Africa highlights: Tuesday 30 June 2015

More pictures have come through of the operation to recapture a lion which escaped from a national park in South Africa three weeks ago (see earlier post at 12:38).

The lion was tracked down 300km (180 miles) away from the Karoo National Park and sedated with a dart.

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The lion then had to be hoisted into a sling underneath a helicopter by a team of wildlife experts, and flown back to the national park.

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The lion is now back at its enclosure in the park.

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Is the Kantanka the first vehicle to be completely designed and manufactured in Ghana?

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We reported this on Monday and have since been contacted by a BBC user who claims that a different car, the Boafo was made in Ghana 20 years ago, and says that at least one of the trucks is still driving around the country.

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This was designed by Ghanaian engineer Dr RP Baffour. We are trying to establish if this vehicle was mass produced and entirely manufactured in Ghana, like the Kantanka, or just assembled in the country.

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Kenya's most famous actress, the Hollywood star Lupita Nyong'o is back home for the first time since winning an Oscar. She's been talking to the BBC's Anne Soy (below left) about her passion for elephant conservation and how it felt to be back in Kenya:

To see the TV interview, tune in to Focus on Africa TV on BBC World News at 17:30 GMT. 

South Sudan President Salva Kiir's spokesman Ateng Wek Ateng has told the BBC that he did not believe that troops would commit atrocities against their own people, in response to a damning UN report.

The report alleges that South Sudan's army and allied militias "abducted, torched and gang-raped girls" during fighting against rebel forces.

In an interview with the BBC's Focus on Africa radio, Mr Ateng said:

"If we find an individual committing a crime of that magnitude, we will bring them to account... The whole South Sudan army has been accused in this matter, and that is not true."

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The re-emergence of Ebola in Liberia shows that the world needs to "stay vigilant" when it comes to the virus, the World Health Organization says.

But WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told Focus on Africa radio that Liberia is in a much better place to deal with Ebola now than it was a year ago.

"The country [now] has the capacity to detect, to test, to do safe burials and to do surveillance... the package in place has proved effective," he said.

The village where the 17-year-old boy died of Ebola is now in quarantine.

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The Ivory Coast Football Federation (FIF) has named a five-man shortlist for the vacancy in charge of the African champions.

Patrice Neveu, Paolo Duarte, Michel Dussuyer and Henryk Kasperczak have all worked in Africa in the past.

Frederic Antonetti is the only one who has neither coached a national team nor worked in Africa.

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Burundi's electoral commission spokesman has told me early estimates show the ruling CNDD-FDD party is ahead in the parliamentary elections.

Prospere Ntahorwamiye said that results point to a CNDD-FDD victory as it was already far ahead in the vote count.

The opposition boycotted the poll, and the African Union and the UN called for the vote to be postponed.

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Mr Ntahorwamiye said that the voter turnout outside the capital, Bujumbura, was very high with as many as 98% of voters taking part in certain areas.

He said the turnout was lower in Bujumbura because of the unrest that has accompanied the third-term bid by President Pierre Nkurunzizia.

The BBC's Orla Guerin sent this report from the Tunisian resort of Sousse, where an attack on Friday left 38 people, mostly tourists, dead. 

It features footage filmed by a staff member at one of the hotels where the shootings took place.

The hashtag #CelebrateJega is trending on twitter in Nigeria as people react to the country's electoral chief stepping down from his post.

Professor Attahiru Jega oversaw this year's general elections, which were widely praised for being free and fair.

And he held firm despite some pressure to review the results of the poll which showed that the sitting president, Goodluck Jonathan, was going to lose.

At least 20 people have been quarantined in Liberia as the authorities try to trace all the people who came into contact with a 17-year-old boy who has died of Ebola. They are also trying to figure out how he became infected.

People in Margibi County, where the boy died, say they are afraid that an Ebola outbreak could begin again. But the government says there is no need to panic.

Liberia has lost its Ebola-free status, seven weeks after it declared there were no more cases in the country.

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There was no fairytale comeback for Tunisia's Malek Jaziri as he lost the fifth and final set 7-5 to Australia's James Duckworth in a closely fought match at Wimbledon.

It means only South Africa's Kevin Anderson is left to fly the flag for the continent in the singles events at the All England Championships.

Cameroon legend Samuel Eto'o has confirmed his exit from Italian Serie A side Sampdoria  in a letter to fans. BBC Sport's Piers Edwards reports that he will now join newly promoted Turkish side Antalyaspor.

"I've been blessed to spend these past few months with you... It was an honour to be part of your army.You will always be in my heart," he said in the letter.

There was a spike in the numbers leaving Burundi in the run-up to Monday's parliamentary elections, the UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, says.

In a statement released today the UNHCR says that nearly 10,000 left the country over the weekend fleeing the political tension sparked by President Pierre Nkurunziza's third-term bid.

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A great fightback from Tunisia's Malek Jaziri at Wimbledon - he has forced a deciding set against Australia's James Duckworth, who won the first two sets. A close match between two players only separated by three places on the world rankings. They have been on court for almost two and a half hours now. The fifth set has just started.

Follow live scores on the BBC Sport website here.

We're still on Lupita watch in Kenya as the Oscar-winning actress returns home.

She is now giving a talk on arts in education:

Fashionistas will have noticed the change in outfit from the earlier interview with the BBC's Anne Soy.

Ghana midfielder Sulley Muntari's contract with Italian club AC Milan has been ended by mutual consent.

The 30-year old joined in 2012 and had one more year left on his contract that he signed in 2014.

He fell out of favour after Filippo Inzaghi replaced Clarence Seedorf as coach, making just 16 Serie A appearances last season and scoring twice.

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Milan paid tribute to the battling midfielder, adding: "AC Milan would like to thank Muntari for the commitment and professional attitude shown during his time playing in the Milan shirt."

The BBC's Rana Jawad has been sending pictures of the tourist areas of Sousse in Tunisia, which are now quiet in the wake of Friday's attack in which 38 people, mainly tourists, died.

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This traditional sweet-seller said that his business has taken a "bad hit" as locals estimate that visitor numbers are 90% down.

And things are quiet on the beach.

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Beach attendant Mohsen is very worried about the impact of the attack. He told our reporter that "there is no future for us in Tunisia if we lose tourists, there is no other field for me to work in".

The UN's mission in South Sudan, Unmiss, has released a report outlining the way civilians are being targeted by the army and allied militias in a new wave of fighting:

• "This recent upsurge... has been marked by a new brutality and intensity, including such horrific acts as the burning alive of people inside their homes."
• "Reports of rape have increased during the current wave of fighting, particularly in Unity and Upper Nile [states]."
• "According to testimonies from Unity, at least 172 women and girls have been abducted, while at least an additional 79 were subjected to sexual violence including gang rape."
• "These figures are certainly an under-representation of the actual magnitude of violations."

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The government has denied that its soldiers would be involved in such attacks.

The BBC's Haruna Shehu has sent this photo of crowds outside a bank in the Nigerian capital Abuja, rushing to make today's deadline for a compulsory new biometric identification system, aimed at reducing fraud in the country's banking sector.

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Registration for the Nigerian Central Bank scheme opened 16 months ago, but many have waited until the very last day to sign up.

Account holders have been asked to enrol for the scheme at their local bank by having their fingerprints taken, along with a photograph of their face.

The bank then issues customers with a unique Bank Verification Number (BVN), which is then used in combination with the biometric information to confirm their identity whenever a transaction is made.

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Click here for a help sheet with answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the BVN.

A lion that had managed to get out of a national park in South Africa three weeks ago has been recaptured, the South African National Parks Service (SANParks) says.

The three-year-old lion had got through a gap in the park's fence which had been damaged in flooding and travelled about 300km.

He was tracked down on Monday and then had to be immobilised using a dart.

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The lion was then put in a sling underneath a helicopter and flown back to the national park.

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SANParks believes that the lion may might have been chased away by older lions.

US President Barack Obama has signed a law that extends the life of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) for another 10 years.

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Agoa, which was first approved in 2000, gives preferential treatment to certain goods from eligible African countries.

A South African news website is tweeting pictures of the last remaining families leaving the camp in Chatsworth, Durban that was set up for foreigners in the wake of April's xenophobic violence.

It is being reported that the camp is being closed today.

The UN children's fund tweets about the death of a young boy on Sunday, ahead of Burundi's controversial parliamentary elections:

The BBC's reporter in Tunisia tweets:

Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o felt liberated when she got rid of her permed hair in favour of a natural look, she told the BBC's Anne Soy in Nairobi.

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Ms Nyong'o is starring in and producing a film version of Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's book Americanah, which deals in part with the politics of hair.

She is back in Kenya to promote her work with the WildAid wildlife charity.

Nigeria's government, in office since the end of May, will investigate the country's oil company, the NNPC, over huge sums of money that were allegedly not paid to the Federal government under the previous government.

The NNPC is alleged to have spent almost half of Nigeria's oil revenue illegally in the last 3 years.

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Seifeddine Rezgui, the gunman who killed 38 people at a Tunisian beach resort on Friday, was in contact with militants in Libya and probably received training there, Reuters news agency reports, quoting an unnamed official.

Islamic State (IS) has said it was behind the attack.

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Tunisia's tourism minister has said she fears the country could lose $500m (£320m) in tourism revenue because of the attack. Click here for a profile of Seifeddine Rezgui

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Tunisia's Malek Jaziri will be taking on Australia's James Duckworth at the Wimbledon tennis championships at 10:30 GMT. Win or lose this morning Jaziri will be staying a little longer in Wimbledon as he is also set to play in the men's doubles later this week.

South Africa's Kevin Anderson began his campaign at the All England Championships with a four-set win over Lucas Pouille of France on the opening day.

South Africa's Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has been "urgently sent to Lesotho" because of the growing political tension there, the South African government says.

This comes after the assassination of a former army commander and the fleeing of three opposition leaders.

The South African Development Community has described an "explosive security situation in Lesotho".

Elections were held in February aimed at resolving political tensions after an attempted coup last year.

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African men are more likely to have children with more than one woman than men from other parts of the world, according to a new study on fatherhood which focuses on more than 40 countries, reports South Africa's Mail and Guardian.

More than 40% of men in Gabon, Liberia, Congo-Brazzaville, Uganda and Ivory Coast have fathered children with more than one woman, which puts the five African countries at the top of the rankings, according to the study by MenCare, a global fatherhood campaign group backed by the UN.

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Lesotho came top of a separate poll looking at the number of fathers who believe that "contraception is a woman's business and a man should not worry about it".

Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, is changing fast but there is still room for livestock to relax on the highway, reports the BBC's Emmanuel Igunza.

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He has spotted these animals on a stretch of the road in the Lebu area of the city.

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And not far, Emmanuel snapped this goatherd driving his flock through the streets to the market.

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The red carpet is out in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, and journalists - among them the BBC's Anne Soy - were eagerly awaiting the arrival of Oscar-winning Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o this morning.

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There was excitement among many journalists at the scene when she did arrive.

Ms Nyong'o has been appointed a global ambassador for the wildlife conservation charity WildAid. And she told journalists that she is "proud" of her Kenyan heritage and "part of that heritage is the wildlife".

She added that she would have loved to have returned home sooner but she has been busy building her career, but "it's never too late to come home," she said.

The recent upsurge in the civil war in South Sudan has seen a "new brutality and intensity" in the treatment of civilians by the army, the UN mission in South Sudan (Unimiss) says.

Survivors who have fled the fighting that has been going on since April in Unity state told Unmiss investigators about cases of "killing, rape, abduction, looting, arson and displacement", including cases of people being burnt alive in their homes.

But Unmiss adds that it has not been allowed access to the sites of the alleged incidents to verify what happened.

An Unmiss statement says that the spokesman for South Sudan's army has denied the allegations.

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A 17-year-old boy has died from Ebola in Liberia, the country's first confirmed case of the virus since it was officially declared Ebola-free seven weeks ago.

Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah said the boy had died in Nedowein, a town close to Liberia's international airport, 45km south of the capital Monrovia.

He told Liberians there was no need to panic.

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There's been an increase in cases of Ebola in the two other West African countries worst affected by the epidemic, Guinea and Sierra Leone, coinciding with the start of the rainy season.

The US says it is "deeply disappointed" that Burundi held parliamentary elections on Monday "despite woefully inadequate conditions for them to be credible".

The US statement echoes comments from the African Union which did not send observers to the poll, which took place amid tension surrounding President Pierre Nkurunziza's controversial third-term bid.

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The statement adds that the president should consider the "welfare of his country" ahead of his wish for a third term.

Today's African proverb: "Do not fight for a guinea fowl that has been caught in someone else's net." An Acholi proverb sent by Martin Okwir, Lira, Uganda.

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