The UNAid's executive director, Winnie Byanyima, has lashed out at a Ugandan MP saying he lacks "the skills, competence & integrity of an MP".

MP Mwesigye Frank had accused the opposition leader Bobi Wine of double-speak using Ms Byanyima's photos.

The UN boss, who is a Ugandan national and married to politician Kizza Besigye, had met President Yoweri Museveni and later took a photo with Bobi Wine.

The MP shared her photos suggesting that she had met both leaders at the same venue.

Ms Byanyima clarified that she had first met the president and later in the day ran into the opposition leader at the airport.

Here is her tweet calling out the MP:

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Burkina Faso's government says 11 soldiers were found dead and around 50 civilians are missing following a suspected jihadist attack on a convoy.

Twenty-eight other people, including 20 soldiers, were wounded in the Monday attack and a search for the missing people is ongoing.

The vehicles, which were escorted by a military patrol, had been taking supplies to residents in the north of the country.

The ambush followed an attack on another army-supported convoy on Sunday that wounded four people.

Burkina Faso's military government took power in a coup last January, promising to end an Islamist insurgency which has killed thousands of people and displaced two million more since 2015.

Read more: Did the coup halt jihadist attacks?

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Lawyers for Guinea's former president, Moussa Dadis Camara, say he has been sent to jail ahead of his trial for his alleged role in a stadium massacre 13 years ago.

His co-accused will also be detained until the end of the trial, which starts on Wednesday.

An international commission found that 156 people were killed and thousands injured during the opposition protest. More than 100 women were raped.

Witnesses said the security forces blocked the stadium and shot people or killed them with knives.

Mr Camara denies the allegations.

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And we leave you with this photo of a group of young boys out at sea helping their mothers harvest seaweed and carry it back home in the island of Zanzibar.

A top member of South Africa's governing African National Congress has dismissed a possible run by Jacob Zuma, the country's former president, for the powerful post of party chairman as "the biggest joke of the year."

Mr Zuma, as we reported earlier, said in a statement that he had been approached by party members to take up the position ahead of its national conference in December.

“He was my president for 10 years. I was his secretary for 10 years. I take that as the biggest joke of the year, actually. If JZ, at 81 [years old], wants to contest chairperson of the ANC, I take it as a joke," Gwede Mantashe, the party's current national chairman, who's running for re-election, told journalists on Tuesday.

The former president is backing his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to become ANC's president, a position held by his successor Cyril Rampahosa.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has criticised the EU parliament after it called on his government to halt a strategic oil pipeline project with neighbouring Tanzania.

Two weeks ago EU lawmakers passed a resolution warning of human rights abuses and the social and environmental risk posed by the project.

"Some of these EU MPs are insufferable and so wrong that they think they know everything but should calm down," Mr Museveni said at at the annual Uganda International oil & gas summit on Tuesday.

He added: "This is the wrong battleground for them. I hope our partners join us firmly and advise them. For us, we’re moving forward with our programme."

Mr Museveni has touted the oil pipeline project as one that would boost the country's economic development.

Rights groups say some 100,000 people risk being displaced and have urged the contractors, France's Total Energies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, to pause the $10bn (£8bn) project until they find an alternative route.

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline project will stretch 1,443km (896 miles) from Lake Albert in western Uganda to the Tanzanian port of Tanga on the Indian Ocean.

Kenya's President William Ruto has unveiled a 22-member cabinet two weeks after he was sworn in as the country's fifth president.

The team consists of well-known politicians, some ardent supporters and new faces.

The initial public reaction has been mixed; some have praised the team, others have pointed out that some of the members are facing charges in court or have tainted reputations.

Others have pointed out that Mr Ruto has broken a campaign promise to name a gender-equal cabinet.

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An international medical charity says there is a catastrophic health crisis in north-western Nigeria.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said extraordinarily high numbers of children were suffering from acute malnutrition.

MSF has treated about 100,000 children with the condition since the beginning of the year; 17,000 required hospital care.

The charity said the humanitarian response had been poor, with greater attention focused on north-eastern Nigeria, where there has been a long-running Islamist insurgency.

The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has ended six weeks after it was first declared, the World Health Organization has announced.

There had been only one confirmed case in the outbreak in the eastern province of North Kivu.

This is the end of DR Congo's 15th outbreak of the fatal viral haemorrhagic fever which was first discovered in the country - then called Zaire - in 1976.

Neighbouring Uganda is currently dealing with an outbreak of the virus, first reported last week.

The Ebola vaccine developed to deal with the novel strain is not effective against the Sudan variant that is spreading Uganda.

At least 23 deaths have been reported in Uganda.

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Nigeria’s anti-narcotics agency has destroyed a batch of 1.8 tonnes of cocaine, its biggest ever seizure, that was discovered last week in a warehouse in the Ikorodu area, north-east of the commercial hub, Lagos.

The bust was estimated to be worth more than $270m (£240m).

Four Nigerian men aged 69, 65, and two 53-year-olds were arrested in different parts of the commercial city. A foreign nation was also detained.

The suspects were brought to the scene to witness and sign the certificate of destruction of the 1,800 blocks of cocaine.

A small batch that was retained will be used in their prosecution.

The head of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said in a statement that the agency had made some progress in its fight against illegal drugs.

“In the past 20 months, arrested and jailed drug offenders have forfeited 249 luxury cars and we blocked 600 drug related bank accounts”, Baba Marwa said.

Nigeria has recently recorded several drug busts and secured high-profile arrests.

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Lawyers representing a former rebel commander accused of committing atrocities in the Central African Republic are outlining his defence at the International Criminal Court.

Mahamat Said Abdel Kani is accused of running a detention centre where people suspected of supporting the former president, Francois Bozize, were tortured.

He denies the charges.

Mr Kani was in court to see his lawyers complain that the case was based on presumptions and was bound to fail.

On Monday, the prosecutor presented photographs of the alleged torture of civilians.

The Central African Republic has been in chaos since Mr Bozize was overthrown in 2013 by a mainly-Muslim rebel group.

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BBC News, Lagos

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As we reported earlier, Nigeria's National Human Rights Commission has recommended the dismissal and prosecution of a number of police officer for torture, extra-judicial killings and illegal detentions two years after mass anti-police brutality protests under the banner of #EndSars.

For many of those young people who took to the streets in 2020, that would have signalled justice was being served.

But so far the response to the announcement from the rights commission has been muted.

It has barely been covered in local media or discussed online.

Privately, some Nigerians have expressed scepticism that this will actually result in police officers being prosecuted.

Or perhaps the lack of response is due to the fact that no officer has yet been named. The number of officers involved hasn’t even been revealed.

It’s also worth noting that this panel was investigating police abuses at a national level, a very broad remit which may not have had the buy-in local panels had, particularly because the commission is affiliated with the federal government.

But what the response, or lack thereof, to this announcement makes clear is that firstly two years on, it’s going to take more than press releases for the supporters of #EndSars to engage with any reform announcements from the authorities. Many are still waiting for tangible results.

Secondly between political campaigns, a poor economic outlook for the country and worsening security, there is a lot of competition for the attention of Nigerians and the #EndSars movement may no longer be top of their concerns.

Read more:

• End Sars protests: The young Nigerians who forced the president to back down
• Nigeria’s #EndSars protests: What happened next

Two of Mali's team at the Women's Basketball World Cup react to their elimination by fighting one another in front of the world's media.

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BBC News, Kampala

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The president of the Uganda Medical Association has expressed support for medical workers who have taken industrial action, accusing the government of not creating a safe working environment for them to handle the ongoing Ebola outbreak.

Dr Sam Oledo, the president of the professional grouping of all medical workers in the country says that while doctors are dedicated to keep offering care, they need to be safe first.

“Health workers are demotivated and worried. All the medical workers in the Ebola hot spots must have the safety kit."

"They have to be fully dressed up in a mask, goggles, apron, rubber boots, and double surgical gloves. In the first days of the outbreak several of our colleagues were exposed to the virus. Two medics who worked on a surgical case and are now showing symptoms of Ebola,” Dr Oledo said.

At least seven medical workers have potentially been exposed to the virus.

Dr Oledo added that the striking interns need to be assured of a risk allowance.

“The risk allowances even for health workers who handled Covid-19 were never paid. This is worse, and yet there are no resources available,” he said.

He also said that the Ebola hot spots should be put under quarantine to avoid further spread.

He argued that the government needs to allocate resources to take care of staff recruitment, because hospitals in the areas facing the outbreak have very lean staff, adding, “let there be a structure for disease and epidemic control in hospitals. There should be teams which are consistently there in case of an outbreak.”

The health ministry is expected to meet with the medical workers on Tuesday afternoon to look at a way forward, even though a ministry spokesperson told the BBC on Monday that there was no strike at Mubende hospital, east of the capital, Kampala, which is hosting the main Ebola isolation centre.

An outbreak of the Ebola Sudan strain was declared in the central region of the country last week. At least 36 cases have been recorded, 23 of which ended in death.

Pitso Mosimane says he can help fallen Saudi giants Al-Ahli return to the top after agreeing a two-year deal.

Museums and archaeological sites in Egypt are free to visitors today to mark the 200th anniversary of the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone, which unlocked the secrets of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.

The stele is inscribed with three versions of a decree issued about 200 BC.

One is in ancient Greek which enabled a French linguist Jean-Francois Champollion to translate hieroglyphics for the first time.

The Rosetta Stone had been found in Memphis in Egypt in 1799 by a French military officer, but was subsequently taken by British forces and shipped to England.

It was then given to the British Museum where it remains.

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BBC Africa, Freetown

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Fatima Bio, the wife of Sierra Leone’s president, Julius Maada Bio, has said her husband holds a PhD degree in staging coups therefore nobody can overthrow him.

She was referring to the violent protests of 10 August in opposition strongholds which left 31 people killed including six police officers.

The president blamed the protests – which were generally about the high cost of living – on the opposition alleging that they were part of a plot to overthrow him, leading to the dismissal of the top three in the army.

Speaking over the weekend at a fundraising event in the US, Mrs Bio accused unnamed people of wanting to overthrow her husband.

“Maada Bio has a PhD in coup d’état, can you remove him?” she asked rhetorically, before reiterating: “The man has a PhD in [staging] coups, how can you remove someone who teaches people how to stage a coup?," the first lady said in a video shared on Facebook., external

Mrs Bio was making an apparent reference to the fact that her husband first came to power in April 1992 as part of a group of young military officers who overthrew the civilian government of Joseph Saidu Momoh of the All People’s Congress, the party he defeated at the polls in 2018 and whom he accused of being behind the August protests.

The opposition party vehemently denied the allegations.

Many have condemned the statement with some of the moderate elements within her Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) condemning it.

Mrs Bio, a prolific user of Facebook and TikTok, has been known to make controversial comments.

She has not responded to the reactions following her coup comments, nor has anyone at the presidency.

Kenya's new President William Ruto has chaired his first cabinet meeting attended by some ministers who openly opposed his presidential bid.

The Tuesday meeting at State House, Nairobi, was attended by all outgoing ministers.

It came as the new administration grapples with drought and security situations in the northern parts of the country.

President Ruto is expected to name his new cabinet in the coming days and had promised during the election campaigns a 50:50 gender representation among ministers.

The president's office has tweeted pictures of the meeting: