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Jose Tembe
BBC News, Maputo

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Mozambique’s ministry of education and human development has ordered the immediate withdrawal of a sixth grade social science text book over errors in its content.

The mistakes in the book called Our Continent, include both the geographical and historical location of Zimbabwe - it said that the country bordered the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

There was also an incorrect illustration of the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic.

Minister Carmelita Namashulua has also announced the suspension of an official responsible for producing and reviewing the text books.

According to Ms Namashulua, "the mistakes in this book are unacceptable and incompatible with the mission of the education sector and make us ashamed. They are mistakes that even a child is not capable of making."

Thomas Naadi
BBC News, Accra

Opposition MPs in Ghana have queried why the government is releasing more than $3m (£2.4m) for the construction of the controversial National Cathedral in the capital, Accra.

The government had previously said that the $200m project would be funded solely through private donations.

The concerns raised by opposition MPs follow the circulation of a leaked official letter indicating the release of what were called "additional" funds for the cathedral.

The MPs want the finance minister to appear before parliament to explain exactly how much public money has been released for the project.

They’re also questioning the process of awarding contracts.

According to the opposition MPs, it is illegal for the government to use taxpayers’ money for the 5,000-seat cathedral building without parliamentary approval.

But officials have denied any wrongdoing, saying the government is ready to account for the expenditure.

Many Ghanaians have questioned the government’s plans for the multi-million-dollar inter-denominational cathedral and conference halls given the economic hardships in the country.

President Nana Akufo-Addo had said the cathedral building will be a symbol of national unity.

Cameroon is set to host the African Athletics Championships in 2024, says Confederation of African Athletics president Hamad Kalkaba Malboum.

Osinachi Nwachuwku's death in April sparked outrage amid reports she was a victim of domestic abuse.

Peter Jegwa
Lilongwe, Malawi

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The authorities in Malawi have stopped South African celebrity Zodwa Wabantu from coming into the country to perform because her revealing dance moves are thought to be out of tune with the nation’s moral standards.

The South African entertainer has made a career from explicit dancing styles which include wearing revealing clothes and often going on stage without any underwear.

She was set to perform in the southern city of Blantyre on 11 June, but the show’s organisers say they have received communication from the country’s censorship board that the South African will not be allowed to enter the country.

Tourism and Culture Minister Micheal Usi told a local newspaper that he backed the decision.

The independent Daily Times newspaper quoted him as saying that he had received numerous calls from local women opposed to the South African performing in Malawi.

“Imagine if she came to perform and undressed on stage, what will all those women think of me,” Mr Usi said.

Malawi is a secular state with a liberal constitution that guarantees freedom of expression. It however, remains culturally conservative with most citizens leaning towards Christian teachings.

Wabantu has previously been banned from performing in Zimbabwe and Zambia for similar reasons.

Chris Ewokor
BBC News, Abuja

Image source, Osinachi Nwachukwu Singing Ministry Int’l

The High Court in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, has ordered that the husband of the late gospel music singer, Osinachi, should be remanded in prison.

Peter Nwachukwu has been charged in connection with her death and has been accused of violence "against his wife with the knowledge that her death would be the probable consequence”.

The charges also mentioned emotional, verbal and psychological abuse.

Mr Nwachukwu pleaded not guilty.

He was arrested after his wife, who was a top Nigerian Christian music star, died in an Abuja hospital in April.

He has since been in detention while the police investigated the cause of her death.

Initial reports said the 42-year old performer had been sick with throat cancer. But her family deny that, alleging she had been a victim of domestic abuse.

They accused her husband of subjecting Osinachi to domestic violence, leading to her death

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

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South Africa's police minister has said there has been a significant surge in the number of murders and other violent crimes.

Bheki Cele said the first three months of this year were violent, brutal and unsafe for many South Africans.

He said more than 6,000 people were killed - an increase of about 20% on the same period last year.

Kidnappings showed the sharpest increase - more than doubling to over 3,000.

There were also 10,000 more rapes between January and March.

Mr Cele described the figures as dismal and vowed to weed out corrupt officers and better equip the police.

He said better relations between communities and the police were needed to fight crime.

Read more about kidnappings in South Africa:

• 'I survived but part of me died that day

Jean Claude Mwambutsa
BBC Great Lakes, Kigali

A project employing women to drive electric-powered motorcycle taxis is being launched in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali.

Male drivers currently dominate the sector.

The first group of 120 women have just finished three months' training on riding as well as maintaining the new bikes.

The project both challenges people's perception of women and is hoping to improve the environment.

Ornella Uwobasa, who trained the women, says they want “to change the mentality” to show that women can do the job.

“We want to see women on the roads, and everyone to know that women can work on the road,” she tells the BBC.

The project, jointly owned by the city authorities and a private company, is aimed at employing poor women who are given the motorbikes for free.

The city's vice-mayor, Martine Urujeni, said the project will cut carbon emissions and reduce unemployment.

“We focused on vulnerable women like single mothers - divorced and widows - because we want to improve their lives.”

Around 35,000 motorbike taxis are registered in Kigali but most are operated by men.

Rwanda encourages the use of electric motor vehicles but their numbers are still low, with only 150 registered so far this year.

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Senegal's President and head of the African Union, Macky Sall, has told his Russian counterpart that he should consider the impact that food shortages caused by the Ukraine conflict are having on the continent, the AFP news agency is reporting.

The two men have been meeting in the southern Russian city of Sochi.

AFP quotes President Sall him as saying that President Vladimir Putin should "become aware that our countries, even if they are far from the theatre [of action], are victims on an economic level" of the conflict.

He added that food supplies should be "outside" of the West's sanctions on Russia.

Prior to the conflict, more than 40% of wheat consumed in Africa came from either Ukraine or Russia.

Before he left Senegal, President Sall's office said the visit was aimed at freeing up stocks of cereals and fertilisers that are currently blocked in Ukrainian ports.

African countries have been particularly affected by the price increases caused by the war.

Earlier, the Reuters news agency quoted the Kremlin as saying that Mr Putin would give an "exhaustive" explanation as to what is happening to Ukrainian grain.

In his public remarks after the meeting, quoted by AFP, Mr Putin said Russia was "always on Africa's side".

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Kenya's election commission has denied Deputy President William Ruto's claim that the agency and other government officials were planning to undermine the 9 August poll.

The deputy president is one of the two leading candidates vying to take over from President Uhuru Kenyatta after the vote. His main rival is former prime minister Raila Odinga.

Mr Ruto told European Union ambassadors during a meeting that a million voters had allegedly been moved off the voting roll from his strongholds by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).

But IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati said there was no "breach of the voter register or interference of the system that holds it".

“Let's not talk about one million names missing, there's no such thing. The one million names we are talking about are for those who applied for transfers and we are undergoing the process of ensuring that the proper transfers are affected," he said.

On Thursday, the deputy president accused government officials of taking sides in the forthcoming poll.

Mr Ruto has also pulled out of a presidential debate scheduled for July, citing biased media coverage.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin will give his Senegalese counterpart an "exhaustive" explanation as to what is happening to Ukrainian grain when the two meet later on Friday, Reuters reports the Kremlin as saying.

Senegal President Macky Sall, who is also the current African Union chairperson, is in Russia to discuss the food crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.

President Sall's office said the visit was aimed at freeing up stocks of cereals and fertilisers that are currently blocked in Ukrainian ports.

African countries have been particularly affected by the price increases caused by the war.

The two presidents are due to meet in the southern Russian city of Sochi.

The authorities in Lagos have begun the process of crushing more than 2,000 confiscated motorcycles seized this week as part of the attempts to enforce a ban on motorcycle taxis, known as okadas, in the Nigerian city.

The ban was introduced following last month’s killing by a mob, allegedly made up of motorbike taxi drivers, of Sunday David, a 38-year-old sound engineer in the Lekki area of the city.

It’s not the first time the government has imposed a ban.

In January 2020, the government banned the operation of motorcyclists in 15 local council areas across Lagos. But that stopped being enforced.

Some are sceptical whether this ban will work as the okadas provide a vital service in places not covered by the public transport system.

They are also an important source of employment for many young men in the vast city, where lack of work is a big problem.

Thousands of pilgrims are attending an open-air ceremony at Namugongo shrine, near Uganda's capital, Kampala, to mark Uganda Martyrs Day celebrations.

The Catholic shrine is dedicated to Christians martyred for their faith in the 19th Century.

Some of the pilgrims spent the night holding a vigil near the martyrs' shrines.

President Yoweri Museveni has wished the pilgrims a safe stay in the country and tweeted a photo of the venue:

The annual event is a big draw to Catholics in the country and the East Africa region. This year's event is the first since the country confirmed its first Coronavirus case in July 2020.

Local media outlets report of beefed up security on roads leading to the Namugongo shrine.

The Daily Monitor newspapre has been tweeting pictures of the event:

South Sudan coach Stefano Cusin says his side must be bold to have a chance of qualifying for next year's Africa Cup of Nations finals.

BBC Monitoring
The world through its media

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Nigeria has given the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) the greenlight to implement a deal on construction of a gas pipeline to Europe through Morocco.

There have been reports of surging demand for African energy supplies from the EU that is seeking to wean itself of dependence on Russian oil and gas.

"This gas pipeline is to take gas to 15 West African countries and to Morocco and through Morocco to Spain and Europe," said Timipre Sylva, the minister of state for petroleum resources.

"It is only after the engineering design of the pipeline that we will know exactly (what) the cost of the pipeline will be. When that time comes, we will be talking about funding," he added.

Nigeria is a member of the Opec group of major oil producers and has huge gas reserves - the largest proven reserves in Africa and the seventh largest globally.

On 30 May, Tanzania transported 60,000 tonnes of coal to the Netherlands.

Last month, Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi said European nations had "flooded" his country with requests to supply coal.

Read more:

• Ukraine crisis: Can Africa replace Russian gas supplies to Europe?

BBC Monitoring
The world through its media

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Chad's interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby has signed a decree declaring a food and nutrition emergency.

"This decision follows the constant deterioration of the food and nutritional situation this year and taking into account the growing risk to populations if no humanitarian aid...is provided," read the decree.

The plea for aid comes before a meeting between African Union chairman Macky Sall and Vladmir Putin to discuss Russian grain supplies.

The United Nations has warned that 5.5 million people in Chad - more than a third of the population - will need humanitarian assistance this year.

The World Food Programme said in March that some 2.1 million Chadians would be "severely food insecure" during the dry weather season that starts this month.

Jose Tembe
BBC News, Maputo

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Residents of Beira city in the central Mozambican province of Sofala have called for protection of local cemeteries amid reports of vandalism of graves.

At the Mangalane cemetery, more than 50 graves have been vandalised in the past month. The criminals are removing copper crucifixes and other metallic objects.

The traditional leader responsible for the cemetery, Fernando Jaime, said the acts of desecration have been taking place in broad daylight.

"They take crosses and other objects of dead people they find beside the grave. They put these things together and sell them for scrap," he told local media.

Carlos Cassicussa, a resident of the Mungassa neighbourhood, said the situation was the result of a degradation of moral values.

"This behaviour is really wrong. The interior ministry should take action. They come to the cemetery even at noon," he said.

At least three people were shot dead after a team from the Kenyan paramilitary police (the GSU) opened fire on a crowd that was on the country's main highway protesting over attacks on humans by wildlife.

The protesters in Masimba, south-east of Nairobi had on Thursday blocked the main highway connecting the capital to the coastal city of Mombasa for hours.

Local county Governor Joseph Ole Lenku said "communities are getting frustrated by the loss of human lives to wildlife" in the area, which borders a national park.

"The police should desist from using excessive force when trying to maintain law and order in circumstances like today's... These deaths could have been avoided with a little more understanding," the governor tweeted, external.

The Kenya Wildlife Service "must keep their animals away from our people to avoid the losses we have witnessed recently".

Attacks by wild animals in the area has left several people dead in recent months, local media say.

There are unconfirmed reports that the protesters hurled stones at a lorry that was carrying the officers.

The local police boss is quoted by Kenyan media as saying that an investigation into the incident was ongoing.

The road is crucial for East Africa's economy as it links the port of Mombasa to landlocked countries, such as Uganda, South Sudan and Rwanda.

A senator who was driving in the area during the protest said stones were hurled at his vehicle.

DJ Edu
Presenter of This Is Africa on BBC World Service

Image source, Def Jam/Universal

It’s happening a lot at the moment: Africa’s hottest talent is being signed to big international labels, and often their sound is shifting.

Producers from outside the continent are on their case, with the intention, fully embraced by the artists themselves, of widening their fanbase and appealing to global audiences.

Stonebwoy has been in talks with Def Jam, a subsidiary of Universal, for several years now, and he’s finally got the deal he feels comfortable with.

He’s now promoting his first release since the signing.

Therapy is a smooth, seductive song which shows off Stonebwoy’s considerable vocal skill.

There’s still a nod to the reggae and dancehall sound he’s famous for, but overall it’s a much more melodic, RnB vibe.

Stonebwoy told me about the producers:

Stonebwoy is delighted with how well the song has done so far, thanks to the push the label has been able to give it, and he has no time for those who might want him to stick with the dancehall they know and love.

He says the old Stonebwoy is still there, but an artist has to keep growing.

Stonebwoy is cooking up an album so I asked what we can expect from it?

You can hear an exclusive acoustic performance of Therapy, as well as DJ Edu’s conversation with Stonebwoy on This is Africa this Saturday, on BBC World Service radio and partner stations across Africa, as well as online here.