Ishaq Khalid
BBC News, Abuja

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A court in the Nigerian city of Lagos has ordered the immediate arrest of a prominent suspected internet fraudster.

It follows the failure of Ismaila Mustapha, popularly known as "Mompha", to appear before the court for the continuation of his trial on fraud and money-laundering charges. One of the charges relates to alleged internet fraud of nearly $15m (£12m).

Mompha had pleaded not guilty in the case brought by Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which arrested him in January.

He was subsequently released on bail and had deposited his Nigerian passport as part of the bail conditions.

But he has failed to appear in the Special Offences Court at successive hearings.

The anti-graft agency’s lawyers told the court that the suspect had travelled to Dubai from Ghana using a new passport in violation of his bail conditions.

The court has now revoked the bail and ordered for his immediate arrest. It is not yet clear where he is currently located.

Nicholas Witchell
BBC royal correspondent

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They have seen and heard about many things during their travels, but on the first visit to Rwanda by members of the British royal family it was clear that the Prince of Wales and his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, were deeply affected by what they were told about the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi population in 1994.

The couple are in Rwanda for the summit of Commonwealth leaders, which was postponed in 2021 and 2020 because of the pandemic.

At the Genocide Memorial in the capital, Kigali, they saw photographs of some of the estimated 800,000 victims of the genocide. Many were children, hacked to death, tortured or killed by grenades.

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It was a sombre looking prince who went on to the Nyamata Church Genocide Memorial outside Kigali. It is said that in the course of two days some 10,000 people were massacred there.

“We must ensure it never happens again,” the prince said to one official.

Read more:

• Prince Charles meets Rwandan genocide survivors
• Rwanda genocide: 100 days of slaughter
• Rwanda genocide: 'I forgave my husband's killer - our children married'

Ishaq Khalid
BBC News, Abuja

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A "floating clinic" has been launched to deliver medical emergency services to those who live along rivers in the Nigerian state of Lagos.

At Wednesday's launch of the mobile clinic, officials said the medical boat was equipped with offices, nurses’ workstations and medical facilities.

Speaking at its unveiling, Olusegun Ogboye, permanent secretary of Lagos State Ministry of Health, said the idea behind the floating clinic was to help "provide first aid, medical emergency care and basic healthcare services at accident scenes on the inland waterways and riverine communities in Lagos State."

Dr Ogboye said there were many areas in Lagos that could only be accessed by water.

The Lagos state authorities also said that the boat would be used for the ongoing "measles and Covid vaccination campaign".

This is the first initiative of its kind in Nigeria and the government of Lagos state has plans to expand the programme beyond one boat.

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Libyan football will witness a new stage in its history when the final stage of the Premier League is held outside of the country for the first time.

Chris Ewokor
BBC News, Abuja

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In a shock announcement, Nigeria’s Medical and Dental Council said it will not recognize degrees from Ukrainian universities obtained since the start of the country’s war with Russia.

The regulator for professional health services in Nigeria will also not accept medical and dental programmes offered online.

The announcement follows the conversion of in-person courses to online courses for many students who were studying in Ukraine who are yet to complete their programmes.

Some of those students who spoke to the BBC say it is a huge blow to their studies and careers, especially for those who had spent more than five years studying and only have a few months left until graduation.

They call the policy discriminatory, arguing that students who studied online during the pandemic were allowed to graduate and practise.

Student have also criticised the government for failing to keep Nigerian universities open amid recent rolling strikes by lecturers, forcing them to study elsewhere.

Hundreds of Nigerian students were evacuated from Ukraine following Russia’s invasion.

The Medical and Dental Council, which regulates Nigerian doctors, dentists and alternative medicine practitioners has recently rejected online training from other countries, saying it falls short of acceptable standards.

More on this story:

• Ukraine war: What next for the African students who fled?
• War in Ukraine: 'Why won't Nigeria accept my medical degree?'

Three students react to the Nigerian Medical and Dental Council's decision to not accept degrees from Ukrainian universities.

Jose Tembe
BBC News, Maputo

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"Negligence and lack of professionalism" are the factors that led to errors in the production and printing of a sixth-grade social science textbook in Mozambique, according to the conclusions of a report compiled by a commission to investigate the mistakes.

The five stages of evaluation of the book prior to printing were not observed, said Minister of Education and Human Development Carmelita Namashulua.

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.

The mistakes angered Mozambican people, including academics, politicians, journalists and publishing houses.

They have demanded the resignation of Ms Namashulua.

Alfred Lasteck
BBC News, Dar es Salaam

The East African Court of Justice has postponed a ruling over a Maasai land dispute in Tanzania until September.

The Tanzanian government is accused of violently seizing 1,500 sq km (580 sq miles) of land in Loliondo in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro district.

This is despite the East African Court of Justice's 2018 injunction against the state evicting the community.

Last week several people had to seek medical treatment after sustaining wounds during clashes with the police.

Tanzania’s government has denied the use of violence and excessive force by police in what it has termed a land-marking exercise.

It also said no-one was being evicted from the area.

Authorities have designated the land for hunting.

BBC World Service

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A tooth belonging to murdered Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba has arrived back in the Democratic Republic of Congo and is being taken on a tour of his homeland.

It is all that remains of the country's first prime minister, who was assassinated in 1961 by rebels in collusion with Belgian mercenaries and his body dissolved in acid.

The tooth will first go to the town of his birth, named Lumumbaville in his honour, then to Kisangani, where he started his political activism, and then to Lubumbashi, where he was killed.

A coffin containing the tooth will finally be laid to rest in the capital Kinshasa, on the eve of Independence Day next Thursday.

Read more: Patrice Lumumba: Why Belgium is returning a Congolese hero's golden tooth

Cycling team Ineos Grenadiers have joined forces with marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge to launch a cycling academy in Kenya.

Authorities in Egypt have arrested three men after one of them was allegedly filmed singing and dancing in a mosque, according to the AFP news agency.

The clip later went viral.

In the video, the accused man is seen singing along to what locals call a mahraganat song. It is a type of electronic music which authorities have labelled inappropriate and therefore forbid their performance.

Critics have condemned Egypt's human rights record under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, including the arrest of several activists under his watch.

Egypt has previously denied there are political prisoners in the country.

Read more:

• Alaa Abdel Fattah detention: Truss to seek release of British-Egyptian activist
• Egypt arrests: UN condemns detention of human rights advocates

The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are in the country for a summit of Commonwealth leaders.

Callum May
BBC News

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The most senior official at the British Home Office says the Rwanda removals policy might have slowed the flow of migrants across the English channel.

Matthew Rycroft told MPs that the number of crossings is higher than at the same point last year – but lower than the department’s projection.

“There is already possibly the beginnings of some deterrent effect visible,” Mr Rycroft told the home affairs select committee.

He also revealed that 47 people had originally been told they would take off on the flight that was arranged last week – and then cancelled, when legal challenges prevented the asylum seekers’ removal.

Read more:

• How many people cross the Channel in small boats?
• Why are asylum seekers being sent to Rwanda and how many could go?

Ministers could ignore injunctions on asylum seekers set by European judges, under new proposals.

Many Kenyans online and speakers of the Swahili language elsewhere are expressing their shock and others losing their heads over the name of the Japanese tennis superstar Naomi Osaka’s newly launched company.

Hana Kuma - the name of the media company that Osaka has launched in partnership with four-time NBA champion LeBron James - has caused a stir and has been trending on Twitter.

The term means “flower bear” in Japanese.

But it is not so pleasant in Swahili - it is an explicit phrase referring to an absence of female genitalia.

On Twitter, Victoria Uwonkunda has noted the "whole other spicy meaning [of the company's name] in Swahili":

The Kenyan TV station, Citizen, has written about the topic and why Kenyans are "all losing their heads over it".

The production company has said it will be creating stories that are "culturally specific but universal to all audiences" and aims to “tackle important issues of society”.

It already has multiple projects lined up.

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A nine-day trip around the Democratic Republic of Congo awaits the return of the remains of independence hero Patrice Lumumba whose coffin returns to the country on Wednesday.

A gold-crowned tooth is all that remains of Mr Lumumba who was shot dead by a firing squad in 1961 and his body dissolved in acid.

The plane carrying the coffin will land in the capital, Kinshasa, from Brussels - where the former colonial power returned the tooth to Mr Lumumba's family.

The coffin will then tour the vast country, including the village where Mr Lumumba was born, before the tooth is taken to a newly built mausoleum in Kinshasa.

The tour is expected to be emotionally charged, according to the AFP news agency.

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The African Union has suspended its participation in the UN-facilitated talks to end the Sudan political crisis.

Its representative in the talks cited lack of transparency and exclusion of important political actors from the process.

Mohamed Belaish, the AU representative in Khartoum was quoted by the state-run Sudan news agency as saying that "the African Union cannot participate in a process that is not based on transparency, honesty and non-exclusion".

He said the AU would “not participate in a process that does not respect all the actors and treat them with full respect and on an equal footing".

The AU and the regional bloc Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) had previously backed the UN-led intra-Sudanese dialogue process, which began on 8 June.

The dialogue was however postponed indefinitely a few days later, after the former ruling Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition refused to join its sessions.

The FFC is demanding the military to leave power and return power to a civilian transitional government.

Nigeria's Ola Aina has no regrets about playing at the African Cup of Nations, even though it cost him his spot at club side Torino.

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Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) says it will start using body-worn cameras among its staff to deal with tax cheating and bribery, its head is quoted as saying by the local Business Daily newspaper.

The body cams will be used mainly by staff in the domestic tax department and customs and border control, according to the report.

Some KRA staff have been accused of amassing properties that are not consistent with their pay.

"Very soon we will also be ensuring our enforcement officers have body-worn cameras, like the ones you see in the US, so that any action they take is recorded and we can see it. When you put it off, we will also have to understand why you do it," KRA Commissioner General Githii Mburu is quoted as saying.

Last year, the tax authority announced it was viewing the social media profiles of targeted individuals to reconcile their lifestyles with their tax compliance.

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Britain’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says she is seeking a meeting with her Egyptian counterpart to secure the release of a jailed activist who has been on a partial hunger strike since April.

Alaa Abdel Fattah was given British citizenship through his British-born mother.

He was a key figure in the 2011 uprising that ousted Egypt’s autocratic president Hosni Mubarak.

Mr Fattah was given a five-year jail sentence last December after being accused of spreading false news.

His family has welcomed Ms Truss’s pledge, saying time to help him is running out.

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