Animal trafficker incriminates himself on Whatsapp call with undercover investigators.

The chief executive of Sama says it will no longer take work involving moderating harmful content.

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Zeinab Mohammed Salih
Journalist, Omdurman

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Sudan’s army has been attacking an area of Omdurman city where a traditional healer has been treating injured paramilitary fighters.

Ten people died in shelling on Monday, which marked four months since the start of the brutal power struggle between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Since the war began the RSF has moved into bases in many residential areas of the three cities that make up Greater Khartoum - Bahri, Khartoum and Omdurman - that are often targeted by air strikes and shelling.

One shell, fired from the nearby Karari military base, hit a small square in Omdurman’s Ombada 19 suburb where young men were seeking shade from the heat.

A separate shell hit a restaurant owner’s home, killing his son.

Another shell was fired towards the traditional healer’s house on Tuesday, but it did not explode.

The attacks cut internet connections, which only returned later on Tuesday.

The home of the traditional healer, who was not harmed, has become a clinic of sorts during the war - a consequence of 80% of hospitals having to close because of the fighting.

She is known to deal with bone fractures and has recently been treating RSF personnel.

Traditional healing is popular in Sudan - many believe this method is better than modern medicine for treating broken bones.

Ombada 19 is also home to members of the Rizeigat ethnic group.

They originally hail from Darfur, like RSF leader Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who is a Rizeigat as are many of his fighters.

RSF soldiers are often seen carrying rifles in and around the neighbourhood, where hundreds of people have fled because of the latest attacks.

But Ombada 19 resident Hawa Adam, who has fled with her young son to find shelter at a stranger’s house in a safer area, said: “I really don’t know why they shelled our neighbourhood. There’s not a single RSF fighter here.”

On Sunday, a separate area of Omdurman, Ombada 16, was hit by an airstrike. Three young men, two brothers and a neighbour, were killed, a neighbourhood organisation said.

Richard Hamilton
BBC World Service Newsroom

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International aid agencies have warned that, four months into the conflict in Sudan, the situation is spiralling out of control, with mass displacement and millions on the verge of famine.

In a joint statement, the heads of 20 global organisations said 14 million children needed humanitarian aid and more than four million people had fled their homes.

They called on the warring parties to end the fighting and ensure safe access for the delivery of aid.

The region of Darfur and the capital, Khartoum, have been plagued by clashes between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Nduka Orjinmo
BBC News, Abuja

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he has spoken to President Bola Tinubu about the ongoing situation in Niger.

Monday’s call was the third in three weeks between high-level US officials and Abuja since putschists seized power in the West African country.

President Tinubu is the chairman of regional bloc Ecowas which is leading efforts to reinstate deposed President Mohamed Bazoum and is assembling troops for the possible use of military force in Niamey.

In a Twitter post, Mr Blinken said he called President Tinubu to “commend his leadership of the Economic Community of West African States and discussed shared efforts to restore constitutional order in Niger”.

The US is among a host of western countries that have military bases in Niger, seen as important in the fight against spreading Islamist insurgency in the Sahel.

Many ordinary citizens in West African are strongly opposed to any military intervention in Niger and there was a mild protest over the weekend in Kano, northern Nigeria’s main city, against the use of force.

Nduka Orjinmo
BBC News, Abuja

Nigerian authorities have cracked down on the country's advertising regulator, after a billboard went up saying "All Eyes on The Judiciary" in some Nigerian cities, ahead of a ruling by the tribunal hearing petitions on February’s presidential election.

The director and the deputy director of Advertising Standard Panel have been suspended for the billboard that was deemed as a means to blackmail the judiciary:

Mayeni Jones
BBC News

The West African economic and political bloc, Ecowas, says the region’s army chiefs will meet in Ghana later this week.

The meeting is reportedly to discuss a possible intervention in Niger, where a junta held a coup last month.

This meeting had previously been postponed for technical reasons.

Now regional democracies seem willing to discuss military intervention in Niger, something analysts say could destabilise an already volatile region.

Over the weekend there was hope for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis in Niger, following a meeting between the head of the junta, Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani, and a group of influential Islamic clerics.

But the next day, the tone shifted - the organisers of the coup alleged democratically-elected President Mohamed Bazoum had committed acts of treason, and claimed to have enough evidence to prosecute him.

The move has been condemned by Ecowas and the UN.

The head of neighbouring Mali’s interim military government says he has spoken to President Vladimir Putin over the phone about the crisis in Niger, and that Mr Putin underlined the importance of a peaceful resolution to the situation in Niger to ensure a more stable Sahel.

Peter Mwai
BBC Verify

A video showing oil bubbling up from the ground in a desert area has been widely shared online, with users falsely claiming it shows a major oil discovery in Niger. Some social media users further claimed that this was the reason Western countries wanted to reverse the recent military takeover, allegedly to exert control over Niger and its resources.

Niger currently produces around 20,000 barrels of oil per day.

But the video is not from Niger, and comes from Libya. We found that the earliest version was from an account which posted it on TikTok two weeks ago, saying it was in southern Libya. It has had millions of views.

This same TikTok account has posted other videos showing vehicles with Libyan licence plates, further evidence of the likely location. They have also posted a different video showing a similar oil leak from the ground, again with the text saying it’s from southern Libya.

This video only started being linked to events in Niger in the last week or so, by an account openly supporting the military leaders there. President Mohamed Bazoum was a key ally in the fight against Islamist militancy in West Africa, and European countries and the US have condemned his overthrow.

Alfred Lasteck
BBC News, Dar es Salaam

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RIghts group Amnesty International is calling on Tanzania to release three people arrested for criticising a deal that the government made with United Arab Emirates to run all of the African nation's ports.

Willibrod Slaa, a former ambassador and opposition leader, the opposition activist Mdude Nyagali, and lawyer Boniface Mwabukusi were arrested over the weekend.

Mr Mwabukusi had led a court petition arguing that the deal undermined the constitution, national sovereignty and security. Mr Mwabukusi and Mr Nyagali were arrested after holding a news conference in Dar es Salaam criticising the port agreement.

All three men have been denied bail and were told they would be charged with treason, say their lawyers, which carries a mandatory death penalty. The authorities have not commented publicly on the charges.

Amnesty now says "the authorities must stop arbitrarily detaining activists simply for peacefully expressing their views", asking them to "immediately and unconditionally release these activists".

Richard Hamilton
BBC World Service newsroom

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The Malian music star Salif Keïta has been appointed special adviser to the head of Mali's military junta.

The internationally renowned singer-songwriter has been named as one of five such aides to Col Assimi Goïta, who ousted the elected president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, in 2020.

The decree does not give details about his new role.

The 73-year-old year old musician - referred to as the Golden Voice of Africa - has been a supporter of the junta, endorsing its narrative of national sovereignty and calling for the departure of UN peacekeeping troops.

Last week he announced he was stepping down from a junta-appointed legislature.

Wedaeli Chibelushi
BBC News

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The former economist who coined the acronym Bric - which stands for Brazil, Russia, India and China - has told the Financial Times, external the group of countries that the term refers to has "never achieved anything since they first started meeting".

It is now called Brics, after South Africa joined the group.

Jim O’Neill’s comments come as the collective of countries prepare to meet in Johannesburg for their 15th annual summit.

Mr O’Neill introduced the acronym Bric in 2001 while working for investment bank Goldman Sachs. He grouped Brazil, Russia, India and China together as they were all leading developing or newly industrialised nations. The countries embraced the term and began meeting in 2009. A year later, South Africa joined the group.

Speaking to the Financial Times on Tuesday, Mr O’Neill said of Brics: "Quite what they attempt to achieve beyond powerful symbolism, I don’t know."

He also dismissed the idea - floated by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - that the collective might develop its own currency.

Two years ago, Mr O’Neill said he occasionally joked that he should have called the group "Ic", as Brazil and Russia’s economic performance between in the decade to 2020 was "very disappointing". However he commended India and China for their economic growth.

Allegations of Russian war crimes in Ukraine have clouded this year’s Brics summit, which will take place from August 22 to 24.

South Africa had controversially invited President Vladimir Putin to attend - even though he's subject to an international arrest warrant if he leaves Russia - but it's since been announced that his foreign minister will attend instead.

Prime Ndikumagenge
BBC News

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For the first time ever, one of Burundi’s top division football clubs has picked a woman as their new chief coach.

Belyse Ininahazwe, 35, says she plans to lead Inter Star to great successes "like Pep Guardiola" but "celebrate them with humility like Zinedine Zidane".

She told the BBC’s Great Lakes Service she was delighted to be offered the job, saying "initially I thought they were joking, but now it’s real - I am their coach".

Her previous job had been coaching a third division men’s team, following a career spanning two decades both as a player and a coach.

She admits "it's going to be a bit tough now that I'll be coaching a first division team", but at least working in a male-dominated environment is nothing new for her.

The mother-of-one grew up playing football out in the street as a child, growing up part of a family with "far more boys than girls".

She first joined a women’s club - La Colombe - in 2002 where she won at least six national trophies.

Gloria Aradi
BBC News, Nairobi

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Kenya’s data regulator has asked the high court to protect data collected in the East African nation by Worldcoin.

It wants the court to issue an order directing the cryptocurrency project to preserve data collected from Kenyans between 19 April and 8 August.

The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner aims to stop the information being tampered with before an investigation into Worldcoin’s activities in Kenya have been completed.

Earlier this month, the government ordered Worldcoin, recently launched by US AI entrepreneur Sam Altman, to stop signing up new users pending a probe.

The project has sparked global controversy over its questionable data collection practices, which include giving people digital coins in exchange for a scan of their eyeballs.

It has reportedly collected sensitive personal data from more than 350,000 Kenyans, using facial and iris recognition.

Worldcoin seeks to become the world's largest human identity and financial network using cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence, according to its website.

It is accused of promoting attitudes contrary to the cultural beliefs of the mainly Muslim nation.

Kennedy Gondwe
BBC News, Lusaka

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Zambia’s anti-money laundering and drug trafficking body has seized close to $6m (£4.7m) in cash at the main airport in the capital, Lusaka.

Also seized were five pistols, seven magazines, 126 rounds of ammunition, 602 pieces of suspected gold weighing 127kg (279lb) and equipment used for measuring gold.

The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) received a tip-off that a chartered aircraft carrying dangerous goods had landed at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport on Sunday evening, according to the body’s director general Nason Banda.

"The Commission has since seized the Global Express T7-WW on which the above items were found and another aircraft belonging to a local airline whose make is King Air B190.The 10 suspects including a Zambian, have been detained awaiting further investigations," he said in a press statement.

Pioneer Victoria Conteh, the first woman to coach an elite men's football club in Sierra Leone, thanks national team boss John Keister after he funds a life-saving operation.

Gloria Aradi
BBC News, Nairobi

The Ugandan agency in charge of issuing national identity cards on Monday cancelled more than 7,680 fraudulent applications by foreigners posing as Ugandans.

It comes a week after Uganda’s citizenship and immigration control agency, DCIC, announced that it had confiscated 10,000 IDs that had been fraudulently acquired by foreigners.

Simon Mundeyi, the spokesperson for Uganda’s internal affairs ministry, last week said that there had been a rise in foreigners, mainly from Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia and even India and China, deceitfully seeking ID cards for use in obtaining Ugandan passports.

“We have seen a big number of foreigners trying to acquire Ugandan passports. Some of them want to come here to use fraudulent means to acquire our passports, which are much sought after the world over since they went digital,” said Mr Mundeyi in a media briefing last week.

Earlier this month, Ugandan authorities arrested two Nigerians and a Congolese national for illegally attempting to obtain Ugandan passports.

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A Nigerian military helicopter sent to rescue wounded soldiers from a deadly attack in the central Niger state crashed on Monday, after was it was reportedly fired on by bandits.

More than a dozen soldiers area are said to have been killed in an ambush in the area where the army has been fighting armed groups.

Military sources were quoted by the AFP news agency as saying that at least 26 members of the Nigerian security forces were killed and eight wounded in the attack on Sunday.

Local media in Nigeria, however, reported that at least 13 soldiers had been killed in the ambush.

According to the AFP news agency, the rescue helicopter had been carrying 11 of the dead and seven of the wounded before the crash.

Rescue operations and investigations were under way, an air force spokesman has said, without giving information on casualties from the crash.

“The aircraft had departed Zungeru Primary School en route for Kaduna but was later discovered to have crashed near Chukuba Village in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State,” Edward Gabkwet said.

Armed gangs are common across central and north-west Nigeria where they rob and kidnap for ransom, and thousands of people have been killed in attacks in recent years.

Nomsa Maseko
BBC News, Johannesburg

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The man who murdered South Africa’s former first lady Marike de Klerk is set to be released on parole at the end of August.

Luyanda Mboniswa, who was 21 years old when he committed the crime, worked as a security guard at the former first lady’s apartment block.

Mrs de Klerk, who was 64 years old, was stabbed and strangled in her Cape Town home in December 2001.

Mboniswa also stole a mobile phone, gold watch and money then was arrested two days after the crime.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and another life term for robbery with aggravating circumstances in May 2003.

Twenty years on, he has since been "considered for parole placement having served the minimum required time and will be admitted into the system of community corrections, whereby he is expected to comply with specific set of parole conditions for the rest of his natural life,” said prisons department spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo.

Marike de Klerk was South Africa’s first lady between 1989 and 1994. Her husband, Frederik Willem de Klerk was the country’s last president under apartheid rule. Their marriage ended in 1996.