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And we leave you with this shot of Ivory Coast fans celebrating their Africa Cup of Nations win on Sunday night:

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Paul Njie
BBC News, Yaoundé

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has condemned Sunday’s attack in Nkambe town which killed a teenager and wounded at least 40 others.

In a statement on Monday, he described the incident in the conflict-hit North-West region as a heinous act committed by "cowardly criminals".

"I convey my sincere condolences to the family of Cherish Limnuyu, a 15-year-old student of GHS Nwangri," Mr Biya said on X, adding that: "I equally wish a speedy recovery to the injured".

Students were celebrating Youth Day when an improvised explosive device planted by separatist fighters went off near a ceremonial square.

The separatists had ordered a "ghost town" stayaway strike and wanted to block the government-organised youth event from going ahead.

Three suspects have been arrested, according to the regional governor. A church service has been held at the site of the explosion in support of the victims.

On Monday, elderly women in Nkambe marched barefoot with peace plants in hand, denouncing Sunday’s attack. This town has enjoyed relative calm over the years, with education and other activities going on with little disruption from the separatists.

But this attack has further reinforced concerns about the volatile security context in the two Anglophone regions of Cameroon.

BBC World Service

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Nurses and midwives in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, have gone on strike against new rules for verifying their qualifications to foreign nursing boards.

The regulations are meant to curb the exodus of health workers from Nigeria.

Nurses will now be charged verification fees and will have to have practised in Nigeria for at least two years before the authorities will confirm their credentials.

All applications will now take a minimum of six months.

The nurses have said the government should improve their working conditions instead of curtailing their freedom to practise where they want.

The Nigerian authorities said last year that more than 75,000 nurses and midwives had left the country in five years, leading to a huge shortage at home.

The 24-year-old Kenyan athlete had the potential to be one of the greatest runners over 42km.

Kenyan athlete Kelvin Kiptum was on the cusp of greatness when his life was cut short in an accident.

Emery Makumeno
BBC News, Kinshasa

Riot police are cracking down on a small number of protesters who are sporadically grouping outside foreign embassies in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, Kinshasa.

The demonstrators accuse Western diplomats of being accomplices to Rwanda, which they accuse of backing the M23 rebel group that is destabilising the east of DR Congo.

Rwanda has consistently denied the allegation.

Dozens of police officers are standing guard outside the UK, US and French embassies.

International schools and shops run by foreign nationals have remained closed this morning in the Gombe district of Kinshasa for fear of being targeted by protesters.

A handful of protesters are roaming the area and burning car tyres, and the American and Belgian flags.

At a meeting with affected parties on Sunday, DR Congo's Foreign Minister Christophe Lutundula promised to keep UN peacekeepers, Western diplomats and Western embassies safe.

Close to seven million people have been internally displaced by violence in the North Kivu province where M23 rebels are active.

In the last fortnight alone, more than 100,000 people have had to flee their homes because of renewed fighting between Congolese government forces and the M23.

More on the Democratic Republic of Congo:

• Panic in Goma as M23 rebels advance
• DR Congo use Afcon spotlight to call for peace
• A quick guide to DR Congo

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The West African regional bloc, Ecowas, has sent a diplomatic mission to Senegal to discuss the postponement of its presidential elections.

The delegation will meet local officials and politicians.

Senegal's President Macky Sall decided to push back the polls earlier this month. The opposition described the move as a constitutional coup.

It led to protests in which at least three people were reportedly killed.

Nigeria's president, Bola Tinubu - who is the current Ecowas chair - was also due to visit Dakar, but his trip has reportedly been delayed.

More on Senegal:

• 'We feel betrayed by President Macky Sall'
• Why West Africa's united front is in tatters
• Senegal on the brink after elections postponed
• Senegal's Ousmane Sonko - youth hero or rabble-rouser?

Ian Wafula
Africa security correspondent, BBC News, Nairobi

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The internet has been restored in parts of Sudan after a week-long blackout, but many areas remain largely offline.

Last week the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) - who are at war with the army - denied cutting services across the country.

A watchdog that monitors internet freedom, Netblocks, says one network is now back online.

According to Sudanese journalist Tayseer Elbdawi, only four of Sudan's 18 states are back online.

The blackout has left people in Sudan unable to access essential services, like transferring money.

There have been fears that the lack of communications could allow both sides in the conflict to commit atrocities. The RSF and the military routinely deny such accusations.

BBC Sport recaps the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations after Ivory Coast beat Nigeria in the final to clinch the trophy on home soil.

Kennedy Gondwe
BBC News, Lusaka

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Mervis Kateka is happy to be back at secondary school and feels confident her teachers will bring her and her classmates up-to-speed.

"It’s not the first time we have experienced such a long break from school. It also happened during Covid-19. So my parents ensured that I did school work at home by accessing material from the internet and using textbooks," the 16-year-old tells the BBC in the capital, Lusaka.

Schools have reopened across Zambia after a three-week closure to halt the spread of a cholera outbreak that has killed 600 people and infected 17,000 since October. Cases seem to be slowing now.

Health and safety rules are to be enforced by schools - including regular hand-washing.

"Furniture used by students is sanitised before, during, and after classes…The school has an isolation room where children manifesting cholera symptoms will be taken care of whilst waiting for parents to pick them up," reads a note issued by Nkhwazi primary school's headmaster Stanley Simwaba.

Parents in Lusaka were clearly relieved to have their children back in school - some even dropped them off long before classrooms opened.

"I am confident that the government has in place measures to ensure the safety of the students and the teaching community," says Lusaka parent Mutinta Nketani.

"As parents, we are grateful that the ministry of health is working tirelessly to stop the spread, and the drastic reduction in cases and confidence to reopen schools is a testimony to this."

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Mike Thomson
BBC World Service News

Tunisia’s National Guard says at least 17 Tunisian migrants who were in a boat heading for Italy are missing.

Those aboard, who include a five-year-old child, set sail in a fishing vessel from Bizerte in northern Tunisia last week.

Coastguards and naval forces backed-up by helicopters are searching for them.

Tunisia has taken over from Libya as the main departure point for migrants trying to reach Europe from Africa.

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The Palestinian national football team played against South Africa's Western Cape 11 on Sunday, in a friendly meant to signify South Africa's solidarity with Palestinians.

President Cyril Ramaphosa led spectators in chants of "Free Free Palestine!" and reiterated South Africa's continued support for Palestinians in the ongoing war with Israel.

Other top officials attended including Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor.

"The people of Palestine and the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, led by Abu Ammar, Comrade Yasser Arafat, were amongst the greatest friends and supporters of our struggle for freedom. They stood by us during our darkest days, giving us hope and courage," President Ramaphosa said, drawing reference to his country's struggle against apartheid.

"Today, we the people of a free South Africa, take your hands in ours. We stand with you and by you," he added.

President Ramaphosa also thanked spectators "for being here supporting the people of Palestine".

The match was scheduled to coincide with the anniversary of the 1990 prison release of South Africa's liberation hero and former President Nelson Mandela.

A statement by South Africa's presidency also said that the match "aims to provide Palestinian players with the opportunity to enjoy their favourite sport in conditions of peace and sound infrastructure".

Ian Wafula
Africa security correspondent, BBC News, Nairobi

The soldier who attacked a military base in Mogadishu and killed five foreign troops was a former member of the militant group al-Shabab.

Multiple sources report that the attacker had defected from al-Shabab before being recruited as a soldier by the Somali national army.

It has exposed the lack of strict background checks in the recruitment process of army soldiers.

Clan-based bias, corruption and inefficiency are all factors, according to the Somali news outlet Garowe Online.

Of the five soldiers killed at General Gordon military base, four were from the UAE and one was Bahraini.

The gunman is said to have opened fire on them when they were praying.

Kalkidan Yibeltal
BBC News

"We, residents, have been working on shifts, day and night, for the past few days to remove the rocks but it is very hard, says Tesfaye Agazh in Ethiopia's Delanta district.

He is among hundreds of of locals trying desperately to free more than 20 miners who became trapped in a cave three days ago while looking for opals.

"Days on, there is still a lot to dig and it doesn’t seem like we are getting any closer," Mr Tesfaye tells the BBC.

"We are hoping we will get survivors but we know it is a mere chance.

"We are not stopping until we find them whether alive or dead."

Kalkidan Yibeltal
BBC News, Addis Ababa

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Rescue efforts are under way in a remote village in northern Ethiopia where more than 20 artisanal miners are trapped inside a cave.

It’s been three days since a narrow cave collapsed on the miners in the Delanta district.

Local officials are uncertain about the exact number of the trapped miners, who were looking for precious opal gemstones.

Local authorities have told the BBC that the area's steep landscape has complicated their rescue efforts.

Hundreds of locals are trying to dig openings for the miners, as the village’s landscape has made it difficult to get support from machines.

Rescue attempts have so far been unsuccessful, but the authorities remain hopeful of finding survivors.

The officials said that in a previous incident, a miner was found alive after he was buried inside the cave for seven days.

Linet Bahati
BBC Monitoring

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A school in the Congolese capital of Brazzaville has been closed by the authorities after students lowered the national flag and hoisted a different one.

Local media described it as an unidentified black flag.

The government condemned the act by students at Technical High School as a violation of the symbol of the republic and a "serious act of unpatriotism".

The government will take the necessary measures "in response to the crime", Education Minister Ghislain Thierry Magessa Ebomé was quoted as saying.

On Monday it was announced the school will be shut until further notice, and its registration for state exams has been suspended.

Thirteen students have been arrested over the incident and handed over to investigating authorities.

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Senegal's minister of business and trade, who is also the government spokesman, has defended the President Macky Sall from accusations that he postponed the elections as a strategy to cling onto power.

Speaking to the BBC Newsday programme from the capital Dakar, Abdou Karim Fofana presented the election delay as a necessary and altruistic move, coming from a "moral obligation to stay and solve this problem" because according to the constitution, "he [President Sall] is the guarantor of the good functioning of the institutions".

"He could have said: 'Listen, I've got two months left, I'll give you the keys and let you sort out your problem'. But he's taking on the responsibility of clearing up the trouble between the constitutional court and the parliament, and that's what happens in all great democracies," Mr Fofana told BBC Newsday.

When President Sall controversially called off this month's election at short notice, he had cited a row over the eligibility of candidates.

That decision has been met with widespread international condemnation, including from the West African regional bloc Ecowas, amid fears that it could threaten one of the region's most stable democracies. It has also sparked furious protests in which three people have died.

"When you are a leader you often have to take unpopular and sometimes misunderstood decisions. As for President Macky Sall, it is not a pleasure for him to do so... he's not going to get his hands dirty just to stay on for another six or eight months," Mr Fofana said on Monday.

Mr Fofana also defended Senegal's democratic system, arguing that it is the parliament that runs the country, not the civil society.

Mr Sall previously said that he was ready to step down, but wanted to leave the country stable and peaceful.

Read more on the delay of Senegal's elections:

• 'We feel betrayed by President Macky Sall'
• Senegal on the brink after elections postponed
• Ecowas in crisis: Why West Africa's united front is in tatters