Scroll down for today's newspublished at 18:04 British Summer Time 7 May 2015
That's it from us today. Listen to the Africa Today podcast and keep up-to-date with stories from across the continent on the BBC News website.
We leave you with this photo of students in Soweto joking around on their way home from school. They are on a street in the South African township littered with stones after a protest over unaffordable electricity prices and new pre-paid metres.