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#SomeoneTellKagame trends in Kenya
Africa marks a year since the last polio case was detected
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Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has appointed the first ever woman to the rank of brigadier, the fourth highest rank in the country's armed forces.
Fatimah Ahmed was already the highest ranked woman in Kenya's Defence Forces, having previously held the post of colonel in the Kenyan Navy.
The hashtag #SomeoneTellKagame, external is still trending on Twitter in Kenya after the Rwandan President hit back at criticism of his third-term ambitions from a Kenyan user.
Lots of you have been getting in touch on this story.
Cyubahiro Robert Mckenna on the BBC Africa Facebook page said:
"#SomeoneTellKagame, As a young Rwandan I don't care about term limits as long as he gives me security and peace, free education, almost free health insurance,water and electricity. I want him to stay in 2017."
Many have also been commenting on Twitter:
Nigeria's National Hospital in Abuja has been live tweeting a heart operation on an eight-year-old patient to repair a hole in her heart:
Half an hour later the hospital tweeted:
In the next hour the operation was still going on:
And in its most recent tweet the hospital says:
BBC Great Lakes reporter in Uganda's capital Kampala tweets:
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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has said that the current power shortages has restricted economic growth in the country:
Mr Zuma is giving an update on the state of the nation (SONA) in an address in the capital, Pretoria.
He says plans are being made to improve the energy situation:
"The retrospective traces the wealth of the region’s artistic productions from the 1920s to present day through painting, photography, sculpture, music, film, comics and performance art," reports Okay Africa, external.
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Rwanda's President Kagame took on a Kenyan citizen on Twitter after his third-term ambitions were questioned:
@levikones was not cowed and answered back.
And now #SomeoneTellKagame is trending in Kenya. Some are critical of President Kagame:
But some say Kenyans should not get involved:
Ivory Coast and Manchester City star jokes on Twitter about whether he or David Silva scored the first goal against West Brom, after the ball appeared to take a slight deflection off the Spaniard on the way in:
The UN's children's agency welcomes today's polio news, but warns that there are still two years to go before polio is eradicated from Africa:
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