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The head of the NGO International Rescue Committee, David Miliband, has been visiting refugee camps in Kenya following the government's threat to close them down.

He refused to speculate as to whether the Kenyan government was serious this time about closing Dadaab, which hosts thousands of people from neighbouring Somalia:

Quote Message: The recent government statements reflect understandable government frustration at the international community’s laid-back attitude to Kenya’s role as a refugee hosting country.

The recent government statements reflect understandable government frustration at the international community’s laid-back attitude to Kenya’s role as a refugee hosting country.

Quote Message: The focus is now on Dadaab, and we share their frustration about the laid-back attitude of the international community. It’s neither in the interests of refugees nor the hosting countries that refugees are left in limbo, unable to go home, or to be resettled, or to find purpose in the local economy."

The focus is now on Dadaab, and we share their frustration about the laid-back attitude of the international community. It’s neither in the interests of refugees nor the hosting countries that refugees are left in limbo, unable to go home, or to be resettled, or to find purpose in the local economy."

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Winnie Byanyima says she is worried about her husband Kizza Besigye, the Ugandan opposition leader who was arrested on streets of Kampala ahead of President Yoweri Museveni’s inauguration.

She is in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, and told the BBC’s Milton Nkosi that she has no idea where he has been taken.

Quote Message: I’m extremely concerned because he was grabbed from the street yesterday quite violently and people were beaten up and he was taken with maximum force and he’s disappeared.

I’m extremely concerned because he was grabbed from the street yesterday quite violently and people were beaten up and he was taken with maximum force and he’s disappeared.

Quote Message: The government is lawless - they will not even tell us where they’ve taken him. The rumour I’ve heard is that he’s been flown by helicopter to a remote part in northern Uganda close to the Sudan border. We don’t know what charge there is."

The government is lawless - they will not even tell us where they’ve taken him. The rumour I’ve heard is that he’s been flown by helicopter to a remote part in northern Uganda close to the Sudan border. We don’t know what charge there is."

A summit in London wouldn’t be a summit without some protesters.

Outside Lancaster House, where the UK has been hosting its anti-corruption gathering, the BBC’s Jean Otalor snapped these demonstrators shouting “end corruption” and “fantastically corrupt”.

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In this photo you can see some of the secessionist protesters from Biafra - earlier we reported that two Nigerian men were arrested near Buckingham Palace (see 15:25 post).

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British-Egyptian poet Sabrina Mahfouz performs London's Wardrobe, a spoken-word poetry piece tracing the African legacy of fashion in the UK capital:

She is one of three African diaspora poets commissioned by BBC's Focus on Africa TV to write poetry on the theme of migration.   

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Arsenal legend Martin Keown has finished a two-day visit of Ethiopia where he challenged the country and the continent to invest more in sports development.

Keown, who was part of the Gunners invincible team of 2003/2004, says he has no doubts that Ethiopia can become a great footballing nation in Africa, if it invests more in creating facilities for the youth to exploit their talents. 

During his visit, he toured grassroots football projects in the north-western city of Gondar and the capital, Addis Ababa. 

Some of the country's young talents also had an opportunity to be coached by the three-time English Premier League winner. 

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He is the second Arsenal legend to visit Ethiopia in just six months following that of his former teammate Ray Palour, who was in the country last December. 

The tours are part of the partnership between the English club and a leading beer brand in Ethiopia to uplift the standards of football in the country. 

Bottom enhancers come in all shapes and sorts, and at any cost, in Ivory Coast, writes AFP journalist Joris Fioriti.

"You need to have good hips to be dubbed a beauty in Ivory Coast," a saleswoman tells him, adding that "men like women with a bit of bottom best".

Women use creams, pop pills or splash out on padded panties in order to have more alluring posteriors, as these photos from Abidjan show:

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French prosecutors are investigating a $2m (£1.4m) payment allegedly made to the Senegalese son of the ex-world athletics chief and whether it was linked to Tokyo's bid for the 2020 Olympic Games.

Allegations of the sum allegedly paid to a firm linked to the son of Lamine Diack had appeared in the UK-based Guardian newspaper.

Both Lamine and his son, Papa Massata Diack, already face a corruption inquiry in France. They have denied any wrongdoing.

The Japanese government has insisted its Tokyo bid in 2013 was clean.

Read the full BBC story here

The world anti-doping agency has confirmed that Kenya has not done enough to end doping in the sport, following a report from its Compliance Review Committee (CRC).

The agency tweets: 

The surprise move will mean some of the world's top athletes are at risk of missing August's Olympic games in Rio.

Kenya, one of the major forces in world athletics, has already missed two Wada deadlines to show it is tackling cheating in sport.

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UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced the creation of a global forum to step up efforts to recover stolen assets. 

Speaking at an anti-corruption summit he hosted in London today, he said the forum would bring together governments and law enforcement agencies from countries that have had assets stolen, together with those from countries where assets are hidden. 

They will initially focus on returning stolen funds to Nigeria, Ukraine, Sri Lanka and Tunisia.

Nigeria's President Muhammadi Buhari has demanded the return of stolen assets stashed in the UK, and complained that the process was too slow. Here he is speaking earlier today:

US special forces have been involved in "defensive fire" against fighters from militant Islamist group al-Shabab in southern Somalia, a US official has told reporters.  

The forces intervened after al-Shabab posed an "imminent threat" to a Ugandan contingent of African Union troops on a mission to disrupt a roadblock manned by the militants, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

What was once a thriving fishing community in Ghana is now best reachable by boat because of rising sea levels, as the BBC's Thomas Naadi discovered on a visit to Fuveme:

Thomas says when he last visited the village, home to about 1,000 people, in October the shoreline was between 30m and 40m away.

For more read his report on Ghana's coastal erosion.

Four Libyan militiamen have been killed and more than 20 others injured after a double suicide bombing targeting a checkpoint 50km (31 miles) away from the western village of Abughrein.

The bombers reportedly used a car and a motorbike and are believed to have been members of the so-called Islamic state group. 

There was a similar deadly attack last week as the militants expanded the territory they hold in that area to another three villages.  

The worry now is that the radical group is edging closer to Misurta, Libya’s third largest city in the west of the country.

The armed forces that are pushing back IS include rival groups from the west, south and east - so there no clear chain of command and none are necessarily controlled by any of Libya’s three rival administrations. 

Want help working out who is in control in Libya? Read: Why Libya is so lawless

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The BBC's reporter in Kampala captured some police moves earlier today at the swearing-in ceremony for Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni:

A tourist snaps a picture of a family group of mountain gorillas in Rwanda's famous Volcanoes National Park in the north of the country:

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The BBC's Jason Boswell took the shot whilst on an assignment for Africa Business Report, being broadcast on BBC World TV tomorrow, looking at Rwanda's drive to diversify its tourism sector.

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A man stopped by security at the entrance to the main government building in Nigeria’s north-eastern city of Maiduguri has blown himself up.

The suicide bomber also killed two policemen who blocked him from gaining entrance to the complex, Nigeria’s army says.

Eighteen other people were injured and have been taken to hospital for treatment.  

Troops have cordoned off the area and evacuated all workers from the building and reinforced security, the army said.

Maiduguri was the headquarters of militant Islamist group Boko Haram when it launched its insurgency in 2009. 

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Amnesty International has called for Uganda to immediately arrest Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, who arrived in the East African nation today to attend the inauguration of his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni.

The UK-based rights group said Uganda had “an absolute obligation to surrender him” to the International Criminal Court.

Muthoni Wanyeki, Amnesty International’s regional director for East Africa, said:

Quote Message: Uganda must face up to its international obligations and arrest Omar al-Bashir who is wanted on charges of genocide.”

Uganda must face up to its international obligations and arrest Omar al-Bashir who is wanted on charges of genocide.”

It is no surprise that Mr Bashir feels safe to travel across Africa without fear of arrest as the African Union has said it doesn’t recognise the arrest warrant.

However, BBC World Service Africa news editor James Copnall says that seeing Mr Bashir at Mr Museveni's swearing-in shows just how quickly things can change in international relations - until recently the two were sworn enemies.

For decades they accused each other of supporting one another's rebel groups - and only four years ago on a visit to South Sudan, the Ugandan president said he understood the South Sudanese people's struggle with "that short man in Khartoum".

But things seem to have thawed over the last year – perhaps over regional concerns about ending the conflict in South Sudan.

Guinea-Bissau has once more been plunged into a political crisis, as this tweet by a former BBC Africa producer tells us:  

Reuters news agency reports that Mr Vaz justified his decision to fire the prime minister and the cabinet by saying that they were "incapable of managing the crisis and creating better political and institutional conditions for the [the government's] full function". 

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The former Portuguese colony has had a spate of coups since independence in 1974, and has been dubbed as a "narco-state" because of the foothold international drug cartels have gained in the country. 

See: The story of Africa's first narco-state in graphic novel style

The BBC's former Nigeria correspondent tweets from London:

There has been a recent resurgence of a secessionist movement that supports the creation of a breakaway state of Biafra in Nigeria. For more read Mannir Dan Ali's Should new calls for Biafra worry Nigerians?