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Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says a federal high court has ordered the final seizure of properties owned by former petroleum resources minister Diezani Alison-Madueke.

This is the latest court ruling related to corruption allegations against her - charges she denies.

Ms Alison-Madueke served as Nigeria's petroleum minister between 2010 and 2015, and was a key figure in the administration of the former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Her whereabouts are unclear, but she was last known to be in Britain.

The assets being seized include houses and cars worth $3m (£2.6m).

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Harshinder Sirah left her home in 1972 after dictator Idi Amin forced 80,000 people to flee.

Nujuum Hashi has overcome traditional prejudice to become a respected artist in Somalia.

The alleged rape and murder of 12-year-old Lola by an illegal migrant has inflamed French politics.

That's all for now from the BBC Africa Live team, but we'll be back on Tuesday morning.

Until then you can find the latest updates on the BBC News website, or listen to our podcasts Africa Today and The Comb.

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Peter Jegwa
Lilongwe, Malawi

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A young woman in Malawi has had her academic qualifications revoked after a video, in which she was seen burning her university degree as a show of frustration that she could not find a job, went viral on social media.

Privately-run Exploits University in the capital, Lilongwe, told Bridget Thapwile Soko that it was disappointed with the video because it tarnished the image of the institution and said it had decided to invalidate her learner’s degree certificate with immediate effect.

Ms Soko was awarded a degree in business administration upon completing a four year course with the university but was heard in the video saying she had decided to burn it because she saw no value in it.

Unemployment is a serious problem in Malawi and was one of the key campaign issues in the last general election. President Lazarus Chakwera, then an opposition leader, promised he would create a million jobs in his first year in office.

The president’s team claims the majority of those jobs have been created, but the opposition say unemployment numbers have in fact increased.

In most anti-government protests that have recently been held across Malawi, many youth are seen carrying placards demanding jobs.

But the revocation of Bridget’s certificate has ignited a huge debate on social media about unemployment and the suitability of education offered in institutions of higher learning.

The Foreign Press Association, Africa (FPAA) has released a statement about the killing of a prominent Pakistani journalist in Kenya on Sunday.

The group said the circumstances surrounding Arshad Sharif's killing were "particularly worrying".

Mr Sharif was shot dead by police at a roadblock.

He was a critic of Pakistan's military as well as a vocal supporter of ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan.

The 49-year-old had left Pakistan in August after complaining of harassment.

It is not known what he was doing in Kenya.

The FPAA called on Kenya's authorities to conduct a "comprehensive" investigation, saying Mr Sharif's killing had "robbed the media fraternity globally of a dedicated and forthright journalist".

The Kenyan police has said that they are investigating and "appropriate action" would be taken.

You can read more about the killing of Arshad Sharif here.

Following nationwide protests, reporter Ishaq Khalid explains how Chad has got to this point.

Forward Asisat Oshoala welcomes Nigeria's 2023 Women's World Cup draw, which pits them against co-hosts Australia and Olympic champions Canada.

Nichola Mandil
BBC News, Juba

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An official with the South Sudan Human Rights Commission has warned that large scale inter-communal violence is "claiming lives" and "displacing hundreds of thousands and destroying their properties and livelihoods".

Beny Gideon Mabor made the comments in a statement delivered during a meeting of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, Gambia, on Sunday.

It marks the first statement from the South Sudan human rights body acknowledging the gravity of the ongoing violence in the country.

The statement also recognised that the implementation of the revitalised peace agreement which was signed in September 2018 to end five years of the conflict “remains slow”.

There was also a warning about how "communal violence threatens total breakdown of social fabric amongst and between ethnic groups with no history of violence between them.

“The Jieeng (Dinka) ethnic communities of Twic and Ngok of Bahr El-Ghazal region are attacking each other in scale and brutality never seen before. The Shilluk and Nuer ethnic groups in Upper Nile are also fighting each other, same as worrisome tensions between the Murle and the Jieeng in Jonglei State, respectively,” Mr Gideon continued. He said this unprecedented surge in violence requires swift deployment of the necessary unified forces to protect civilians and their properties.

Late month, a UN panel of experts on human rights in South Sudan said incidents of rape had become common in the country and women who are victims were no longer bothering to report about repeated sexual violence.

However, Mr Gideon did not highlight sexual violence in his presentation.

Peter Mwai
BBC Reality Check

Information collected by US space agency, Nasa, appears to corroborate the claim by the Tanzanian authorities that much of the fire on the slopes of Africa’s highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, has been contained.

Nasa’s Fire Information for Resource Management System, which uses satellite data to detect thermal hot spots, showed a fire burning in just one place on Sunday.

The system doesn’t indicate any active fire in the location on Monday – although it’s possible the latest data has not yet been uploaded.

The most recent aerial satellite image of the fire – taken on Sunday - doesn’t give us a clear enough view of what’s happened because of cloud cover.

However, a satellite image from Saturday showed a thick cloud of smoke rising, with the fire burning across a length of about 3 km (1.9 miles).

The fire comes two years after a week-long inferno destroyed thousands of hectares of woodland on Mount Kilimanjaro's slopes.

Mount Kilimanjaro, which is 5,895m (19,341ft) high, is a popular tourist destination and tens of thousands of people climb it every year.

Read more about the fire here.

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The Sudanese military authorities have set up a committee to investigate recent violence in the southern Blue Nile state, where nearly 200 people were killed and thousands displaced, the state-owned news agency Suna website reports.

The killings followed fighting between the Hausa and other local tribes, which escalated last week.

Military spokesperson Col Nabil Abdullah says the committee formed will investigate and evaluate the security situation.

The authorities have also set up a new military command for the Blue Nile state in efforts to contain the ethnic conflict.

The state authorities declared a state of emergency on Friday, in efforts to resolve the clashes.

Clashes between the Hausa and Birta ethnic groups started in mid-July over land dispute in the Wad al-Mahi district.

Similar violence in July in the state left more than 200 people dead and many more displaced in the region.

Read more:

• Hausas in Sudan: The pilgrims' descendants fighting for acceptance

Arhsad Sharif is killed by a Kenyan police officer when his vehicle fails to stop at a roadblock.

Plymouth Argyle's Zimbabwe defender Brendan Galloway says he is happy to be fully fit after missing nine months with a serious knee injury.

Jose Tembe
BBC News, Maputo

Rwandan security forces involved in counter-terrorism operations in Mozambique’s gas-rich northern Cabo Delgado province have discovered an arms cache abandoned by jihadists. It was the secnd such find within the past seven days.

The arms were found in Limala forest, south-east of Mocimboa da Praia district - formerly a stronghold of the jihadists before they were evicted by Mozambican and Rwandan forces in August 2021.

A statement from the Rwandan defence ministry says the Islamist insurgents linked to the Islamic State group have tried "several times to return to retrieve the weapons without success".

The first arsenal of weapons and ammunition hidden by the jihadists was discovered on 15 October, in the dense forest region of Mbau.

The Rwandan forces have been in an operation to prevent the jihadists from returning and rearming themselves into the area for further insurgent actions.

The jihadists were driven out of Palma and Mocímboa da Praia, the two districts under the responsibility of the Rwandan security forces, but they remain in neighbouring districts.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called on Kenya to conduct a "fair & transparent investigation" into the killing of renowned Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif on Sunday night.

The prime minister tweeted that he had just had a phone call with Kenya's President William Ruto to discuss the killing of the journalist near the capital, Nairobi, on Sunday night.

Mr Ruto promised "all-out help", including fast-tracking the process of returning the body to Pakistan.

An initial police report said officers shot the journalist while he was in a moving vehicle in a case of mistaken identity.

Police said they were still investigating and "appropriate action" would be taken.

You can read more about the death of Arshad Sharif here.

Egypt's president has pardoned an ex-MP and well-known activist who played a prominent role during the 2011 protests which saw the downfall of ex-President Hosni Mubarak.

Zyad el-Elaimy was jailed in 2020 for allegedly spreading fake news.

He is viewed as a secular figure who had previously told the AFP news agency that he was fighting for "social justice" and "human dignity".

The move to pardon him comes just weeks before Egypt hosts the COP27 climate summit.

Mr El-Elaimy's release is the latest in a recent string of political prisoners that Egypt has pardoned, the AFP news agency reports.

Of late, Egypt has been trying to soften its human rights image through extending olive branches to political critics. Opponents, however, want authorities to go further.

Guy Bandolo
BBC News

Gunmen have released worshippers and priests who were abducted from a Catholic church in South-West Cameroon after 45 days of captivity.

A spokesman for the Cameroonian Episcopal Conference confirmed the release of the nine abductees on Sunday.

The victims were taken away last month after gunmen stormed St Mary Catholic Church in Nchang parish. The attackers later burnt the church.

In a statement, Bishop Aloysius Fondong thanked all those who helped in negotiating the release and safety of the abductees.

Ahead of their release, one of the abducted priests was filmed thanking the “freedom fighters of Ambazonia” - a separatist armed group in English-speaking regions of Cameroon.

He added that they were released without paying ransom.

The BBC has not been able to independently verify the claim while the circumstances of their release have not been officially communicated.

Two days before the release, a video emerged of the captives pleading with the Catholic Church to come to their rescue.

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The US and the UK have issued a stark warning over the risk of terror attacks in Nigeria, with the US embassy in Abuja telling people to "avoid all non-essential travel or movement".

The US embassy said there was a long list of potential targets, including: "Government buildings, places of worship, schools, markets, shopping malls, hotels, bars, restaurants, athletic gatherings, transport terminals, law enforcement facilities, and international organizations".

The US also said Abuja is at special risk of being attacked.

In a security notice it tells people to stay alert and avoid crowds to keep safe.

Meanwhile the UK government warned that "attacks could be indiscriminate and could affect western interests, as well as places visited by tourists".

Nigeria is facing rising insecurity. Back in July more than 400 prisoners went missing after a prison break which Islamist militants claimed responsibility for.

At the time Defence Minister Bashir Magashi told reporters that 64 jailed jihadists had escaped from the prison.

The government of outgoing President Buhari is facing increasing criticism for its failure to tackle the country's widespread insecurity with armed kidnapping gangs and militant groups unleashing violence.

Just last week, the First Lady apologised in an interview with the BBC, saying that her husband's administration tried their best, but may not have lived up to what people expected.

Read more about insecurity in Nigeria:

• Nigeria Kuje prison break: More than 400 missing from Abuja jail
• Nigeria's security crises - five different threats