The Nigerian man was
taken to the police after the attack and had injuries to his head, face, limbs
and back, it says.
The police told NDTV
that after he was treated in a hospital, he appeared before a judge, who sent
him to jail.
As a result of the footage, police say action will be taken against the attackers, the broadcaster says.
Public hearings into SA psychiatric deaths
BBC News, Johannesburg
Public hearings into the deaths of more than 100 psychiatric patients have
begun in South Africa.
Known as the “Life Esidimeni tragedy”, the deaths occurred between
March and December 2016 following a "reckless" attempt by the
government to save money, an official report by the health ombudsman found.
Most of the patients died of starvation, dehydration and diarrhoea,
according to the report.
They had been transferred from private specialised care centres to various non-governmental organisations in the Gauteng province,
many of which were unregistered and did not have equipment or staff to care for
It took months for the families to be notified of the deaths - many
said they were not even notified about the planned move.
The three-week-long hearings, led by Dikgang Moseneke - a retired deputy chief justice - could lead to
prosecutions and also assist families in civil claims against the state.
Egyptian president awards bonuses to footballers
Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has given a bonus of $85,000 (£65,000) to each of the players who clinched a place at the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia.
The director of parks and wildlife, Colgar Sikopo, told New Era that anthrax normally occurs while the level of the river is low.
He added that vets were trying to determine the cause of death.
'At least 10' killed in Nigeria shooting
Gunmen attacked a market in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt
early this morning, reports AFP news agency.
Most of the victims were market women, said trader Agnes Tarila.
Local resident Arutere Utuama said: "As soon as I heard
of the incident I ran to the market where I counted at least 10 bodies."
Police spokesman Nnamdi Omoni told AFP that the motive for the
killings was not clear yet.
Eight drown after collision with Tunisian navy
BBC North Africa correspondent, Tunis
At least eight migrants
have drowned in the Mediterranean following a collision between the boat they
were on and a Tunisian navy vessel.
The accident took place in a stretch of water between Tunisia and Malta on Sunday night.
The boat was trying to reach Italy when it collided with a Tunisian navy vessel that approached it around 34 miles (54km) from Al Ataya beach in the island of Kerkenah.
The boat is believed to have been
carrying around 70 people. Although dozens have been rescued, many are
still unaccounted for.
Tunisia’s ministry of defense
says it’s investigating the circumstances of the incident and that they are
still searching for victims. All the people who have been rescued are Tunisian.
Some observers believe that there has been an increase in migrants leaving from Tunisia because of tighter controls off the Libyan coast, North Africa’s most popular transit route for the Mediterranean crossing.
Last week, the Tunisian navy rescued 140 people. Most were Tunisian migrants from boats that set off from the country’s south-eastern coast.
Official figures also show that more than 500 Tunisians and people from sub-Saharan Africa were arrested during attempted crossings in September.
Cement billionaire clashes with Tanzania's 'Bulldozer'
Africa's richest man Aliko Dangote has criticised Tanzanian President John Magufuli for scaring away foreign investors, reports the Financial Times.
Mr Dangote highlighted a plan to allow the government to take 16% of an investor’s assets for free, says the FT.
The newspaper goes on to explain that the Nigerian businessman Mr Dangote is one of the biggest investors in Tanzania and has built a $650m (£494m) cement plant in Tanzania.
The mining laws have already changed this year and the president has accused international miners of under-reporting how much they were exporting from the country.
Acacia Mining and Petra diamonds are among the companies that have reduced their operations since the changes.
Liberia's president calls for peaceful polls
BBC Africa, Monrovia
Liberia's outgoing President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has just addressed the nation calling for peaceful elections tomorrow.
The 78-year-old reminded voters that they were empowered:
Your vote is about you and your family - not party, ethnicity."
Twenty candidates are standing to replace Mrs Sirleaf, Africa's first female president, in
a first round on Tuesday.
Four judges begin secret Boko Haram trials
BBC Africa, Abuja
Nigeria has now started the trials of thousands of suspects accused of being involved with the militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
Sources at the ministry of justice have told me that four judges have started their trials at the military detention facility in Kainji town, north-central
Niger state, where more than 1,600 suspects are being kept.
It is not clear how many have been arraigned on the first day of the trials.
Up to 1,670 people will be tried in the coming weeks with a further 5,000 people after that.
Many of the suspects have been detained for years.
This is the biggest series of terrorism-related trials in Nigerian history.
The trials are to be conducted in secret at detention facilities across the country - although they are not military tribunals.
Human rights activists and some families of the suspects have expressed fears that this will undermine transparency.
The trials are likely to last for months, or even years, because of the huge number of suspects who will be tried individually, according to Justice Minister Abubakar Malami.
Plus the judicial system here is chronically slow.
More than 20,000 people have been killed and millions of others displaced by Boko Haram's eight-year insurgency in several countries in the Lake Chad region.
Many people, including women and children, have also been abducted by the militants.
UK MP defends meeting with Mugabe
Sir Nicholas Soames has defended holding a personal meeting with President Robert Mugabe while on a visit to Zimbabwe.
The veteran Conservative British MP said he met the president last week to reminisce about his father's role as the last governor of Southern Rhodesia.
Sir Nicholas said they met for old times' sake, adding: "It was purely for Auld Lang Syne and I'm glad I did it."
But Labour MP Kate Hoey called the visit a "body blow" to people who had suffered under the Mugabe regime.
The 93-year-old president has been quoted in Zimbabwean press reports saying Sir Nicholas' visit showed the British wanted dialogue with his country.
At least 37 people were
killed in a police crackdown in protests immediately after Kenya’s 8 August election,
the country’s human rights watchdog has said.
In three days of
violence, 35 people died as a result of “excessive use of force by
police", the Kenya National
Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has said in a report about the vote.
The dedication to its findings,
entitled Mirage at Dusk, reads in part:
The report is dedicated to the six-month-old baby Samantha Pendo, the seven-year-old Fred Omondi and eight-year-old Stephanie Moraa whose lives were tragically cut short in an electoral protest where they were not even qualified to participate either as voters or candidates.
The life of every Kenyan is sacrosanct. The sanctity of life is protected under Article 26 of our Constitution. No Kenyan should ever lose their life in an election-related conflict."
Last month, the Supreme Court annulled the presidential vote because of irregularities.
The rerun is scheduled for 26 October, although the opposition coalition has threatened to boycott the poll unless the electoral commission makes some staff changes.
Police fired teargas and
shots in the air today as hundreds of opposition demonstrators marched
through the capital, Nairobi, demanding reforms. A photographer for the Reuters news agency was at the protest:
According the AFP news agency, opposition leader Raila Odinga reiterated at a press conference that he would not take part in a
re-run if his demands are not met:
We have said and we continue to say that we will not participate in the elections if the environment is not conducive for a free and fair election."
of Africa's largest diamond mining companies, Petra Diamonds, is in financial
firm, which has operations in South Africa and Tanzania, says it is likely to
breach the terms of its loans by the end of the year.
is a double whammy for Petra – it has been hit by labour disputes at its mines
in South Africa and tighter regulations in Tanzania.
of Petra's operations are in South Africa and include the famous Cullinan Mine.
industrial action has disrupted production, even though a three-year wage deal
was signed last week.
early last month, officials in Tanzania seized a parcel of diamonds from the
Williamson Mine, claiming it was undervalued.
Tanzanian government has made several such claims recently, especially against
the country's gold mines.
possible breach of Petra's lending covenants did not come as surprise to
analysts, but the company’s shares in London fell around 5% on Monday morning.
will provide an update on its position when it posts its annual results next
Is this the world's worst road?
People are still reacting to this video posted by the International Committee of the Red Cross on Saturday showing a lorry pulling two other lorries through a river-like road in Democratic Republic of Congo:
South African state prosecutors have provisionally dropped their case against a woman who allegedly
stabbed a man to death and wounded another after she said she found them raping
her 27-year-old daughter last month.
The woman from the Eastern Cape Province had initially been charged with
murder and attempted murder.
A provincial spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority said the woman’s charge sheet showed that she had “attacked the men because she
was trying to save her daughter”.
The NPA has decided not to proceed with the case, saying it could not be
“successfully prosecuted in court”.
Today's hearing was held in the Lady Frere Magistrate Court, where the woman has
received the support of many community members who helped raise money for her bail.
Following the NPA’s decision an
inquest into the death of the alleged rapist will be conducted and could
influence what further action, if any, will be taken against the woman.
Taking dead bodies for a dance in Madagascar
BBC Afrique, Antananarivo
In the highlands of Madagascar, relatives exhuming the bodies of dead relatives and dance with them.
It's an ancient ritual – known as the “turning of the bones” – and a moment for joy and celebration.
I went along to one such ceremony:
Motorway shooting in SA's KwaZulu-Natal
BBC Africa, South Africa
another shooting in South Africa’s troubled province of KwaZulu-Natal.
Three people have been killed after they were attacked on the side of the road in Folweni on the south
coast. Three others are in a critical condition in hospital.
Lt Col Thulani Zwane said the six were travelling on the M35 motorway on Sunday
afternoon when a vehicle intercepted their Ford pick-up:
An unknown number of suspects alighted and opened fire, fatally wounding the mentioned three deceased and seriously wounding three."
KwaZulu-Natal has experienced a spate of shootings and political assassinations in recent weeks.
The police said they did not want to speculate about the motive in the latest attack, but said it might be related to a row over taxi routes.
Meanwhile, there have been four arrests after five people from the same family were shot dead in Mariannhill near Pinetown last week.
Police spokesperson Capt Nqobile Gwala confirmed the arrests and said she did not believe the attacks were linked.
Forces 'raid Biafran separatist's home'
Nigerian security forces have raided the family home of Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu, his younger brother Prince Emmanuel Kanu has said.
The Indigenous People Of Biafra (Ipob) group, founded by Nnamdi Kanu in 2014, was banned by the government last month.
On the day it was declared a terrorist group, army officers also raided the family home in Umuahia
in south-eastern Abia state.
Prince Emmanuel said the soldiers took away items such as television sets, a generator and clothes, the Vanguard and Punch newspapers report.
Nnamdi Kanu spent more than a year-and-a-half in jail without trial on treason charges.
He was released on bail in May but his brother says his whereabouts are now unknown.
Tunisian health minister dies after charity run
The world through its media
Tunisia's Health Minister Slim Chaker has died after suffering a heart attack following a charity run.
Mr Chaker, who was aged 56, had been taking part in the run in the coastal town of Nabeul on Sunday to raise awareness about cancer.
Mr Chaker fell ill after running 500m and then
making a speech at the start of a race, reports AFP news agency.
died in military hospital in the capital, Tunis, AFP adds.
Minister Youssef Chahed wrote on Facebook that he had lost "a brother, a
friend and a colleague", reports BBC Monitoring.
Why cancer drugs slashed for six African nations
A deal which could generate immense health benefits in Africa was signed earlier this year by two major pharmaceutical companies, Cipla and Pfizer, working with the American Cancer Society.
It means that six African countries will save more than 50% of the current cost of cancer medicines.
Those six are Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania.
Dr Megan O'Brien, from the American Cancer Society, is the chief organiser of the deal.
She told BBC Newsday that they chose those six countries because that's where the deal will have the most impact: