That's it for today on the BBC Africa Live page. Download the Africa Today podcast and visit BBCAfrica.com for the latest news on the continent. And we leave you with this photo of a mime artist in South Africa's Cape Town city, calling for an end to xenophobic attacks on other Africans:

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South Sudanese Luol Deng has told the BBC he's really happy the NBA's first basketball match in Africa will be happening while he's still playing.

The 30-year-old Miami Heat player for Miami Heat will be captain for Team Africa in the Johannesburg match at the beginning of August. The team will be made up of first and second generation African players and will be up against Team World.

Sophie Ikenye will be bringing you Focus on Africa TV on BBC World News at 17:30 GMT. Tune in for the latest on the migration crisis as 500 more people arrive on European shores. Sophie will be asking what the European Union should do to stop tens of thousands risking their lives.

Readers on the BBC Africa Facebook page , externalhave been reacting to some of the day's stories, including the killing of Ethiopian nationals by Islamic State militants.

Joseph Serikali Mwema comments on the killing of Ethiopians by Islamic State militants in Libya: "Ethiopians are successful in preventing terror attacks on their soil. This particular attack did not happen on their soil. They should share their secret with the Kenyan authorities."

And Jel Jel Akoon expresses a view on the military offensive against militants in Nigeria: "If Sambisa forest is a last remaining hideout of Boko Haram then where are the Chibok girls? Nigerians authorities must give the nation and the world clear information about the schoolgirls."

Sammy Darko
BBC Africa, Accra

Flags in Ghana are flying at half-mast in honour of the designer of the national flag who has died aged 92.

Theodosia Okoh died over the weekend. President John Mahama said the "unique flag that she designed for us has cemented her place in history".

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The flag will fly at half-mast for three days.

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Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, South Sudan

At least two people have been killed in fighting in South Sudan's oil-rich Malakal town.

Aid agencies say several others were injured in the clashes between rival government forces.

The town remains volatile and the government has sent more troops to restore order.

More photos are coming in from the rally held in Addis Ababa to protest against the beheading of Ethiopians by militant Islamists in Libya. Relatives and friends showed their emotion:

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Tens of thousands of people packed Addis Ababa's famous Meskel Square to hear both Muslim and Christian leaders denounce the killings:

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The International Organization for Migration tweets, external about the conflict in Yemen: "So far 8,344 people have fled #Yemen to #Djibouti.Abt 5,100 are Third Country Nationals representing 60% of the total"

Zenaida Machado
BBC Africa

Angolan police have denied claims by a human rights campaigner that 800 members of a religious sect were killed by the army last week.

Police spokesman Paulo Gaspar de Almeida told me that 22 people had been killed, nine of them were policemen and 13 were "snipers" linked to the sect.

Police accuse the leader of the Christian sect, Jose Julino Kalupeteka, of inciting civil disobedience and say they have arrested him.

Earlier Elias Isaac of the rights group, Open Society Initiative in Southern Africa, said 800 people were killed killed during the raid on the sect's camp in central Huambo province.

Follow Quentin Somerville on Twitter, external as he gets near to Islamic State (IS) militants in Libya.

He tweets, external that IS appear to be making their presence known in Libya:

"When the IS mortars in Sirte were close to feel the shockwaves, it was time to move."

Earlier he tweeted, external:

"IS fighter: those regimes need to change to Shari'ah Law & then they'll move on to the West; into Spain, Italy, so on".

A human rights campaigner in Angola says almost 800 members of a religious sect were killed by the army last week.

Followers of the Seventh Day Light of the World cult were slaughtered in Caala town in central Angola, Elias Isaac of the Open Society Initiative in Southern Africa told BBC Focus on Africa radio.

Earlier, the opposition party Unita put the number of dead at around 200. Police said 22 people had been killed, including nine officers after they came under attack from members of the cult.

The BBC's Nigerian football expert Oluwashina Okeleji tweets, external that the national coach who signed a new contract yesterday has been set tough targets:

"CLAUSE: The #Nigeria FA may decide to terminate coach Stephen Keshi's contract if he fails to make it to the semi-finals of the 2016 CHAN."

After crossing the sea between Libya and Italy, Gassama, a Gambian, wanted to warn his friends back home just how dangerous it is.

So he set up a this Facebook group, external to tell them about his experience, with posts like this:

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The BBC got in touch with Gassama who tells us that he plans to continue warning people not to travel.

Tens of thousands of people have rallied in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, against the killing of more than 20 of their nationals by Islamic State (IS) militants in Libya.

"We want revenge for our sons' blood," the protesters chanted.

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The demonstrators also accused the government of failing to tackle poverty. Many of those killed are thought to have been migrants trying to reach Europe.

Abdourahmane Dia
BBC Afrique

Eleven people have been sentenced to life in prison in Guinea for killing eight Ebola workers, while another 15 have been acquitted.

The killings in the village of Wome near the city of Nzerekore last September caused outrage.

Namibia has joined Norway and Canada in opposing the EU ban on seal products.

Bernhard Esau is quoted by The Namibian newspaper, external as saying there is a healthy population of seals off the Namibian coast and they have quotas which make hunting sustainable.

Alex Duval Smith
Bamako, Mali

The presidents of several major Malian football clubs and up to 100 supporters have been taken for questioning at a Bamako police station after attempting to stage a sit-in outside the Malian Football Federation this morning.

The president of the Bamako League, Monzon Traore, told the BBC:

"We wanted to protest against the corruption and fake invoicing that is crippling Malian football from the inside of the federation. We had applied for permission for the sit-in but the police never replied."

The president of the Malian Football Federation Boubakar Diarra, who is also a police general, was not responding to calls about whether charges would be brought.

The BBC's Quentin Somerville is on his way to killed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's birthplace of Sirte and tweets, external about the presence of Islamic State (IS) militants: "Few miles from centre Sirte, IS flag clearly visible & they could see us. IS started mortaring."

Tomi Oladipo
BBC Africa security correspondent

Nigeria's military says it is carrying out "a final push" against militant Islamist group Boko Haram in the Sambisa forest, its last remaining hideout. The militants are believed to have retreated to the forest after regional forces recaptured all towns under its control. With the forest spreading across thousands of kilometres along Cameroon's border, this could be the military's toughest operation in its effort to defeat Boko Haram.

Body bags are pictured on Brighton beach in southern England during a photo call by Amnesty International to highlight what the group says is the UK's "shameful" response to the migrant and refugee crisis in the Mediterranean.

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Around 50 Amnesty supporters lined up 200 black body bags on the famous shingle beach on the eve of an emergency meeting of European leaders in Brussels aimed at ending the crisis, which has claimed more than 1,750 lives this year.