Thomas Naadi
BBC News, Accra

A prominent critic of Sierra Leone's government of has been killed during a police raid, raising serious concerns about extrajudicial killings and accusations of targeting opposition figures.

It happened when officers were in the hideout of alleged suspects behind last week’s violent protests.

According to the police, Hassan Dumbuya - popularly known as Evangelist Samson and a member of the All People’s Congress - was killed when officers exchanged gunfire with a neighbourhood group in the capital Freetown.

Police also say they received intelligence that ex-civil war combatants were planning an attack, so they arrested four people and confiscated what they said was a light submachine gun.

President Julius Maada Bio has said that the protests were an attempt to overthrow his government and that the perpetrators will face justice.

Twenty-one civilians and five police officers were killed during the violent protests over the rising cost of basic goods. Rights groups have called for an independent investigation into the protests.

Others have paid tribute to Dumbuya, while disputing the police's version of events.

Shingai Nyoka
BBC News, Harare

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A measles outbreak in Zimbabwe has killed 80 children since April, with health officials blaming religions that prohibit vaccinations.

Measles is a highly infectious but preventable respiratory disease which causes fever and a rash.

Cases in Africa surged 400% in the first quarter of this year compared to last year, according to the World Health Organization.

Most of the victims are aged between six months and 15 years and unvaccinated. Zimbabwe has begun a mass vaccination drive.

Measles outbreaks are sporadic and mostly linked to communities which prohibit modern medical treatment.

Emery Makumeno
BBC News, Kinshasa

After four months in prison awaiting trial François Beya needs urgent medical care, according to a medical report at the Democratic Republic of Congo's top military court.

Before becoming a close security advisor at the presidency, the 67-year-old had served in the security apparatus of the last four regimes since the 1980s.

Beya and five others have been on trial since 3 June, accused of conspiracy and offence against the President Félix Tshisekedi.

He denies any wrongdoing.

The security advisor was detained by the intelligence service for two months, before being moved to Makala high security prison in the capital Kinshasa.

It is not clear whether he will now be treated locally or flown out of the country.

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Shingai Nyoka
BBC News, Harare

A Zimbabwe opposition MP who's been behind bars for two months must remain in jail, a Harare high court judge ruled today.

Job Sikhala has been repeatedly denied bail as he awaits trial on incitement to violence and obstruction charges.

He was arrested on 14 June after opposition Citizens Coalition for Change supporters clashed with those of the ruling Zanu-PF at the funeral wake of murder victim Moreblessing Ali, a woman the opposition claimed as a party member.

About a dozen other opposition supporters were also arrested.

He was charged with inciting violence and for misleading the police for a social media video in which he is alleged to have blamed the ruling party for the murder.

The courts have denied Mr Sikhala bail, ruling that he was likely to reoffend as he faces similar unrelated charges.

His lengthy pre-trial detention has prompted a letter to the African Union and human rights groups in which he decried a "total breakdown of laws... We are under political persecution passed as trials," he said.

Forcing clubs wishing to participate in men's continental competitions in Africa to have a women's team will boost the development of the women's game, according to a Kaizer Chiefs official.

BBC Focus on Africa radio

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A political ally of Kenya's president-elect William Ruto has dismissed demands from his rival Raila Odinga that the presidential election result be decalred null and void.

Musalia Mudavadi told BBC Focus on Africa radio that there was "no problem".

"We have a few individuals who are perennially always on the road to dispute the results."

Mr Odinga argued that the head of the electoral commission had broken the law, by announcing the result on Monday evening without the backing of all seven commissioners.

But Mr Mudavadi said: "Commissioners do not determine the results, commissioners collate the results… and the results are in the public domain. There is nothing that is untoward."

Peter Mwai
BBC Reality Check

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Raila Odinga, the runner-up in Kenya's presidential election has declared Monday's results "null and void" and a democratic setback.

Speaking on Tuesday, he also said that in 2017, the Supreme Court of Kenya nullified the presidential election because of what he called "the misconduct" of the national election commission.

So what happened in that election?

The court did overturn the August 2017 vote, in which Mr Odinga lost to the current president, Uhuru Kenyatta, after he challenged the result, claiming the voting process had been "tampered with".

The Supreme Court ruled the election commission had "failed, neglected, or refused to conduct the presidential election in a manner consistent with the dictates of the constitution".

International observers, including the EU, the Carter Centre and Commonwealth observers, had described the vote as largely free and fair.

Mr Odinga then boycotted a re-run of the vote in October, saying the election commission had failed to ensure that mistakes he said were made in the August election would not be repeated.

The Supreme Court then dismissed some legal challenges to the election re-run, confirming Mr Kenyatta as president.

Nichola Mandil
BBC News, Juba

At least 80 civilians were killed in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria state in July alone, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) has revealed.

The killings occurred as a result of ethnic clashes in Kapoeta North county. It wasn’t clear what triggered the clashes, the UN agency says

According to its latest humanitarian snapshot released on Tuesday, Ocha says more than 17,500 people in the area were also displaced due to the violence.

It reported that as of July, food insecurity, inter-communal violence, conflict and disease outbreaks persisted and continued to worsen.

Ocha says the humanitarian situation in South Sudan remains dire.

Samba Cyuzuzo
BBC Great Lakes

Rwanda has kicked off its once-in-a-decade survey of people living in the country that will be conducted over the next two weeks.

Some 20,000 officers are asking individuals about the number of people in their households, their level of education, health cover, how they make a living, their water and electricity supply, internet use, ownership of telephones - among other questions.

The last census conducted in 2012 put the country's population at 10.5 million.

This census will cost over $28m (£23), authorities have said, with provisional results expected by December.

President Paul Kagame and his wife Jeannette were among the first to be counted:

Details are emerging about some of the 15 children who died in Sunday's blaze at a Coptic church.

BBC World Service

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The last batch of France's Operation Barkhane troops left Mali on Monday, marking the end of nearly a decade of bilateral military co-operation.

"Today, at 13.00 (Paris time), the last military unit of the Barkhane force present on Malian territory crossed the border to Niger. It came from the Operational Desert Platform of [Mali's northern region of] Gao, which was handed over to the Malian armed forces this morning," the French armed forces said in a statement, external.

The announcement came shortly after activists in Gao and the capital, Bamako, staged protests demanding the departure of French forces from Mali by Wednesday.

They accused the French troops of providing support to militants after the army alleged that attackers who killed 42 soldiers in Gao's Tessit town on 7 August may have benefited from external support.

A diplomatic fallout between Bamako and Paris over the deployment of Russia's Wagner mercenaries to the Sahel nation expedited the departure of France's 5,100-strong force from Mali.

Read more on the conflict in the Sahel:

• Mali and Burkina Faso: Did the coups halt jihadist attacks?

Ameyu Etana
BBC News Afaan Oromoo

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Some Ethiopians have started calling Kenya’s President-elect William Ruto "Ilma Abbaa Gadaa" – meaning the son of the traditional chief of Ethiopia’s Oromo people, to show their affection.

It appears Ethiopians are showing growing interest in Kenyan politics.

A picture of Mr Ruto wearing the traditional attire of a community in northern Kenya, and a video of him speaking the Borana language while campaigning, are trending on social media.

Borana communities all have one traditional leader - the Abbaa Gadaa - practising a traditional system of governance that is recognised by the UN's heritage body Unesco.

Some on social media claim Mr Ruto - who is an ethnic Kalenjin from Kenya's Rift Valley region - is from the Borana community.

Both communities have produced some of the world's best long-distance runners.

Kenya and Ethiopia have strong relations, and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was among the first world leaders to congratulate Mr Ruto on his win.

Peter Mwai
BBC Reality Check

Four of Kenya’s national electoral commissioners who distanced themselves from the results announced on Monday said the results aren’t credible because the sum of the vote percentages given exceeds 100%.

It is a claim that has also been made online by supporters of Raila Odinga.

The 100.01% total can be explained through mathematics.

Because of rounding up or down when calculating each percentage to two decimal places, the possibility of coming to a figure less or more than 100% arises.

You can only get an exact figure of 100% when working with all the decimal places.

According to the results announced by the IEBC chairperson, the winner William Ruto received 50.49% of the votes, Odinga 48.85%, George Wajackoyah 0.44% and Mwaure Waihiga 0.23%.

The total comes to 100.01%.

All the figures have been rounded to two decimal places. The extra 0.01% appears because the decimal number before the rounding off in all the proportions was five or more.

The same commissioners also falsely claimed 0.01% of the total valid votes cast would represent 142,000 votes and said it “would make a significant difference in the result”.

However, the accurate figure would be 1,420 votes.

There is however a discrepancy of 110 votes between the total number of valid votes announced by the chairperson, 14,213,137, and the total number of votes garnered by all the four candidates.

Jonathan Paye-Layleh
BBC News, Monrovia

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The US has sanctioned senior Liberian government officials and over their alleged involvement in corruption, and President George Weah has suspended them and ordered an investigation.

The three officials include Nathaniel McGill who is President George Weah's chief of staff and minister for presidential affairs.

Others are Sayma Syrenius Cephus - the solicitor general and chief prosecutor, and Bill Twehway - the head of the port of Monrovia.

The trio are accused of "undermining democracy in Liberia for their own personal benefit,” according to a statement.

The president's chief of staff is accused of receiving bribes from potential investors and accepting kickbacks for government contracts.

None of three officials has responded to the accusations. President Weah said the whole matter had raised "serious concern".

Commentators now expect a petition to be filed at Kenya's Supreme Court, following Raila Odinga's public rejection of the presidential result.

They have until Monday - seven days after the election result - to do so.

Mr Odinga is now leaving the press conference in Nairobi having strongly criticised the electoral commission chairman, accusing him of handling the polls like a dictator and a bully.

"For avoidance of doubt, I want to repeat: We totally and without reservation reject the presidential results announced yesterday by [electoral commission chairman] Mr Chebukati," Mr Odinga says.

He also accuses the electoral chairman of bullying election counters who disagreed with him.

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Raila Odinga continues:

"The figures announced by Mr Chebukati are null and void, and must be quashed by a court of law."

He also says:

"Unless a unanimous decision is reached on any matter, the commission will be made by a majority of the members present", he says quoting from legislation, suggesting that the four out of seven dissenting electoral commissioners should have had their objections upheld.

Presidential runner-up Raila Odinga, whose Azimio La Umjoa coalition alleged vote-rigging in Monday's result, is speaking publicly for the first time since his defeat.

Addressing the nation from Azimio's media HQ in Nairobi, he says:

"Millions of Kenyans turned out in large numbers in an attempt to choose their leaders... But yesterday our budding democracy suffered a major setback.

"Kenya faces a grave legal and political crisis as a result of the actions of Wafula Chebukati, the IEBC [election commission] chairman.

"What we saw yesterday was a travesty and a blatant disregard for the constitution and the laws of Kenya."

The vice-chairperson of Kenya's election commission Juliana Cherera was one of the four commissioners who refused to endorse the results of the presidential results announced on Monday.

She has been explaining their reasoning.

She claimed that if you added the percentages as announced by the chairperson of the commission, Wafula Chebukati, the sum came to 100.01%.

The claim needs to be tested and could be down to a rounding error, but Ms Cherera described this as a mathematic absurdity that defied logic.

She added that the results of the presidential elections did not reflect the opinion of the commissioners, because they had to process them before they were declared and they did not get to see all of them.

It's now a week since Kenyans have seen or heard from President Uhuru Kenyatta.

He briefly spoke to journalists last Tuesday after voting at a polling station in his hometown on the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi.

He was backing former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to succeed him instead his deputy, William Ruto, who was announced winner of the 9 August election.

When the two of them took power in 2013 they had a close relationship, always referring to each other as "brother", publicly back-slapping after sharing a joke and sometimes wore matching ties.

It's unclear why they fell out, but their relationship got bad and grew increasingly worse in the days leading up to this year's election where they exchanged harsh words.

Despite Mr Kenyatta missing from the public, his government announced today that the transition to the next president is in motion.