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Rwandan President Paul Kagame held a phone conversation with his Democratic Republic of Congo counterpart Félix Tshisekedi along with the African Union chairman Macky Sall amid cross-border tensions.

The Kinshasa government accuses Rwanda of supporting the M23 rebels in renewed fighting in eastern DR Congo - which the government in Kigali denies.

Thousands of people have fled their homes as the Congolese army battles the rebels in North Kivu province.

“I thank Presidents Felix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame for our telephone talks yesterday and today [Monday] in the quest for a peaceful solution to the dispute between the DR Congo and Rwanda,” Mr Sall, who is also the Senegalese president, said on Twitter., external

He encouraged Angolan President João Lourenço to continue mediating on the issue under the regional International Conference on the Great Lakes Region.

Mr Sall had earlier expressed "grave concern" at rising tensions between the two countries. He appealed for dialogue to resolve the dispute.

Last week, DR Congo suspended flights to Rwanda and summoned Kigali's ambassador over the matter.

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A traditional leader feels his people were dealt a cruel blow when absorbed into Sudan a century ago.

Zouheir El Moutaraji scores both goals for Morocco's Wydad Casablanca as they win the African Champions League title by beating Egypt's Al Ahly.

Samuel Kanu was kidnapped in the south-east where separatists have been agitating for a breakaway state.

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And we leave you with this photo of women carrying buckets of water in Mhlaseni village, north of Durban, South Africa.

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Mozambique’s ministry of education and human development has announced the creation of a commission of inquiry to determine who is responsible for the glaring mistakes made in a sixth grade social sciences book, which should arrive in schools from Monday.

The ministry's spokesperson, Gina Guibunda, took the opportunity to apologise to parents, guardians, students and society in general for the mistakes.

The errors in the book entitled “Our Continent”, include both the geographical and historical location of Zimbabwe, a wrong illustration of the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic and some national rivers.

News about what critics described as inconceivable and unacceptable errors began to circulate on social media last week - and forced the education ministry to hold an emergency meeting on Sunday with the the director of the National Institute for the Development of Education (Inde), responsible for drafting and writing the book.

Both Inde and the publisher, Porto Editora from Portugal, have not yet commented on the errors.

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A South African cricket player is seriously injured in hospital after being assaulted at a pub in the south-west of England, police say.

Mondli Khumalo, who plays for North Petherton, was attacked in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The 20-year-old also used to play for South Africa's under-19s and is currently receiving treatment.

A suspect has since been arrested and released while an investigation continues.

"We're taking steps to ensure Mondli's family in South Africa are being kept fully updated on his condition, as well as how our investigation is progressing," Supt Richard Turner from Avon and Somerset police said.

North Petherton Cricket Club said it was "shocked" by the incident and sent its well wishes to Khumalo.

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Forces from Ethiopia's embattled region of Tigray say fighting has broken out again with neighbouring Eritrea.

A senior figure in the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), Getachew Reda, said the clashes took place last week.

He accused Eritrea of trying to escalate tensions.

Tigrai TV, which is affiliated with the Tigrayan military, said Eritreans also shelled the town of Sheraro over the weekend.

Eritrea has not responded to the reports and they have not been independently verified.

While on the ground fighting between the two sides has decreased since a ceasefire in March, tensions have increased on the border between them.

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Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered new ancient artefacts at the Saqqara archaeological site around 19 miles (31 km) from Cairo.

They include hundreds of coffins and statues and date back to around 500 BC according to the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities website. , external

The treasures will be displayed at The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, it continues.

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Some of the other items found included an untouched papyrus, according to the AFP news agency, makeup including kohl and jewellery such as bracelets Reuters reports.

Saqqara, which is a Unesco World Heritage site, has been a treasure trove of ancient Egyptian artefacts.

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A popular club in Nairobi, Kenya, has denied discriminating against black people after a viral video circulated online, external which appeared to allegedly show a black man being turned away when he joined a queue the poster said was for white and Asian people.

The Alchemist club has released video footage it says is from the alleged incident with a time stamp, which shows a queue with a mix of black and white people.

It also said the video shows the black man who was allegedly denied entry going into the club.

It said it spoke to the man in question and he confirmed he had no issues at the venue.

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The United Nations Human Rights Office has urged the transitional authorities in Guinea to revoke a ban on public protests.

Earlier this month the country's military rulers issued a statement prohibiting gatherings in public places.

Opposition parties and civil society activists had expressed concern about the measures.

The UN's human rights spokesperson for Africa, Seif Magango, said the restrictions violated international norms and constituted a setback for democracy.

In September last year Guinea's President, Alpha Conde, was ousted in a military coup.

The leader of the takeover, Mamady Doumbouya, was sworn in as interim president a month later.

The fighting in the north degenerated from a dispute between two men, the government says.

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BBC News, Monrovia

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The health authorities in Liberia have confirmed a shortage of the anti-tuberculosis (TB) vaccine called Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) that is administered to infants and children to boost their immunity against the infectious disease.

Chief Medical Officer Francis Kateh told the BBC a consignment that was expected on 24 May will now arrive on 1 June. He cited flight difficulties for the delays.

He was unsure how many health facilities in the 15 counties of the country may still have some of the vaccine, but confirmed it has run out in the main warehouse in Monrovia.

Truth FM, a private Monrovia radio station, says the shortage has lasted more than four months and that impatient mothers had been planning to stage protests against the shortage of the life-saving vaccine.

Since the end of Liberia’s brutal wars nearly 20 years ago, the country’s health sector has declined to the extent that mainly state-run hospitals and clinics simply give prescriptions to patients to buy drugs from expensive, private pharmacies.

Government officials and those who can afford routinely travel to places like Ghana and India for medical attention

Jose Tembe
BBC News, Maputo

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A teenager with albinism was killed and dismembered in Mogovolas district, in Mozambique's northern Nampula province, for his body parts

Police say they have arrested the main suspect, who they say confessed to the murder.

The detained suspect is the victim’s uncle, aged 22, according to the Nampula police spokesperson, Zacarias Nacute.

The suspect told the press that he had been promised about 7 million meticais ($110,000; £87,000) for the body parts.

He, whilst in the company of other unknown people, hacked off the victim's limbs on Friday.

The body parts were found hidden in the town of Mputo.

Police are looking for the other suspects.

In the provinces of Nampula and Niassa, cases of abduction and murder of people with albinism have sparked fear in many citizens.

Ishaq Khalid
BBC News, Abuja

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A presidential aspirant of Nigeria’s governing All Progressives Congress (APC) party has appeared in court to face corruption charges.

Rochas Okorocha is accused of stealing and money laundering involving 2.9 billion naira ($7m; £5.5m) of public funds between 2014 and 2016 when he was the governor of the south-eastern state of Imo.

He pleaded not guilty on Monday.

Mr Okorocha - who is a serving senator - was arrested last week by Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

His supporters say the arrest was an attempt to frustrate his presidential ambition.

The APC is expected to hold primaries later this week to choose its presidential candidate.

The elections are due in February next year.

The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) picked former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as its candidate on Saturday.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s second and final term is due to end in May next year.

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Pope Francis has announced that two African clergy will be promoted to cardinals in the Catholic Church, which means they will rank among the most senior officials in the institution.

The two he named are Bishop Peter Okpaleke from Ekwulobia in south-east Nigeria and Bishop Richard Kuuia Baawobr from Wa in northern Ghana.

Bishop Okpaleke was ordained as a priest in the early 1990s, meanwhile Bishop Baawobr has been a priest since 1987 according to the Ghana Web news site., external

They were amongst a list of 21 men Pope Francis announced would get the promotion.

They will be installed during a ceremony in August.

There are currently 208 cardinals.

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In South Africa at least 10 people have died after a bus crashed on the N3 in Grootvlei, Mpumalanga in the east of the country on Sunday morning.

The driver lost control of the vehicle in the incident, which is described as having caused “absolute devastation” leaving dead bodies strewn on the ground according to South Africa’s Sowetan Live news website., external

The driver is thought to have driven into a pillar, causing the bus to drive into a stream, according to the news24 website., external

Several people are also injured.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will appoint a council this week to advise on a broad-based economic empowerment programme for black people.

He noted that while the empowerment programme that has been ongoing for 20 years has been significant, there has been "inadequate progress" in some areas.

"We have gone backwards when it comes to increasing black management control, upscaling skills development, entrenching enterprise development and broadening procurement to give opportunities to black women and the youth,” he said in his weekly letter to South Africans,.

He noted that at the end of the apartheid regime in 1994, black ownership of companies listed at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange "was less than 1%."

"This figure has not improved much in the past 28 years," he said.

He said more work was needed to address the challenges that businesses owned by black people face, including getting capital to start and expand their businesses, as well as finding markets for their products.

He also cited the challenges that black women especially encounter in taking on large-scale transactions.

"The continued exclusion of the black majority from the economy’s mainstream constrains economic growth, which ultimately impacts all business," he said.

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The junta in Chad has warned of an imminent militant attack in the capital, N'Djamena, amid tension due to opposition protests.

"There is a very high terrorist alert in the city of N'Djamena, which has forced us to ban all public demonstrations," RFI website quoted Communication Minister Abdreman Koulamallah as saying.

It added that the alert followed reports that "three terrorists, probably from Boko Haram, managed to infiltrate N'Djamena over the weekend".

It cited official sources who said that the suspected militants were still at large.

Rumours of an imminent attack were sparked by heavy deployment of security forces on major roads in N’Djamena.

At least 38 people were killed and dozens more injured in a Boko Haram attack in N'Djamena in 2015.