Summary

  • Ten Boko Haram suspects sentenced to death in Chad

  • Fishing boats off Libya search for more bodies after migrant vessels capsized

  • Kenya still top of World Athletics medal table

  • Ghana confirms IS recruited two Ghanaians

  • Guinea's exiled former leader says president blocking return home

Live Reporting

Naziru Mikailu and Damian Zane

  1. Standing up for Chibok schoolgirls

    A campaigner for the Bring Back Our Girls movement in Nigeria tweets a video of her standing in the rain at the group's main protest side in the capital, Abuja.

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  2. First female spokesperson for Nigeria police

    Nigeria state-owned TV tweets about a new police spokesperson appointed by the country's police inspector general:

  3. Get Involved: Kenya tops athletic medals table

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    Some of you have responded to our post on Twitter asking if Kenya will be able to maintain their lead at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing, China:

  4. Ancient religious sites burnt down in Madagascar

    Three ancient royal temples in Madagascar have been destroyed in a suspected arson attack. 

    The buildings outside the capital, Antananarivo, form part of the island's second most important sacred site, and houses tombs of the ancestors of the Merina people - the dominant ethnic group in pre-colonial times. 

    Photographs show the timber-framed buildings at the town of Ambohidratrimo engulfed by flames. 

    A BBC reporter in Madagascar says other royal tombs were set on fire last week.

  5. South Sudan's struggling economy

    South Sudanese are struggling to keep their companies afloat as a result of the brutal conflict which broke out between government and rebel forces in December 2013. 

    But despite the challenges of the civil war, which should be coming to an end, there are entrepreneurs and businesses with big hopes. 

    Watch this report by Catherine Byaruhanga from Juba.

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  6. Liberia sacks two ministers

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  7. SA government defends leasing of Gupta private jet

    The South African government has been responding to the reports that the Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa flew to Japan last week in a private jet owned by the Gupta family.

    This has raised eyebrows because of a number of connections between the presidency and the wealthy family.

    The government has denied there was any wrongdoing in a briefing that has also being tweeted:

    It says the leasing process was above board:

    And there was a call to journalists not to make a story where there wasn't one:

  8. More than 300,000 migrants cross Mediterranean

    A spokesperson for the UN's refugee agency has been talking about the number of migrants trying to reach Europe - saying the figure for 2015 has now topped 300,000.