VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis' trip to Egypt this month is expected to go ahead despite twin attacks on Christian churches that killed 44 people, Vatican officials said on Monday.

KAMPALA (Reuters) - The Ugandan government charged a prominent academic with a "cyber harassment" offence on Monday after she repeatedly posted criticism of President Yoweri Museveni and his wife on Facebook, according to court documents.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's military on Monday released 593 people after clearing them of having ties with the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, a spokesman said.

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Opposition calls for mass protests against Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila fell flat on Monday when only a handful of people showed up, undermining efforts to oust him after his refusal to quit on expiry of his mandate last year.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed in the South Sudanese town of Wau on Monday, as ethnic militias went house to house searching for people from other groups, witnesses said.

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Families of victims of Sunday's bombing at Alexandria's Coptic cathedral gathered at the Monastery of Saint Mina under heavy security on Monday as Egypt's cabinet approved a three-month state of emergency ahead of a scheduled trip by Pope Francis.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber wearing army uniform killed at least nine soldiers at a camp in Somalia's capital on Monday, authorities said, and a government official was killed by a bomb planted in his car.

ABIDJAN, April 10 (Reuters) - Heavy rains in Ivory Coast's western cocoa growing regions and persistent dry conditions in the east have raised concerns about bean quality for the April-to-September mid-crop, farmers said on Monday.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma said on Monday that marches last week across the country that drew tens of thousands of protesters demanding his resignation demonstrated that racism was real.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Two female suicide bombers detonated explosives on the edge of a university campus in northeast Nigeria on Monday, blowing themselves up but causing no other casualties, disasters agency NEMA said.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's cabinet has approved a countrywide state of emergency for three months, it said in a statement on Monday, a day after two church bombings killed at least 44 people.

DOLLOW, Somalia (Reuters) - As the village wells dried up and her livestock died in the scorched scrubland of southern Somalia, Abdir Hussein had one last chance to save her family from starvation: the beauty of her 14-year-old daughter, Zeinab.

TANTA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian Christians wept with rage on Monday as they recovered the bodies of loved ones killed in twin church bombings, furious at a state they believe will no longer protect them from neighbours bent on their murder.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Heavy gunfire was heard and there were reports of ethnic militias aligned with the South Sudanese government going house-to-house searching for members of the opposition, forcing residents of Wau town indoors on Monday, witnesses said.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a military training camp on the outskirts of Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Monday, police said.

LAIKIPIA, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Catherine Loiyan looked in dismay at her patch of land in Kenya's northern Laikipia County. A month ago it was bursting with tomatoes, maize, cabbage and potatoes.

TANTA,Egypt/CAIRO (Reuters) - At least 44 people were killed in bomb attacks on the symbolic cathedral seat of the Coptic Pope and another church on Palm Sunday, prompting anger and fear among Christians and troop deployments across Egypt.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Burundian opposition leader and former rebel chief Agathon Rwasa has said he fears for his life and has asked the government to speed up talks to end a crisis that began in 2015, when President Pierre Nkurunziza said he wanted a third term.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian authorities have seized about $3.1 million worth of rhinoceros horns flown in from Mozambique via Qatar, the latest seizure in Asia of products from endangered species to feed demand for traditional remedies, officials said on Monday.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A government official was killed by a bomb planted in his car in Somalia's capital on Monday, officials said.