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Investigation under way into riot at African Champions League tie in Tunisia after man wields chainsaw and fans light fires in the stands.

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And we leave you with this photo from earlier, of someone paddling in the early morning at South Africa's Emmarentia Dam in central Johannesburg. It's a popular training site for canoeists.

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Jose Tembe
BBC News, Maputo

Mozambicans evacuated from war-torn Sudan have arrived in the capital, Maputo.

The evacuees include 22 students and a priest, who all spoke of their relief at being back home.

They had been expected last Wednesday, but officials said the immigration procedures in Egypt - where they had been taken by bus - had delayed things.

But student Nuro Alfredo said the hardest part had been finding a way out of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, where the rival forces have been fighting for several weeks now.

“We had to stay at the university for three days waiting to find out how to leave,” he said, explaining that even the drivers did not which route was safest to take.

“We just left, just like that. In war nobody is prepared, things happen suddenly.”

Richard Hamilton
BBC World Service newsroom

The UN has warned that prisons in Madagascar are dangerously overcrowded.

Following its first visit to the Indian Ocean island, the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture said some of the facilities were 10 times above their maximum capacity.

It said Madagascar should reconsider its penal policies, including providing alternatives to prison, to reduce what it called the grave level of overcrowding.

It described the conditions as cruel, inhuman, degrading and contrary to international law.

Jose Tembe
BBC News, Maputo

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More than 300 teachers have been without salaries for five months in the central Mozambican province of Zambezia.

A new payment system is being blamed as it requires a proof-of-life registration to be carried out to weed out ghost workers.

Joaquim Casal, the provincial education director, sought to reassure teachers that the issue was being dealt with.

“It's not a money problem, no, this is a system problem in the register,” he said.

The latest version of the bill no longer proposes outlawing people for simply identifying as LGBTQ+.

Patience Atuhaire
BBC News, Kampala

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The Ugandan soldier who shot and killed Charles Okello Engola, the deputy minister for gender and labour, has been identified as Wilson Sabiiti.

He had been assigned to the minister’s security detail a month ago.

During the shootout at Col Engola’s home on Tuesday morning, Private Sabiiti also injured the minister’s aide-de-camp Lt Ronald Otim. He is currently receiving treatment at Mulago Hospital in the capital, Kampala.

The soldier is reported to have shot in the air around the neighbourhood afterwards before killing himself.

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Liberia President George Weah has sacked Cooper Kruah a few days after the telecommunications minister attended an opposition event.

Mr Kruah is said to have gone to the opposition Unity Party political rally last Friday where it named its presidential running-mate ahead of October's general elections.

The move angered senior members of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) party, who demanded the minister to be dropped from government.

President Weah has nominated Worlea-Saywah Dunah, a veteran public servant, to replace him. His nomination - announced on Monday evening - is awaiting the senate's approval.

The elections are expected to be hotly contested with the incumbent facing strong challenges from the Unity Party's Joseph Boaka and Alexander Cummings of the Collaborating Political Parties.

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Riot police in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, have fired tear gas at opposition MPs during the latest anti-government demonstrations over a cost-of-living crisis and last year's disputed election.

Tear gas was also lobbed in Nairobi's informal settlement of Kibera, a stronghold of veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga:

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And in the western city of Kisumu, also a stronghold of Mr Odinga:

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The MPs were seeking to deliver a petition to President William Ruto over what they described as the unacceptably high cost of food, fuel and electricity.

Several vehicles were torched in Nairobi, where many officers have been deployed after the police sought to ban the demonstrations:

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Youths also set tyres ablaze to block roads in several slums:

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The same tactic was used to block roads in and out Kisumu.

Mr Odinga and President Ruto had agreed to ease political tension through dialogue after opposition protests in March turned violent.

But the process has stalled over disagreements about who should make up their negotiating teams.

Kalkidan Yibeltal
BBC News

Sudan’s warring generals have agreed “in principle” to a week's ceasfire to start from Thursday, the foreign ministry in neighbouring South Sudan, one of the countries leading peace efforts, has said.

While there is currently a three-day truce in place fighting has continued, with a major humanitarian crisis looming.

The violence between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is now in its third week - with each side accusing the other of breaching previous truces.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir stressed the importance of having a longer ceasefire to allow each side to name representatives for peace talks, the Reuters news agency reports the statement as saying.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken to leaders from neighbouring countries to find ways to resolve the violence in Sudan while the African Union urged the two factions for sustained ceasefire.

Sudan-born businessman Sir Mohammed Ibrahim has spoken to the BBC about the war in the country.

A further 334,000 people have been displaced within Sudan, but hopes rise of possible peace talks.

The paramilitary group fighting Sudan’s army says it has shot down a plane over the capital, Khartoum.

In a statement posted on Twitter, external, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) accused the army of launching air raids on the city on Tuesday morning “on a number of residential areas”.

It described the aircraft it had downed as a MiG, which is a fighter jet.

The BBC has not confirmed the information.

Alfred Lasteck
BBC News

Close to 5,000 households have been hit by the raging floods in western Kenya over the past one week, Kisumu county authorities have told the BBC.

No casualties have has been reported but there are fears that the situation could change if the rains continue fall.

Acting Kisumu county commissioner Hussein Alanson Hussein advised those living near Lake Victoria and along the River Nyando to move to higher grounds for safety.

“We will experience more rains and from what we have witnessed we want people living along the River Nyando to move to high ground for safety," he told the BBC.

Mr Hussein said the county had set up an evacuation centre where the affected families are currently taking shelter.

He called on the National Disaster Management Centre to help with supplies for it.

Many parts of the country have been experiencing rains over the last month.

Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Johannesburg

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South Africa’s prison authority has issued notice to terminate a contract with the multinational security firm G4S.

The company is responsible for running Mangaung Prison from where convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester escaped last May by faking his own death and planting a corpse in his cell.

The escape only came to light last month - until then it was thought Bester had died in a mysterious blaze in his cell.

He and his celebrity girlfriend were arrested last month in Tanzania.

G4S has admitted to security breaches at the facility but would not take responsibility for Bester’s embarrassing escape.

Its contract to run the prison was set to end in 2026.

However, Minister of Justice Ronald Lamola told MPs he was ending the contract early on the advice of lawyers.

Bester is now being held in another maximum security prison and will appear in court later this month on new charges related to the escape, including one count of murder.

Known as the "Facebook rapist" for using the social networking site to lure his victims, Bester was convicted in 2012 for the rape and murder of his then girlfriend.

A year earlier, he was found guilty of raping and robbing two other women.

More on this topic:

• The South African rapist who faked his own death to escape prison

A family fleeing the crisis were told they could not all board a flight due to visa complications.

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A bus and a lorry have reportedly been set blaze in separate incidents in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, amid protests organised by the opposition.

Police have clashed with protesters in some parts of the city, but most areas have remained calm.

In the central business district, some protest leaders who attempted to drop a petition a the president’s office were dispersed by police with teargas.

Police have been deployed around the city to maintain security.

In the western counties of Kisumu and Homa Bay, protesters blocked some roads by lighting fires.

Many shops in Kisumu were closed with traders wary of the looting and destruction witnessed during previous protests.

Patience Atuhaire
BBC News, Kampala

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Parliament in Uganda has watered down an anti-homosexuality bill that originally criminalised people for simply identifying as LGBTQ+.

The proposed legislation, first approved in March, was returned to the house after President Yoweri Museveni suggested changes.

He said the clause penalising people who identify as gay would have led to the prosecution of people simply for their physical appearance.

The bill still prescribes the death penalty for what it calls aggravated offences - such as child abuse.

The public will be required to report to the authorities any form of homosexual abuse against children or other vulnerable people.

Landlords who knowingly rent premises for homosexual acts risk going to prison for seven years.

The bill was passed with an overwhelming majority, with only one MP opposing it.

It has been widely condemned by international human rights groups.

A similar law was struck down by Uganda's constitutional court in 2014.