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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has extended his stay in London by a week for dental treatment, his aide has said.

The president had initially travelled to the UK capital last week to attend the coronation of King Charles III.

He was scheduled to return to Nigeria this week but will now stay on "at the behest of his dentist, who has started attending to him”.

“The specialist requires to see the president in another five days for a procedure already commenced," presidential spokesperson Femi Adesina said in a statement released on Tuesday night.

The president's extended stay has sparked criticism from some at home, who say that he should prioritise domestic issues - including its security challenges.

Since coming to office in 2015, Mr Buhari has travelled to the UK on a number of occasions for undisclosed medical reasons.

He is scheduled to hand over to President-elect Bola Tinubu on 29 May.

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Investigators in Kenya have exhumed 21 more bodies, after they restarted a search for victims of a doomsday cult.

The new discoveries bring the total of those known to have died to 133.

Hundreds of others have been reported missing.

Pastor Paul Mackenzie, the leader of the Good News International Church, is awaiting trial, accused of ordering his followers to starve themselves to death.

Kenya's interior minister, Kithure Kindiki, said they were investigating allegations that body parts may have been removed from some of the corpses for organ harvesting.

Bad weather had delayed the resumption of the search operation in the Shakahola forest

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The Tunisian authorities have recovered 14 bodies of migrants off the coast of the country in the last 24 hours.

The migrants were from sub-Saharan countries attempting to reach the shores of Italy, according to local media. They did not specify whether the 14 migrants were travelling on the same boat or in separate groups.

Tunisia has become a main route for migrants who wish to make it to Europe, with UN figures showing at least 12,000 migrants who landed on Italy's shores this year had left from Tunisia.

That figure was just 1,300 in the same time period last year.

The number of people internally displaced by fighting has more than doubled in a week, the UN says.

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BBC News, Harare

Zimbabwe's government will no longer be forced to disclose information to the public about its procurement of medicines, medical and construction equipment, according to a gazette by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Critics say the move violates the right to freedom of information.

Entitled "Special Procurements in the Public Interest – Health Sector", the gazette lists biomedical equipment, vehicles including ambulances, laboratory equipment, chemicals, hospital protective equipment as "of national interest" adding that details of their disposal and procurement shall not be publicly disclosed.

Zimbabwe’s public healthcare sector is poorly funded and often has shortages of syringes and antibiotics.

It is not clear whether the government is planning large-scale expenditure in the health sector without having to disclose the details.

State procurements worth over $1m (£790,000) are usually required to go to public tender.

The main opposition party, the Citizen’s Coalition for Change, called for transparency and questioned why the acquisition of public property should be hidden. It said the secrecy would promote corruption.

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Female Muslim students from five schools in The Gambia have taken legal action against their schools at the high court in Banjul, after accusing them of “forcefully” removing their veils.

Some of the schools in the lawsuit are Christian but most of their students are Muslims.

The pupils said the alleged actions of their schools caused them emotional distress and embarrassment and are demanding compensation of more than $300,000 (£238,000).

The students added that the alleged incidents violated their fundamental human rights and subjected them to harassment.

They are also demanding authorities pass a law to allow them to wear veils in schools.

The BBC contacted the principal of one of the schools, but they refused to comment.

The Gambia is a majority Muslim country but also has a minority Christian population.

After receiving a three-year doping ban, Nijel Amos says he is looking to sell his silver medal from London 2012 to support his family.

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The medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says there has been a huge rise in sexual violence targeting women in camps around Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).

MSF says in the past two weeks, it had treated more than 670 victims - an average of 50 incidents every day.

It said most of the women were assaulted while searching for firewood outside camps for internally displaced people.

The MSF regional coordinator, Jason Rizzo, said teams have been treating a high number of cases for months, but never before on the "catastrophic scale" of recent weeks.

Fighting between government forces and rebel groups in the region has forced hundreds of thousands to flee to overcrowded camps.

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Wildlife authorities in central India say a female cheetah, that was relocated from Africa, has died at the Kuno National Park.

It is the third big cat that had been brought from Africa to have died there there since March.

The park said the female was found injured on Tuesday morning but died at noon despite treatment by veterinarians.

Preliminary reports showed she died from injuries inflicted by two male cheetahs.

Asian cheetahs became extinct in India seven decades ago, but the government released eight African cheetahs there last year as part of an ambitious project to reintroduce the big cats.

Another 12 cheetahs from South Africa were brought in earlier this year.

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The South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party has asked for donations to “finance the revolution” ahead of the party's 10th anniversary.

On its social media pages, external, the EFF on Monday shared a recorded video of its leader Julius Malema asking for donations from "peace-loving South Africans and revolutionaries from the African continent and the diaspora".

Mr Malema asked for donations of cows, vegetables, groceries, T-shirts and buses for the anniversary celebration at FNB Stadium south of Johannesburg, on 29 July.

“We call upon all of you to make donations to the EFF because we must finance our own revolution. If we don't finance our own revolution, counter-revolutionaries will hijack it,” Mr Malema said.

The EFF listed its "successes" in the past 10 years as motivation for people to donate, with Mr Malema asking as little as 10 rand ($0.54; £0.43) to finance the party.

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A court document filed by police investigating Kenya cult deaths says autopsies showed some organs were missing from bodies exhumed from shallow graves.

"Post-mortem reports have established missing organs in some of the bodies of victims who have been exhumed," chief inspector Martin Munene said in an affidavit filed to a Nairobi court.

It said that “it is believed that trade on human body organs has been well co-ordinated involving several players”.

But chief government pathologist Johansen Oduor had earlier ruled out organ harvesting following autopsies on 112 bodies in his final report on Friday.

Interior minister Kithure Kindiki said on Tuesday that “on the issue of missing body parts theory, I think investigations are still going on… I’m advised by the experts that we should not pre-empt the investigations…it’s a theory we are investigating”.

Most of the victims, including children, died of starvation but some were strangled, beaten, or suffocated, according to the pathologist.

The main suspect in the case, Pastor Paul Mackenzie, is alleged to have encouraged his followers to fast to death in order to go to heaven. He has previously denied to have forced them into the fast.

A fresh round of exhumations in the expansive 800-acre forest in the coastal Kilifi county resumed on Tuesday in an exercise supervised by the interior minister.

The Kenyan Red Cross says that 360 people had been reported missing, while the authorities say at least 60 others have been rescued alive.

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There's been a further landslide caused by heavy rainfall in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).

Six people are confirmed dead and more than 100 workers are feared trapped inside a mine which collapsed near the town of Rubaya in North Kivu province.

Floods and mudslides that hit two villages on the shores of Lake Kivu last week are known to have killed at least 400 people.

Thousands more are reported missing.

In a BBC interview, a government spokesman, Patrick Muyaya, defended the handling of the crisis, amid criticism of the authorities being too slow to respond and using mass graves to bury the dead.

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Zimbabwe has discovered oil and gas deposits during exploration in the northern Cabora Bassa region.

An analysis of five mud gas samples collected from the Upper Angwa reservoir during the drilling of the Mukuyu-1 well between September and December showed "light oil" and "very rich gas", according to Invictus Energy, an Australian firm.

Invictus Energy managing director Scott Macmillan said they hoped to get better results from deeper drilling.

The sample also showed a consistent high quality natural gas composition containing low amounts of carbon dioxide and helium gas.

The discovery of oil and gas is vital for Zimbabwe having channelled resources into the mining sector in the recent past to boost its economic growth.

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Ivorian footballer Yaya Touré has spoken out against his former agent over comments he made to the UK's Mirror newspaper, external referencing a "curse" against Manchester City's boss Pep Guardiola.

"The spell has now been lifted by the shamans - and that I think City will win the Champions League under Pep," Dimitri Seluk said.

Mr Seluk allegedly asked for a curse to be placed on Mr Guardiola to stop him from winning the Champions League because of his past treatment of Mr Touré. He has now told the Mirror he is sorry about the entire matter.

Whilst playing for Manchester City back in 2018, Mr Touré accused Mr Guardiola of having a problem with African players. At the time of the comments, neither Manchester City nor Mr Guardiola made any comment, according to the Guardian newspaper., external

The Ivorian later apologised for his comments in an interview with the Athletic, calling them "wrong"., external

Writing on Twitter, external, Mr Touré said he doesn't want to be associated "with this nonsense and lazy stereotypes about African curses.

"This man does not represent me in any way. Amplifying these stereotypes is harmful," he added.

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A teenage boy died on Monday after he and his friend were reportedly playing with a gun that was accidentally discharged in Stanger, KwaZulu-Natal province.

The 14-year-old was declared dead on the scene by medics, local media said.

"Fortunately, the second boy sustained no injuries during this horrific incident," said IPSS, a local medical service and rescue provider.

Police are investigating the circumstances of the shooting.