The Times covers Israeli Prime Minister’s five-day visit to Africa.  It focuses on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta. The two leaders pledged closer cooperation. In particular, Israel will apparently help Kenya to build a 440-mile wall along Kenya’s border with Somalia, aimed at protecting against al-Shabab Islamist terrorists. In addition, the report says that Israel and Kenya will improve intelligence cooperation, while Kenya will lobby for Israel’s reinstatement as an observer at the African Union. Israel’s observer status at the regional group was removed in 2002 at the behest of Libya.

Netanyahu has also visited Uganda and Rwanda during his trip and will today visit Ethiopia before returning to Israel.

The Telegraph covers German reports that claim that the publisher of German tabloid Bild arranged for Netanyahu to inadvertently smuggle original blueprints of the Auschwitz death camp out of the country. The Bild publisher believed that the plans should be preserved in Israel, although they were not allowed to leave Germany. He apparently presented the plans as an official gift to Netanyahu during a visit.

The Independent reports that a the 12 thousand year-old grave of a female shaman has been uncovered in northern Israel, revealing evidence of spiritual life in the region at the time.

The Guardian online says that the Syrian army has declared a 72 hour ceasefire to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. US Secretary of State John Kerry commented that he hopes it is “a harbinger” of longer-lasting ceasefire arrangements.

In the Israeli media, the top story in Israel Hayom, which is also covered prominently in Yediot Ahronot, is the announcement that Israeli and American militaries carried out a successful joint test to integrate their missile defence systems. The exercise tested six different systems, including Israel’s David’s Sling, Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 systems, which are designed to combat medium and long-range missiles. Israel’s multi-layered missile defence system continues to be developed jointly with the United States. Commenting in Maariv, Yossi Melman writes: “The test found that despite the troubled diplomatic atmosphere, particularly in the personal relations between Prime Minister Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama, the intimate relationships on the military level have not been hurt, and don’t appear to have been affected.”

Meanwhile, the top story in Yediot Ahronot, which is also a major item in Maariv, is the evidence given yesterday by the outgoing brigade commander in the trial of Elor Azaria, the soldier accused of having unlawfully killed a wounded Palestinian terrorist in Hebron in March. Colonel Yariv Ben-Ezra told the court that given the circumstances on the day and the various internal investigations which followed, he believed that Azaria’s actions were “unjustified”.

Israel Radio news reports that Prime Minister Netanyahu has rejected criticism by the US State Department over the announcement that Israel’s government has approved the construction of around 800 new homes in the West Bank city of Ma’aleh Adumim and in East Jerusalem. Netanyahu said, during his visit to Rwanda, that the real obstacles to peace are Palestinian incitement and an unwillingness to sit down with Israel in direct talks.