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Nigeria has lifted the ban it placed on the world's biggest long-haul carrier operating flights into the country.

Emirates was banned from operating in the country after the United Arab Emirates stopped issuing visas to Nigerians.

But the Nigerian Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika tweeted that the UAE has written to say they will now issue Nigerians visas and so Emirates will be allowed to fly into Nigeria.

Last month, Nigeria reopened its international borders, after closing them to reduce the spread of coronavirus.

But it announced a tit-for-tat policy where the borders would remain closed to those who do not allow Nigerians in.

Lawyers in Algeria have been holding a nationwide strike in protest at what they say is increasing political pressure on the country's judicial system.

The two-day national strike is in solidarity with lawyers in the capital Algiers, who started their own stoppage on Sunday.

The lawyers say that there have been arbitrary arrests and an effort by the authorities to push through a new constitution.

The powerful elite in Algeria has been shaken by mass protests demanding reform that started in February last year.

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An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced six people to death for killing two policemen, the AFP news agency quotes a judicial source as saying.

It relates to the murder of two policemen in the northern province of Sharqiya in 2016 where their guns were also stolen.

They were alleged to belong to the moderate Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, which was outlawed after President Mohamed Morsi, who hailed from the organisation, was overthrown in 2013.

Five of those sentenced to death were tried in absentia while one appeared in court in Zagazig, the capital of Sharqiya, reports AFP.

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Protesters in a Guinean opposition stronghold threw stones at the prime minister's convoy on Tuesday, AFP news agency reports the government as saying.

According to the statement, Prime Minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana was travelling in the Fouta-Djalon region of northern Guinea when his convoy was attacked, causing several injuries, AFP adds.

The 82-year-old President Alpha Conde is running for a third presidential term in the 18 October election after he pushed through a new constitution, allowing him to reset the two-term presidential limit to zero.

Opposition to that possibility led to a wave of protests last year during which dozens of people were killed.

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The East African Court of Justice has dismissed a case which challenged the Constitutional Amendment Bill, removing the age limit to contesting the presidency in Uganda.

This means President Yoweri Museveni is allowed to stand for re-election.

Ugandan lawyer Male Mabirizi had petitioned the country’s Supreme Court, which upheld the amendment, after which he took matters to the regional court.

The change in the constitution removed the requirement for anyone wishing to stand for the presidency to be aged between 35 and 75 years.

Mr Mabirizi had also challenged the process by which the law was passed by parliament in 2017, which was marred by punch-ups on the floor of the house, and an invasion by the military special forces.

The regional court in Arusha, Tanzania, has ruled that the process through which the bill was passed did not violate the East African Community treaty.

If the court had ruled in favour of the petitioner, it would have left President Museveni’s candidature for the 2021 elections in the balance.

The Mozambican health ministry has told all companies and institutions in the capital, Maputo, to set up isolation rooms within their premises for holding people suspected to have contracted coronavirus.

Firms have also been told to set up “Covid-19 management institutional commission” to manage suspected and confirmed cases of Covid-19 and to keep in contact with health authorities.

The commissions will include people trained on how to handle the disease.

The country has lately witnessed a steady increase in the number of confirmed cases, particularly in Maputo.

Nearly 137,000 people have been tested for coronavirus so far with almost 8,600 confirmed cases. There have been 59 deaths and 5,205 recoveries.

A Ugandan teachers’ union has disputed a ban on students taking public transport, reports the Ugandan newspaper the Observer.

The guidelines are being brought in an attempt to reduce the spread of coronavirus when students return to school.

Schools have been closed since March and on 15 October will re-open only for final years students in primary, secondary and tertiary education.

The new guidelines also require all schools in urban areas to provide students with special buses on designated routes.

But the Uganda Teachers’ Union secretary general Filbert Baguma is quoted in the Observer as saying that it is not possible to implement the guidelines because administrators cannot control the movement of all students.

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Nigeria has developed a Covid-19 test kit that can give results in less than 40 minutes and does not need extensive training to use.

Health Minister Olurunimbe Mamora said it was much faster and 10 times cheaper than the PCR testing method currently being used.

The kit is yet to be approved by regulatory bodies but has raised hopes of boosting the country’s low testing rate.

Nigeria has been importing key elements needed for coronavirus testing.

The authorities said the test kit, known as SARS-COV-2 Isothermal Molecular Assay, was developed by Nigeria’s Institute of Medical Research.

The head of Nigeria’s Covid-19 response task force, Boss Mustapha, told a media briefing that the kit was Nigeria's contribution to the global fight against the pandemic through scientific research.

The health authorities said the test kits will be distributed soon to communities - after a validation process - to boost testing across the country.

Nigeria has so far tested just over 500,000 people out of its population of around 200 million.

It has recorded more than 58,000 coronavirus cases with more than 1,000 deaths. The number of daily confirmed infections is declining.

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A Congolese activist and four others go on trial in France's capital, Paris, on Wednesday for trying to take an African funeral staff from France's indigenous art museum.

It was part of a protest against colonial-era plundering.

Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza and four others are charged with attempted group theft of a historical object and could face up to 10 years in prison and 150,000 euros ($176,000; £137,221) in fines.

The charges stem from an incident in June when the 41-year-old activist went to the Quai Branly museum and removed a 19th-century funeral staff from Chad and paraded it around the building.

Since then he has staged similar operations at other museums.

Vice magazine has described Mr Diyabanza as "a real-life Killmonger" - a character in the Black Panther film who also protests against a museum in Europe keeping an artefact pillaged from Africa.

But French officials have condemned the stunt and the Quai Branly museum is a civil party in the trial against Mr Diyabanza.

"The issue of restitution... deserves a serious debate," Emmanuel Kasarherou, director of the museum is quoted as saying by AFP news agency.

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A ban on public demonstrations in Ivory Coast ends on Wednesday just as the opposition plans to begin a campaign of civil disobedience against President Alassane Ouattara’s third term bid.

The opposition is demanding changes to the constitutional court, the electoral commission, and the withdrawal of Mr Ouattara’s candidacy.

Mr Ouattara has accused the opposition of scaring the public in order to disrupt the electoral process.

International Crisis Group has urged the Ivorian authorities to allow former President Laurent Gbagbo and exiled ex-Speaker Guillaume Soro to return to the country.

Supporters of Gbagbo and Soro have condemned the government for excluding them from the presidential election and threatened to hold protests.

A weekend rally by the opposition, which has urged a united front against the president, registered a low turnout.

Veteran Ethiopian human rights advocate and political figure, Mesfin Woldemariam, has died at the age of 90 in the capital, Addis Ababa.

He had been known as a critical figure of successive governments.

Mr Mesfin founded the Ethiopian Human Rights Council, a rights watchdog.

He joined the opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) during the disputed election in 2005.

The CUD managed to win all but one seat in Addis Ababa and an unprecedentedly high number of seats in federal and regional parliaments. But the party claimed it had won even more seats than the number acknowledged by the electoral board.

Following the dispute, senior leaders of the party including Mr Mesfin were accused by the government of unconstitutional attempts at power grab and were jailed.

Mr Mesfin left the party later and described his involvement in party politics as a mistake, saying that he was more comfortable in critiquing those in power than seeking to be in power.

A geography professor by training, he wrote more than a dozen books on politics, history and culture. He was also a prolific commentator on newspapers and later on social media.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has described him as “a champion of peaceful struggle” and someone “who stood only for what he believed in".

A Twitter account, EthioTube, shared a photo of Mr Mesfin:

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The East African Court of Justice will on Wednesday rule on a challenge to a decision by Uganda's supreme court to uphold a constitutional amendment that removed the age limit for presidential candidates.

The 2017 amendment eliminated the requirement that candidates vying for the presidency be under 75 years old.

It allowed President Yoweri Museveni, who is over 75 years old, to run for another five-year term in the January 2021 general elections. He has been in power since 1986.

Lawyer Male Mabirizi went to the East African Court, based in neighbouring Tanzania, to challenge the supreme court's verdict. He wants the clause on an age limit for presidential candidates reinstated.

He said in court papers that the constitutional amendment was done "through violence and deployment of military police in and outside parliament", the Daily Monitor newspaper reports.

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Kenya’s labour court has suspended a strike called by workers at Kenyatta National Hospital - East Africa’s largest referral hospital.

Justice Maureen Onyango ordered the more than 5,000 workers back to work pending a hearing.

Unions representing nurses, doctors and the hospital support staff have been directed to appear in court on 6 October.

The workers were protesting against delayed payment of revised salaries and allowances.

The revised salaries were as a result of a resolution from an advisory committee that was passed in 2012.

The strike's suspension comes a day after one person died in the hospital’s car park.

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Guinea has closed its border with Senegal and Guinea-Bissau ahead of the general elections, a government official has been quoted as saying by AFP news agency.

The official said the closure was for security reasons, AFP reports.

Guinea-Bissau's Interior Minister, Botche Cande, said the border had been closed since Sunday but his Guinean counterpart did not confirm this.

Guinea's President Alpha Condé is seeking a controversial third term in the 18 October general elections.

The president is taking advantage of a new constitution to circumvent a two-term presidential limit.