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Namibia has said the deal agreed with Germany for €1.1bn ($1.34bn; £940m) in aid following the colonial-era genocide is "not enough", but it would "revisit and renegotiate" as funding is rolled out.

A week ago Germany issued a long-awaited apology for the murder of tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people.

The atrocities committed have been described by historians as "the forgotten genocide" of the early 20th Century, in what was then known as German South West Africa.

Land and livestock were confiscated. Survivors were placed in concentration camps and exploited for labour, sometimes sexually assaulted and in some cases used for medical experimentation.

Germany's apology resulted from the first negotiations of their kind by a former colonial power.

Campaigners say the impact of these atrocities endure to this day, and want the return of ancestral lands that were confiscated.

There are also calls for compensation to made directly to the victims' descendants, for fear the money won't reach those for whom it's intended.

More on this topic:

• 'Why Germany's Namibia genocide apology is not enough'
• What's the right price to pay for genocide?
• Germany returns skulls of Namibian victims

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UN human rights experts have called for the release of 21 lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender-diverse (LGBT+) activists detained last month.

The LGBT+ rights defenders were arrested two weeks ago while attending a conference in south-eastern Ghana and were detained on charges of unlawful assembly.

On Friday, the UN human rights experts in a statement expressed "deep" concern and condemned the arrests and detention which they said were based on discriminatory grounds including sexual orientation.

“All evidence available to us points to the fact that they were detained while they were peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association.

“The Government of Ghana must release them immediately and unconditionally,” they said.

The activists are due to appear in court on Friday.

Update: The decision on whether to grant bail has been delayed until 8 June.

More on this topic:

• 'We deserve to be protected'

• Ghana country profile

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Micro-blogging site Twitter has been suspended indefinitely from operating in Nigeria, the government has announced.

The ban comes just days after a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari was removed for breaching the site's rules.

However the government did not mention the row in its statement. It cited the "persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence".

The national broadcasting regulator, NBC, has also been told to start "the process of licensing all OTT [internet streaming services] and social media operations in Nigeria," the statement adds.

Twitter is popular with journalists, other media figures and civic groups - and was a key source of information during the #EndSARS protests.

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The United Nations is warning of a repeat of Ethiopia's devastating 1984 famine, and is calling for an immediate ceasefire in the northern region of Tigray.

Mark Lowcock, the world body's humanitarian chief, told the BBC that hundreds of thousands of people were already experiencing famine conditions in Tigray after months of conflict.

Mr Lowcock called on the "men with guns" and their political masters to allow full access for aid workers.

And he said more money was urgently needed to support a massive expansion of humanitarian assistance.

But the Ethiopian government has brushed aside talk of a ceasefire.

And those in most urgent need appear to be trapped behind the frontlines - isolated and increasingly desperate, their homes and crops and clinics destroyed.

More on this topic:

• Warnings of genocide and famine
• 'My wife died giving birth to twins while we hid'
• The Nobel laureate who sent his troops to battle
• From Tigray to Yemen, the dilemma of declaring a famine

Flags are flying at half-mast on government buildings in Mauritius after the death of political veteran Sir Anerood Jugnauth.

Sir Jugnauth, who served as prime minister and president, died on Thursday aged 91.

Two days of mourning were declared for Friday and Saturday, and his state funeral is to take place on Saturday.

Many international figures have been paying homage, including the leader of key trading partner India plus the UK's ambassador to Mauritius:

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Bukuru Ntwari, a campaigner against threats to Banyamulenge people living in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has died after falling from a commercial building in Rwanda’s capital Kigali, his family has said.

His death on Wednesday morning was widely reported as suspected suicide by local media.

However family members have told the BBC that they suspect "a pre-planned murder of our lead voice", one close relative to Mr Ntwari said.

Rwanda’s investigation bureau said it has launched a probe into the death.

Mr Ntwari, a lawyer, had been an outspoken advocate against "killings of Banyamulenge" in their home region of DR Congo’s South Kivu province. He called it "genocide".

Several ethnically linked armed groups fighting each other in that region are accused of attacks against groups that live in the mountainous region.

Some are reportedly backed by the govennments of either Burundi or Rwanda, which the countries’ authorities have denied.

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Having grown up in a country at war with itself, Liberia's Kobazzie knows how to fight for the things he believes in.

"We had to run and go to Guinea," he told me when speaking about Liberia’s second civil war, a conflict that ended in 2003.

"We came back, we stayed in the bush. In the night, where everybody is hiding from the rebels - if your child is crying I saw they would take the babies and put them in a drum, in a barrel, put mattresses around it because they don’t want the sound.

"The war we were fighting was senseless."

Having hit the big time with his very first release, Kobazzie is now determined to help his country recover and grow. To do that, he has Liberia's politicians firmly in his sights.

"Don’t let nobody fool you. Don’t sell your vote for money, because if you sell your vote for money, they’re going to leave you."

Kobazzie was so dismayed with the trouble that accompanied last year’s senate elections in Liberia that he got together with some friends to release a song with a very clear sentiment: Say No To Election Violence.

"We’re just encouraging people - vote for the person you love. Vote for the person who has the country at heart."

Kobazzie is aware some of his fans see him as a leader, and he hasn’t ruled out taking on a more formal role in future to serve his fellow countrymen and women.

"I’m not going to say I’m not a politician because I think everybody has a little politics in them," he admits. But he says others must share the burden.

"You have a responsibility - you can help build your country with whichever position you are in. You don’t have to be in politics to make a change.

"We own the government. The government should be afraid of us, not us afraid of them."

The war may be over but, for Kobazzie, the battle goes on.

You can hear more from Kobazzie on This is Africa this Saturday, on BBC World Service radio and partner stations across Africa.

Two Kenyan health workers have been sacked after a woman died while seeking treatment in a county government hospital.

Local media reported that the 58-year-old woman died as she waited to be attended to by Laikipia county medical staff who were attending a colleague's birthday party at the Nanyuki Teaching and Referral Hospital

The deceased's son said his plea to the hospital staff went unheeded, even as his mother's condition deteriorated until she died.

He said his mother who needed blood transfusion had been taken to the hospital's emergency unit on Monday and several lab tests were prescribed.

However, they were told to wait as nurses and laboratory attendants attended the party, he added.

On Friday, the county health authorities said they had conducted investigations and noted that while the patient "had multiple medical complications... there was a significant level of laxity and rudeness from our laboratory staff".

"As such an overhaul and reorganization of the laboratory department has been done and two of our health workers in this department who were found culpable have been interdicted even as we await further investigations," a statement from the county health executive Rose Maitai noted.