About 400 people are crossing to Egypt but some UK nationals are still waiting at the border.

Henrietta Rushwaya was caught with 6kg of gold while passing through airport security on her way to Dubai.

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Nineteen kidney patients have died since Ghana’s largest renal centre closed in May due to funding difficulties, the president of the country’s Renal Patients Association has told the BBC.

Kofi Baffour Ahenkorah made the disclosure as Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman Manu was due to meet management at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in the capital, Accra, where the unit is based.

The minister is looking at ways to reopen the unit, which was treating 200 patients when it closed five months ago.

Mr Ahenkorah said it had closed because of a shortage of drugs.

Dialysis is only available at three public health institutions in Ghana, where patients are charged about $190 (£160) per week for three sessions.

Mr Ahenkorah said the patients had died because they were unable to access treatment at private dialysis centres, which charge more.

Ish Mafundikwa
Harare

Zimbabwean MP Takudzwa Ngadziore, 25, has become the latest opposition member to allegedly be abducted.

Mr Ngadziore, a member of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), posted a video on Facebook showing a gun-toting man he said was chasing him.

“I am being followed,” the panting MP said on camera.

He was later allegedly found naked in the bush north of the capital, Harare. The CCC says he was tortured and injected with an unknown substance. He is currently being treated for beatings he received from his captors.

Mr Ngadziore’s experience is similar to that of a former Harare opposition MP, James Chidhakwa, who says he was abducted and tortured by unknown assailants last month.

In early September, a CCC councillor-elect and another party official say they were abducted and released after being tortured.

This follows a long pattern of the abduction of opposition politicians and human rights activists in Zimbabwe.

The CCC describes the incidents as an uptick in the harassment of its members following disputed elections in August. It blames state agents for the violence against its members.

The ruling Zanu-PF party and the government dismiss the abductions, saying they are stage-managed in order to tarnish the government’s image.

Several hours after Mr Ngadziore’s alleged abduction, police spokesperson Paul Nyathi told the BBC the police were yet to receive an official report.

German forces killed almost 300,000 people during the Maji Maji rebellion in the early 1900s.

Nomsa Maseko
BBC News, Johannesburg

South Africans are in for tougher times after Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana warned that taxes are likely to rise next year.

Delivering his medium-term budget speech in parliament, he cited lacklustre economic growth, low revenue collection and soaring interest costs on the national debt as reasons for the likely increase in taxes.

The government will also forge ahead with cost-cutting measures, including reducing the size of its departments, Mr Godogwana added.

He promised to protect critical services like health, policing and education from spending cuts.

But trade unions and civil society groups warned that budget constraints would prevent the recruitment of new teachers, and increase pressure on health services.

The government bowed to pressure from social activists to again extend a monthly social relief grant given to more than eight million people in financial difficulty.

The monthly payment was first introduced in 2020 as a temporary measure to help people during Covid lockdowns.

The border crossing with Egypt is the only point of exit for Palestinians looking to flee Gaza.

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The president of the Zimbabwe Miners Federation, Henrietta Rushwaya, who is a relation of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has been convicted by a court of attempting to smuggle 6kg of gold through the VIP route at the main international airport in the capital, Harare, three years ago.

Ms Rushwaya is not related by blood to Zimbabwe's president but in the traditions of their Shona ethnic group, she is considered his niece.

The court remanded her in custody until 10 November, when she is expected to be sentenced, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports.

Prosecutors said the gold was worth more than $300,000 (£247,000).

Rushwaya had pleaded not guilty.

Two Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives, who were charged with her, were acquitted because of a lack of evidence, the newspaper reports.

Correction: This story has been amended to reflect that Henrietta Rushwaya is not a blood relation of President Mnangagwa, but, in the traditions of Zimbabwe's Shona culture, is considered his niece.

King Charles and Queen Camilla visit a home for young elephants during their state visit to Kenya.

The Queen joined a traditional dance in Nairobi and stopped to feed orphaned elephants.

The Rafah crossing with Gaza has been open and shut frequently over the years. Why is it so contentious for Egypt?

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Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has voiced his shame at crimes committed during German colonial rule in Tanzania.

Mr Steinmeier was speaking during a visit to a museum in the Tanzanian city of Songea.

The site commemorates the Maji Maji uprising at the start of the last century which was bloodily suppressed by the German authorities.

It's estimated that up to 300,000 people were killed.

Most died a result of the systematic destruction of fields and villages by German troops.

The visit took place on the final day of a three-day tour of Tanzania.

Read more: The Tanzanians searching for their grandfathers' skulls in Germany

The couple had faced life in prison on charges of torture but agreed to a plea bargain.

Thomas Naadi
BBC News, Accra

A Ghanaian deacon, who was abducted during a church service in South Africa's main city Johannesburg on Sunday, has been freed, Ghana's high commissioner to South Africa has said.

The deacon - named by Ghanaian media as Elder Emmanuel Cudjoe - was kidnapped when an armed gang stormed the Church of Pentecost, robbing the congregation of their valuables at gunpoint.

High Commissioner Charles Owiredu said on X, external, formerly Twitter, that the deacon - whom he did not name - was freed on Tuesday night, and was now with his family.

He did not give details of how the cleric was freed.

This was the latest in a spate of robberies at churches, mosques and temples in South Africa.

The government has promised to take steps to ensure the safety of worshippers in a country that has one of the highest crime rates in the world.

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Uganda's cabinet has approved a bill allowing the state-owned oil company Uganda National Oil Company (Unoc) to source and supply oil to the domestic market.

If approved by parliament, the bill will end the current arrangement of importing oil through Kenyan distributors.

Energy minister Ruth Nankabirwa on Tuesday said that the change aims to "improve the security of supply of petroleum products to the country".

She criticised the existing arrangement with Kenya, saying that "it exposed Uganda to occasional supply vulnerabilities where Ugandan oil marketing companies were considered secondary whenever there were supply disruptions", subsequently raising oil prices in Uganda.

Currently, Uganda, a landlocked country, imports more than 90% of its fuel through Kenya's Mombasa port and the remainder through Tanzania's Dar es Salaam port, according to Ms Nankabirwa.

The energy minister also announced that Uganda has reached a deal with Bahrain energy company Vitol Bahrain EC, under which the Bahrain company will finance the Uganda National Oil Company's move to source and supply oil.

She also said that Uganda will shore up its fuel stocks in Tanzania and domestically, including by constructing a storage facility in Mpigi in central Uganda.

A 60-year-old retired teacher in South Africa has been swindled out of 800,000 rand ($43,000; £35,000) of her pension money in a dating scam, police have said.

The woman had been duped by a man she was dating into believing that a fortune of 3.8m rand awaited her following the intervention of "ancestors".

The man "kept on asking for money in order to redeem her fortune". She paid more than 800,000 rand but he then vanished, police said.

The incident occurred in Polokwane, the main city in South Africa's northern Limpopo province.

A "rapid increase" in dating scams had been reported in the province, with well-off single or widowed women targeted, police said.

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Ugandan troops have killed at least 11 militants, including the attackers who murdered two tourists and their tour guide at the Queen Elizabeth National Park last month, an army spokesman has said.

British citizen David Barlow and his South African wife Emmaretia Geyer were shot dead on their honeymoon in the 17 October attack by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).

Ugandan tour guide Eric Alyai - who is survived by his wife and one-year-old child - was also killed in the attack.

The Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) immediately launched a massive operation to track down the militants.

UPDF spokesperson Lt Col Deo Akiiki said the attackers were gunned down on Tuesday night on Lake Edward, near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.

"It should be noted that this was a part of the group that killed the tourists. The operation is still on to finish all the splinter groups of ADF,” he said.

ADF is an Islamic State-linked rebel group with a presence in western Uganda, but which mostly operates in the eastern part of DR Congo.

In June, ADF fighters raided a Ugandan school in a surprise attack, killing 41 children.

Former Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan must pay compensation to his ex-wife after a court ruled on their divorce case.

Thomas Naadi
BBC News, Accra

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A High Court in Ghana has ordered former Ghanaian football star Asamoah Gyan to give his ex-wife Gifty Gyan a house in the UK, a four-bedroom house in the capital, Accra, a petrol station and two cars as compensation following their divorce.

The court on Tuesday also ruled that the ex-Black Stars captain was the biological father of their three children and ordered him to pay 25,000 Ghanaian cedis ($2,100; £1,730) per month for their upkeep.

The legal battle has dragged on for about three years after the former footballer accused Gifty Gyan of infidelity, and that he may not be the biological father of their three children.

A DNA test disproved his claims.

Although the couple had already split up, the court formally annulled their marriage following a petition filled by Asamoah Gyan.

The court ruled that Ms Gyan had made a non-cash contribution to the purchase of the properties because she was the only one caring for their children while her partner had focused on football.

Before formally tying the knot in 2013, the couple had two children.

Gyan declined to comment when the BBC contacted him via his management team.

He is his country's all-time record goalscorer, and Africa's top scorer at the World Cup finals.

The 37-year-old scored 51 goals for Ghana, six of those at a World Cup, where he played in 2006, 2010 and 2014.