Africa highlights: Wednesday 16 September 2015 as it happened

Summary

Ghana protesters tear-gassed
'Rise in attacks' on South Sudan aid workers
Boko Haram militants 'kill 380' in Cameroon
Parliament given 'right' Mugabe speech after heated row

Live Reporting

Clare Spencer and Farouk Chothia

Scroll down for today's storiespublished at 18:00
That's all for today from the BBC Africa Live page. Listen to the Africa Today podcast and keep up-to-date with stories from across the continent on the BBC News website.
Today's African proverb: Old and new millet seeds end up in the same mill . An Acholi proverb sent by Okello Samuel, Gulu, Uganda.
And we leave you with this photo taken by a safari guide in northern Namibia:
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Both teams in football final are first-timerspublished at 17:25 British Summer Time 16 September 2015
The BBC's football reporter tweets on the significance of Friday's All Africa Games final:
South African boxer diespublished at 17:24
A South African boxer has died after being knocked out in the first round of a bout.
Mzwanele Kompolo died in hospital in the town of Frere in the Eastern Cape province, Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula said.
Kompolo was boxing against Siphenathi Qampi when he was knocked out.
Mr Mbalula described him an "up and coming" boxer, and said he was saddened by his death.
He has been tweeting on what exactly happened:
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Sierra Leone floodspublished at 16:48
The BBC's Umaru Fofana has tweeted this picture of the floods in Freetown:
Talks with Boko Haram over Chibok girls?published at 12:29 British Summer Time 16 September 2015
Nigeria's media has been reporting that President Muhammadu Buhari's government is in talks with militant Islamist group Boko Haram to secure the release of 219 girls abducted from the north-eastern town of Chibok more than a year ago.
The BBC Nigeria correspondent has been trying to get clarity on the issue:
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Hissen Habre's trial reaches Day 10published at 10:27 British Summer Time 16 September 2015
Reed Brody, a lawyer with the US-based group Human Rights Watch, is keeping an eye on the former Chadian president's trial in Senegal for alleged war crimes, including 40,000 murders:
Rwandan twins showcase fashion designspublished at 09:49
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Fashion designers, known as the Uwi Twins, are making their debut at the New York Fashion Week this week with their collection "I Left My Heart in Africa".
The 27-year-old twin brothers, Reuben and Levi (pictured above), fled the Rwandan genocide when they were children and grew up in Canada.
Levi told BBC Newsday that going through the genocide "instilled the mentality within us that we have to be chasing your dreams right now because you don't know what's going to happen".
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Rwandan Genocide Survivors debut at New York Fashion Week
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Levi said the gold print in the collection "symbolises the richness of resources in Africa".