Africa highlights: Wednesday 5 August 2015

Summary

Sudan 'frees' pastors accused of spying
Ethiopians 'executed' in Saudi Arabia
Hundreds feared dead after boat capsizes off Libya
Cameroon sending back '12,000 Nigerian refugees'
Stolen South African car 'found after 22 years'

Live Reporting

Naziru Mikailu and Farouk Chothia

Nigeria artist releases new songpublished at 17:39 British Summer Time 5 August 2015
Popular Nigerian musician Olubankole Wellington, who is known as Banky W, has released a new song called #HighNotes which is now trending on Twitter in Nigeria:
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Many of his fans have been reacting to the new song:
Your reaction to South Africa stolen carpublished at 16:21 British Summer Time 5 August 2015
Many of you have been commenting on our story of police in South Africa finding a car that was stolen in 1993 (see 09:04 and 15:09 posts):
Send us your comment using #BBCAfricaLive on social media or text us on +447756205075.
Hundreds 'abducted' in Libyapublished at 15:24 British Summer Time 5 August 2015
BBC North Africa Correspondent Tweets
'Welcome home' to Somaliapublished at 15:22 British Summer Time 5 August 2015
The UN refugee agency is tweeting the arrival of some Somali refugees returning home from Kenya (see 13.51 post).
Angola to celebrate in stylepublished at 14:57 British Summer Time 5 August 2015
BBC Africa producer tweets on the music stars who will be on stage in Angola's capital, Luanda, on 11 November:
Footballer on the movepublished at 14:28 British Summer Time 5 August 2015
Mali's international winger has been tweeting about his move from Wolverhampton Wanderers to Crystal Palace in the English Premiership League:
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Aid for Lake Victoria crash survivorspublished at 13:13 British Summer Time 5 August 2015
Staff from a Kenyan medical agency have been helping survivors of last night's collision between a passenger and fishing boat (see 09:01 post):
Switching sides?published at 12:35 British Summer Time 5 August 2015
BBC football reporter tweets
First China-Kenya direct flightpublished at 11:52 British Summer Time 5 August 2015
A Chinese airline has been tweeting about its first direct flight from China to Kenya's capital, Nairobi:
South Sudan media targetedpublished at 09:38 British Summer Time 5 August 2015
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Authorities in South Sudan have shut down two more media outlets in the capital, Juba.
Privately-owned Arabic language newspaper Al-Rai and FM station Free Voice-South Sudan were closed by the National Security Service (NSS) yesterday after they had earlier shut The Citizen newspaper.
Officials alleged that one of Al-Rai's board members, Lam Kuei, had left the country to join the opposition.
A private radio station which is still open has been tweeting about the crackdown: