Police in the Kenyan capital say they are looking for a church caretaker suspected of stealing 1.5m shillings ($12,400; £11,240) which members had raised to develop the church.

Police accuse the man of breaking into the ACK All Saints Mountain View church in Kangemi, on the outskirts of Nairobi, and taking the money from a drawer at the altar.

A church elder and the treasurer were "shocked" when they went in on Monday morning to collect the money, only to find the church ransacked and the money missing, police said.

In a statement, external, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations said their initial investigations pointed to the church caretaker as the main suspect.

"He is suspected to have tampered with the church’s electric power to disable the installed CCTV system before making away with the congregants’ contributions," they said.

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South Sudan’s immigration body says it will deport more than 20 foreign nationals, mainly Eritreans and Ethiopians, who entered the country illegally.

They were arrested on arrival at Juba International Airport a few days ago and were said to have entered the country without passports or travel documents, local media reported.

The migrants had come from Sudan's capital Khartoum to seek refuge in South Sudan, and had boarded local flights to Juba from Bentiu and Paloch towns in northern South Sudan, an immigration official said.

Lt Gen Atem Marol Biar, the head of immigration at the interior ministry, said they would be deported to where they came from. He said they were arrested as they had neither travelling documents nor did they have connections with any organisation operating in South Sudan.

“We cannot continue receiving people who don’t have documents from different countries. It will put our country at risk because we don’t know the reason why they don’t have travelling documents,” local newspaper The Dawn quoted Lt Gen Biar as saying.

Local outlets said they were being detained at Kololo, a special immigration facility in Juba for foreign nationals, pending their deportation.

South Sudan is a destination for many migrants who come to do business in the oil-producing East African nation. But it finds it difficult to control the influx of illegal migrants due to its porous borders.

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BBC News, Abuja

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Peter Obi, a candidate in February’s presidential election in Nigeria, says he is waiting for the positions of labour unions – the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) – before releasing his manifesto.

Mr Obi, a candidate of the Labour Party, has been criticised for not releasing his policy plans before campaigns opened two weeks ago, which critics said signalled unpreparedness for office.

But Mr Obi told the BBC that Nigeria was not bereft of ideas or documented policies, rather it had an "institutional weakness and political will to implement good ideas and policies".

Of the three frontrunners that also includes Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), only Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has released a document of how he intends to lead Nigeria if elected.

Mr Obi, a two-time governor of Anambra state in south-east Nigeria where there are agitations by groups that want a breakaway Biafra state, said he is a firm believer in Nigeria and that his solution for the different “agitations across the country,” is to have dialogue and reach a consensus.

He said Nigeria’s number-one priority is the issue of insecurity because it has become an existential one “that must be dealt with head-on decisively”.

“If you deal with it [security] today, you deal with inflation because farmers would go back to farms and that would reduce food inflation,” he said.

You can hear the full interview on Focus on Africa radio on the BBC World Service from 17:00GMT, or watch Focus on Africa TV on BBC World News at 17:30GMT.

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• Peter Obi: The Labour Party candidate electrifying young Nigerians
• Bola Tinubu: Nigeria's APC presidential candidate
• Atiku Abubakar woos Nigerians with a reminder of the good times

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Three political parties in the rebel-held Tigray region of Ethiopia have described the African Union as ill-equipped to help end the conflict between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the federal government.

The Tigray Independent Party (TIP), the National Congress of Great Tigray (Baytona) and Salsane Weyane Tigray (SaWeT) said in a statement that the postponement of peace talks between the government and the TPLF over the weekend showed the AU was unprepared and unable to lead the negotiations.

The parties urged the United Nations, the US and the European Union to engage the AU to deliver a positive outcome.

They said the "African solution to African problems" stance by the international community had led to the loss of many lives in the conflict.

The TPLF on Monday continued to urge residents of Tigray region to join the war, saying the conflict was at a decisive stage.

South Africa is about to launch a new IPL-backed T20 league which, according to ex-Proteas skipper Graeme Smith, is vital to his country's cricketing future.

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Angolan President João Lourenço on Monday held a phone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss the conflict in Ukraine.

"The military conflict in which Ukraine has been involved since last February was the topic discussed," the Angolan presidency said a statement, external.

The Ukrainian president said they discussed important issues of co-operation within the UN, according to a tweet, external.

The pair also talked about Monday's Russia missile attacks in Ukraine, he added.

President Zelensky has been reaching out to African leaders to consolidate diplomatic support against Russia's invasion of his country.

Angola was among dozens of African countries that abstained from a UN resolution in March that condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Read more about Ukrainian and Russian diplomacy:

• Why Russia is cheering on the Burkina Faso coup

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BBC News, Abuja

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Nigeria has warned its citizens to be wary of the cough syrups linked to dozens of deaths of children in The Gambia.

The four syrups manufactured by Indian pharmaceutical company Maiden Pharmaceuticals are suspected to have been contaminated. The World Health Organization had issued a global alert over the paediatric medicines.

Nigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (Nafdac) has now asked people in Africa’s most populous country to avoid the said medicines.

In a statement, the agency says anyone who has used the "substandard products" or has suffered any adverse reaction, should seek immediate medical advice and report to the health authorities.

It says effects of the toxic substances allegedly contained in the cough syrups include abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, inability to pass urine, headache and acute kidney injury which may lead to death.

But it has not said whether the syrups have been discovered to be in circulation in the country.

The products are Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Cough Syrup and Magrip N Cold Syrup. Maiden Pharmaceuticals had failed to provide guarantees about their safety, the WHO said.

In a comment to the ANI news agency , externalMaiden said it was shocked and saddened over the incident. The company said it followed Indian health protocols and was co-operating with an investigation.

The Gambia has already started withdrawing the medicines from circulation. At least 69 deaths of children have been linked to the cough syrups there.

The WHO had expressed fears that the Gambia might not be the only country where the cough syrups had been exported to.

Read more:

• Gambia cough syrup scandal: Mothers demand justice

Lawyers in Tanzania have raised concern following reports that only 26 out of 633 students passed exams at the law school - representing a 4.1% pass rate, the Mwananchi news site reports.

Some 342 students were being told to resit exams, while 265 others were discontinued all together.

Graduates from various universities have to pass the examination at the law school in order to be admitted to the bar.

The poor performance has been blamed on poor standards at universities, the law school's administrators are quoted as saying.

Previous years had also seen a drop in performance but this year's results were the worst in recent time.

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Catholic bishops in Malawi have accused President Lazarus Chakwera's government of reneging on its promise of change in a letter of criticism released on Monday.

In the letter, the bishops say Malawi is now "worse off" compared to regional neighbours who are making "meaningful progress".

President Chakwera, a preacher turned politician, won power in 2020 promising to fight corruption and to bring prosperity.

The bishops said the country was instead witnessing rising inflation, corruption in government, youth unemployment, fuel crisis and foreign exchange shortages.

"Malawians are tired of politicians who keep fighting for political power before, during, after and in between elections without regard to the development needs of the electorate," said the letter by the Episcopal Conference, which brings together all Catholic bishops in the country.

The bishops had in March released a similar letter that spoke out against poor governance in the country.

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Africa editor, BBC World Service

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The main opposition party in Chad has described the swearing-in of the military leader, Mahamat Idriss Déby, for another two years as evidence of democratic regression.

Ndolembai Njesada - the deputy leader of "The Transformers" - also criticised a decision to allow Mr Déby to stand in the next election.

He likened it to being both a player and the referee in a football game.

Mr Njesada has threatened to set up a parallel government.

Key opposition groups and rebel forces did not take part in the recent national dialogue at which it was agreed to extend Mr Déby's time in office.

He took over power last year when his father Idriss Déby was killed during an operation against rebels.

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Doctors recruited from some of the poorest countries in the world to work in hospitals in the UK say they are facing exploitation and are so overworked they worry about putting patients’ health at risk.

A BBC investigation has found evidence that doctors from Nigeria are being targeted by a British healthcare company called NES Healthcare.

It found they are expected to work in private hospitals under conditions that are not allowed in the National Health Service - the UK's publicly funded healthcare system.

NES Healthcare disputes the BBC findings and insists it provides a safe and supportive career route.

The company says feedback about doctors' experiences with them is extremely positive.

But the British Medical Association has called some of the working conditions a disgrace to UK medicine.

Read more:

• ‘Exploited’ foreign doctors worry about risk to UK patients

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Ukraine has faced internet outages since missile attacks restarted on Monday -a drop of more than 20% was recorded yesterday by The Internet Observatory Netblocks. This loss of connectivity is not thought to be due to cyber attacks but more about physical attacks on power infrastructure. Director of Netblocks, Alp Toker, is on the show to explain what’s happened.

The boom in mobile money in Somalia Despite the worst drought in 40 years, Somalians are embracing mobile money to the point that it’s replacing formal currency. Without a central bank following the collapse of the government, the country was flooded with counterfeit money, this led to mobile money becoming popular. Two thirds of payments now being made via mobiles with 73% of the population over the age of 16 using mobile money services. Aid agencies are using the services to get money to remote rural populations in al-Shabab controlled areas impacted by the drought. We speak to Quartz East Africa Correspondent Tom Collins and Dean of Economics at SIMAD University in Mogadishu, Abdinur Ali Mohamed.

Pass me that lobster: Conjuring up the metaverse On Tuesday Meta announce their metaverse plans. The sheer volume of images needed to fill the metaverse for it to be a success cannot be left to big tech if the metaverse is going to be a success. The metaverse will also have to rely on the next generation image making tools to fill the space for everyone who wants to use it in the way they want to use it . Bill Thompson explains how we will be able to take a lobster out of our backpack in the VR future.

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Videos of primary school pupils learning practical skills such as cooking spark a nationwide debate.

Medics working in some British hospitals face “slave-type” conditions, says a doctors’ group.

Runner Philemon Kacheran Lokedi gets a three-year ban as he becomes the latest Kenyan athlete to be banned for a doping offence.

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Relatives of 10 Egyptian men say they have been sentenced for up to 18 years in jail in Saudi Arabia for trying to organise a remembrance event for the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

The men, all from Egypt’s Nubian minority, had organised similar events there without a problem.

But in December 2020 they were charged with establishing an association without a licence and showing solidarity with the Muslim Brotherhood - designated a terrorist organisation in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Amnesty International, which has campaigned for their release, has denounced the proceedings as a “travesty of justice”.

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BBC World Service News

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A judge in Guinea has rejected a request from a former military ruler, Moussa Dadis Camara, that he be placed under house arrest rather than remain in prison during his trial for mass murder.

Captain Camara was returned to the country last month after 12 years in exile.

He's on trial together with 10 other former officials over atrocities that took place in 2009 soon after he seized power.

He's charged with being responsible for the killing by soldiers of more than 150 people and the rape of more than 100 women at an opposition rally in a Conakry stadium.

Captain Camara has denied the charges.