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'

  1. 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:

  2. 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.

  3. Hundreds 'abducted' in Libyapublished at 15:24 British Summer Time 5 August 2015

    BBC North Africa Correspondent Tweets

  4. '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).

  5. 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: 

  6. 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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  7. 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):

  8. Switching sides?published at 12:35 British Summer Time 5 August 2015

    BBC football reporter tweets

  9. 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:

  10. South Sudan media targetedpublished at 09:38 British Summer Time 5 August 2015

    BBC Monitoring

    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: