The BBC's Milton Nkosi tweets, external from Johannesburg: "I am outside Jeppe hostel where there is a tense stand off between police and an angry mob." And he posts this picture adding: "This crowd is taunting the police and media. They want to attack foreign owned shops."

In another tweet our reporter says: "The police have created a buffer between the mob and foreign owned shops."

The Police in Mali are not happy about their working conditions as the country tackles terrorism.

The police union is complaining about the lack of equipment for officers on the ground.

The union's Fousseini Diakite said a colleague was killed during an attack on a Bamako restaurant was not wearing a bullet-proof vest.

The UN refugee agency tweets, external its reaction to the violence in South Africa: "UNHCR is concerned about #xenophobicattacks in South Africa, welcomes Government pledge to protect @refugees and asylum-seekers."

Democratic Republic of Congo international Yannick Bolasie has been valued at £20m ($30m) by his manager at English Premier League club Crystal Palace.

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The 25-year-old, who played at this year's Africa Cup of Nations, is reportedly a £10m ($15m) transfer target for rival clubs but Alan Pardew said: "They need to have a look at that, because he is worth double."

BBC Trending reports that the treatment of foreigners in South Africa has long been a discussion point on social media.

They talked to Kenyan blogger Robert Alai who started using the hashtag #XenophobicSA in late March.

Image source, Robert Alai

He says Kenyans in South Africa were contacting him with stories about beatings and mistreatment of foreigners that were not getting into the news.

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The website of Burkina Faso's Le Pays, external newspaper is also leading on the violence in South Africa. Beneath the picture of a mob threatening a man and a woman holding children is the headline: "Chasing away foreigners in South Africa: Does the rainbow nation have a short memory?"

A small group of Zambian protesters went to the South African High Commission in Lusaka to complain about the xenophobia, reports the BBC's Meluse Kapatamoyo.

"I am an African", "you are worse than Boko Haram" and "'is this the rainbow nation?" are some of the messages on the placards.

The UNHCR tweets, external: "Pre-election violence in #Burundi forces 8000 to seek asylum in Rwanda & DRC"

An app has been developed for Kenyans to monitor crime reports and also share their own security concerns.

Image source, Google Play

The BBC's Anne Soy says the app is called "kaarada" which translates from Sheng as "stay alert".

Among the crimes people can report are missing persons, pickpockets, robberies, break-ins and car-jacking.

Tech Cabal reports, external the app was developed as a memorial to the people killed in the Garissa University College attacks.

Most of South Africa's newspapers are leading on the xenophobia story. The New Age has a picture of Thursday's "peace march" in Durban with the paper saying "no to hatred", the Star also talks about Thursday's march but highlights trouble breaking out with the police, and the Sowetan focuses on condemnation of comments by the Zulu king which allegedly sparked the violence.

The BBC's Nomsa Maseko tweets, external from Johannesburg: "#XenophobiaMustFall Youths running past my house with groceries stolen from Somali owned tuckshop up the road! No cops around!"

Image source, Radio Okapi

The website of Radio Okapi, external in the Democratic Republic of Congo is leading on news from South Africa. The headline reads: "the DRC ambassador in South Africa condemns the xenophobic violence in Durban."

Kenya's Business Daily is leading on comments by Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed that the country is ready to receive Kenyans if they want to be repatriated from South Africa.

Brian Hungwe
BBC Africa, Harare

Zimbabweans have been protesting outside the South African embassy in Harare.

They were chanting "why are you killing us?". When the police came in to break up the demonstration, the protesters remained defiant insisting their message had not been heard.

Somalia's national football team hope to compete in the qualifying for the 2019 African Nations Cup.

They have only entered the cup once before - in 1974.

The only African countries not to take part in the next cup in 2017 are Somalia and Eritrea.

Somalia's new national stadium is due to be complete at the end of this year.

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South Africa's Times newspaper leads with a piece on the reaction across Africa to the xenophobic violence and reports on the talk of boycotting South African goods and employees walking out on South African firms.

The Zambian radio station Q FM has announced on its Facebook page, external that it has "indefinitely blacked out the playing of South African music in protest against xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals taking place in that country.

"This is in solidarity with Africans who have fallen victim to xenophobic attacks."

South Africa's police tweet, external that 12 people have been arrested following "public violence" last night in Johannesburg. They go on to say that around 200 foreigners were kept at the police station in the Cleveland suburb for their safety "after sporadic attacks".

Only a third of the electorate voted in Sudan's election this week, according to African Union observers.

The head of the AU team overseeing the poll, Olusegun Obasanjo, said some may have abstained because they felt it was a forgone conclusion.

President Omar al-Bashir is expected to extend his 25 years in power, after opposition parties boycotted the poll.

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Today's African proverb is: By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed. An Ashanti proverb sent by Hussein Bunyamin Djaarah in Sekondi, Ghana.