Africa highlights: Wednesday 26 August 2015

Summary

South Sudan's leader signs peace deal
China in huge investment in Nigeria
Kenya's Julius Yego wins javelin gold
Somalia's first international literature festival

Live Reporting

Hugo Williams and Farouk Chothia

Why are straight Tanzanian women marrying each other?published at 17:10 British Summer Time 26 August 2015
Marriages of convenience happen all over the world - and for many different reasons.
In Mara region in the northern corner of Tanzania, an age-old tradition involves women marrying women, as a way to beat inheritance practices which favour.
This alternative family structure - known as Nyumba Nthobu - has adapted to modern times. The BBC's Tulanana Bohela has been finding out more:
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Photos from Mogadishu book fairpublished at 16:38 British Summer Time 26 August 2015
Somali journalist tweets:
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Hausa speakers celebrate their languagepublished at 16:11 British Summer Time 26 August 2015
The hashtag #RanarHausa, external has been trending on Twitter in Nigeria after a blogger encouraged Hausa speakers to only tweet in their language.
"Ranar Hausa" means "Hausa day", and the aim of the hashtag is to celebrate the language.
At least 50 million people speak Hausa, which is one of the most widely spoken languages in Africa. As well as Nigeria, it is spoken in Niger, Ghana, Cameroon and a number of other countries.
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Mansur Liman, the head of the BBC's Hausa service, finished his tweet with a wish in Hausa: "May the language continue to grow".
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bbchausa.com reaches 3.5 million unique visitors every month
Yaya congratulates Kenya on medal tablepublished at 15:56 British Summer Time 26 August 2015
Ivory Coast and Manchester City football star Yaya Toure has tweeted his congratulations to Team Kenya, who currently sit atop the medal table in Beijing after winning two more gold medals today:
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Quotes from Kiir's speechpublished at 15:27 British Summer Time 26 August 2015
LA Times Correspondent Robyn Dixon was live-tweeting Salva Kiir's speech as he signed the peace deal aimed at bringing an end to South Sudan's civil war:
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South Sudanese radio station Eye Radio also covered the speech live on its twitter feed:
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Reaction to men's 400m finalpublished at 14:49 British Summer Time 26 August 2015
BBC's Chief Sports writer tweets:
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Graduation day in Somalilandpublished at 14:37 British Summer Time 26 August 2015
BBC Somali service reporter tweets:
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Praise for javelin star after monster throwpublished at 13:10 British Summer Time 26 August 2015
People have been reacting on Twitter after Kenya's Julius Yego went into first place in the javelin at the World Athletics Championships, breaking his own African record in the process.
Dignitaries in South Sudan for peace dealpublished at 11:51 British Summer Time 26 August 2015
BBC reporter in Juba tweets:
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Leaders arrive to witness South Sudan dealpublished at 10:51 British Summer Time 26 August 2015
South Sudanese radio station tweets:
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Victory for Botswana HIV positive prisonerspublished at 09:58 British Summer Time 26 August 2015
Botswana's Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of two HIV positive prisoners who challenged the government’s policy of refusing HIV treatment to prisoners who are non-citizens, the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) tweets:
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