Summary

  • Kenya's Odinga makes election ultimatum

  • Flamboyant DR Congo politician indicted

  • Seychelles votes to decriminalise gay sex

  • Swazi king's plane "seized" in Canada

  • EgyptAir flight with 66 people on board plunges into sea

  • Freed Chibok girl meets Nigeria's president

Live Reporting

Hugo Williams and Farouk Chothia

  1. EgyptAir plane missing

    An EgyptAir flight with 66 peple on board has gone missing over the Mediterranean, while flying from France to Egypt. 

    The passengers on board  Flight MS804 included 30 Egyptians, 15 French and 10 other nationalities, including one Briton. Three of them were children.

    Naval and air operations are under way to find survivors. 

    A state-owned newspaper is tweeting about it: 

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  2. Today's wise words

    Our African proverb of the day: 

    He who knows much speaks with silence."

    An Amharic proverb sent by Solomon Bizuneh, Gambella, Ethiopia.

    Click here to send us your Africa proverbs. 

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