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Focus on Africa - 09/12/2015 1506GMT

Kenya's Internal Security Minister responds on mass graves; Rwanda plans referendum.

Kenya's Minister for Internal Security, Joseph Nkaissery, has described allegations of a mass grave in Mandera in North Eastern province as outlandish. He's denied that security forces have been carrying out extra-judicial killings.

Rwanda has announced that a referendum will be held next week on a constitutional amendment allowing President Paul Kagame to stand for a third term.

Tanzania's new president John Magufuli has been collecting rubbish on the streets of Dar es Salaam. It's part of a public clean-up operation which he ordered as a replacement for lavish independence day celebrations

Plus news and sport from across the continent.

Photo: Tanzanian President John Magufuli joins a clean-up event outside the State House in Dar es Salaam. Credit: Daniel Hayduk/AFP/Getty Images.

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