on Sunday.
The cyclist, who is a member of Drone hopper Androni Giocattoli, has won the tournament for a second time. His first title was in 2020.
Around 95 cyclists in 19 teams and national teams participated in the week-long race.
Eritrea's national team could not take part this year because of a lack of Covid vaccinations. Eritrea is the only country in Africa that has not started vaccinating to its population.
Image source, Getty ImagesSouth Africa and Russia have strong economic ties
South African news outlets are reporting sharp differences between President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor over Russia's military incursion into Ukraine.
News 24 reported (paywall) that Ms Pandor "raised the ire" of Mr Ramaphosa , externalafter her department issued a statement calling for Russia's immediate withdrawal from Ukraine.
It quoted unnamed insiders as saying that he insisted that the South African government would not take sides in the war.
The news site added that the governing African National Congress' international relations subcommittee is expected to throw the book at Mr Pandor during a meeting on Monday.
The Sunday Times reported that the president was "unhappy", external about the strongly worded statement, with sources close to him claiming it “contradicts” SA’s position.
“The president did not see the statement before it was issued and does not agree with it. There are people within Dirco [Department of International Relations and Cooperation] with an agenda that we must be enemies with Russia," the Sunday Times quoted an unnamed source as saying.
Ms Pandor’s spokesman Lunga Ngqengelele told the paper he was unaware of the president being unhappy about the statement, and the call for the withdrawal of troops was to "give a chance for negotiations to take place".
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The militant Islamic State in West Africa Province (Iswap) group has killed at least 13 people in several attacks on villages in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Borno, reports say.
The raids on four villages took place within 48 hours.
Villagers told local media that the attackers also abducted several young men.
Ishaq Khalid
BBC News, Abuja
The Nigerian ambassador to Romania has told the BBC that so far about 200 Nigerians - many of them students - have arrived in the capital Bucharest from Ukraine.
Safiya Nuhu said the group had been "well-received", and were staying in hotels after fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The envoy said many more were arriving. Several thousands Nigerians live in Ukraine.
Nigeria’s ministry of foreign affairs had advised Nigerians leaving Ukraine to try to cross through the Hungarian and Romanian borders following difficulties at the Poland border.
A number of Africans have complained of racism at the Ukraine-Poland border.
Nigeria’s foreign affairs minister Geofrey Onyeama said he had spoken with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba about the issue and he was assured that Ukrainian border guards had been given orders to allow all foreigners leaving Ukraine to pass without restrictions.
Image source, AFPNigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed displeasure at reported incidents of the mistreatment of some Nigerian nationals attempting to flee Ukraine.
A total of 4,000 Nigerian citizens are still stranded in Ukraine.
In a statement on Twitter, external, the president's office said Ukrainian police and security personnel had reportedly refused to allow Nigerians to board buses and trains heading towards the Ukraine-Poland border.
"One group of Nigerian students having been repeatedly refused entry into Poland have concluded they have no choice but to travel again across Ukraine and attempt to exit the country via the border with Hungary," the statement said.
Mr Buhari's office said all foreign nationals trying to cross over to Poland should be "treated with dignity and without favour".
"All who flee a conflict situation have the same right to safe passage under UN Convention and the colour of their passport or their skin should make no difference," the statement said.
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Image source, AFPGuillaume Soro lives in France
Ivory Coast's former parliament Speaker, Guillaume Soro, has denied the discovery of weapons at his residence in Bouake city in the north.
Mr Soro has been in exile in Europe since 2019.
His communication director, Toure Moussa, said the former speaker had not stayed in this residence for several years.
The latest discovery comes after that of 2017, when a cache of weapons was found at the home of his chief of protocol Souleymane Kamarate Kone.
According to Guillaume Soro's camp, the news is part of a strategy to manipulate the Ivorian citizens.
Mr Soro was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia in June 2021, on charges of plotting a coup against President Alassane Ouattara.
Activists say the Nationality and Borders Bill will add to trauma faced by LGBTQ+ asylum seekers.
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Aboubakar Famau
BBC News, Tanzania
Image source, Getty ImagesThe white beaches in Zanzibar are a draw to tourists
Some 1,000 Ukrainian tourists are stranded in Tanzania's semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar after the Ukrainian airspace was closed to civilian flights following Russia's military action in the country.
Zanzibar's government says it is liaising with the Ukrainian embassy in neighbouring Kenya to evacuate the tourists to Poland.
Tourism Minister Leila Mohammed Musa said the safety and well-being of tourists was being looked at.
Some hotels where the tourists are staying have reduced their rates, while others are offering free accommodation to guests who have overstayed.
In a strange twist of fate, one of the hotel managers where the Ukrainians are staying is from Russia.
"I feel completely responsible for my Ukranian guests, because my president is the one who started military invasion in their country," said Yulia Baystrukova, who runs the Zanzi Resort.
She said that some Ukranians guests were unhappy with her because of her Russian origin.
"There were guests who didn’t want to speak Russian with me. They were speaking English. I did my best to make their stay nice by giving them complimentary things like desserts, to somehow make them feel a little bit better, because you can't make a person better if there’s war going on back home."
Zanzibar's coastal scenery and historical culture is a big draw for foreign tourists.
One of the tourists told the BBC that they had been following events in Ukraine from their hotels.
They were optimistic of being evacuated nearer home at the earliest opportunity.
Ukraine closed its airspace last week citing a high risk to flight safety.
Shingai Nyoka
BBC News, Harare
Image source, AFPAt least one person was killed and 17 others injured in skirmishes at an opposition party rally in Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, on Sunday.
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters were attacked by a group of men armed with spears, machetes, iron bars and stones.
One man was stabbed to death, others suffered broken bones and various injuries, according to party officials.
Police said 16 people had been arrested in connection with the violence, which left three people seriously injured.
The violence forced party leader Nelson Chamisa to abandon his address.
The party blamed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s supporters for the violence, a charge the ruling party rejected.
It comes as rights groups warn of increasing violence ahead of crucial by-elections scheduled for 26 March.
Rights groups have warned of inflammatory language in the campaigns.
Over the weekend the country’s vice-president warned that the opposition would be crushed like lice, sparking fears of new violence.
On Saturday police used teargas and water cannons to disperse another CCC rally that had been okayed by the High Court.
Some 28 parliamentary and 122 council seats are up for grabs. The by-elections are seen as a test for the ruling Zanu-PF party ahead of general elections scheduled for 2023.
The pre-election period has already been marred by claims of anomalies in the voters’ roll, of a partisan police and media bias.
Image source, AFPAlgerian gas accounts for about 11% of Europe's gas imports
Algeria's state firm is ready to supply additional gas to the EU from its surplus, the company's boss has said.
This is in case of a decline in gas supplies due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Sonatrach CEO Toufik Hakkar said the unmet capacity at the Transmed pipeline linking Algeria to Italy could be used to increase supply.
Algerian gas accounts for about 11% of Europe's gas imports.
The US had reached out to Algeria and other countries for gas supply alternatives in case the Russian invasion leads to low supplies to Europe.
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Ukraine conflict: How reliant is Europe on Russia for oil and gas?
Emery Makumeno
BBC News, Kinshasa
Image source, AFPBoats on the Congo River, like this one pictured, are often overcrowded
One person has been reported dead and 11 others severely burnt after a vessel caught fire at a port on the Congo River, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Interior Minister, Didier Tenge, told a local radio station that the Sunday accident happened around 13:00 local time at the Ngafura Port, in the outskirts of the capital, Kinshasa.
The vessel was loaded with flammable products and was heading upstream to Équateur province, according to Papy Epiana, a member of the local provincial assembly.
Boarding of cargo vessels by passengers in prohibited in the country, Mr Tenge said.
The injured are being treated at a nearby hospital with third degree burns.
Many people use boats to travel long distances in DR Congo because of its poor road network.
Passengers have to wait for days, sometimes weeks before finding a vessel to travel on the Congo River and its tributaries.
Deadly boat accidents are common because of overcrowding.
Recently, at least 55 people were killed when an overloaded boat sank on the Congo River in the northern Mongala province.
Update: This story has been amended after the DR Congo government revised the number of deaths.
Our African proverb of the day:
Quote MessageHappiness is like a field you can harvest any season."
A Luo proverb sent by Jared Ochieng Oluoch in West Pokot county, Kenya.
Reporting by Vicky Baker Drama by Chloe Moss
Anna Delvey was due to come into a trust fund of $67m on her 26th birthday. She was on her way to establishing the Anna Delvey Foundation, a multi-million dollar visual-arts centre in the heart of New York City. She filled her time with champagne brunches and stays in penthouse suites, as she wined and dined the New York elites to secure investment for her project. It all sounded wonderful.
Except, it was all a lie.
Behind Anna Delvey, the heiress, was Anna Sorokin, the recent magazine intern. Out of nothing, this otherwise unremarkable twenty-something had reinvented herself as a multi-millionaire socialite, conning businesses and friends out of thousands of dollars in the process.
But how? How did she manage to live a life of luxury for so long? How did she make anyone believe her story? How did she get people to trust her enough to give her their money?
Journalist Vicky Baker and playwright Chloe Moss dig deeper into the New York scandal, and mix drama with documentary to tell the story of Anna Delvey's rise and fall.
Anna is played by Bella Dayne Other parts are played by Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Heather Craney, Will Kirk, Scarlett Courtney, Neil McCaul, Clive Hayward, Ian Conningham, Lucy Reynolds, Adam Courting, Greg Jones, Laura Christy, Jessica Turner, Ikky Elyas, Sinead MacInnes.
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko