Africa highlights: Friday 13 November 2015, as it happened

Summary

Nigeria army "repels" Boko Haram attack
Kenya to set up anti-doping agency
Old South African university plans to switch from Afrikaans to English
ICC convict Katanga to be released early
African Union discusses Burundi crisis
Email stories and comments to africalive@bbc.co.uk - Friday 13 November 2015

Live Reporting

Clare Spencer and Damian Zane

Ghana's undercover journalist unmaskedpublished at 18.09
Dozens of judges in Ghana are being investigated following the release of a documentary by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
The film captured the judges on tape allegedly taking bribes. More than 30 judges and 170 judicial officers were implicated in the country's biggest corruption scandal.
Mr Anas has been speaking to BBC Focus on Africa's Sammy Darko for the first time since the film was released - and he even took off his trademark beaded face veil.
Confused about peace prizespublished at 17.24
Our satirical President Olushambles is wondering how Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe won a peace prize.
What would it take for him too to get the Chinese version of the Nobel?
Have a listen to him plot:
Drumming up supportpublished at 17:15
This is Africa website is highlighting the drumming talents of nine-year-old South African Sihle Maseko.
Earlier this year a video was posted of the boy playing a home-made drum kit:
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There was such a big response to the video that his uncle decided to buy a proper drum kit, This is Africa reports.
And the result is this:
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Something to enjoy for the weekend!
AU in CAR ahead of electionspublished at 16:59
An African Union-led delegation is in the capital of the Central African Republic, Bangui, to see the situation ahead of elections at the end of December.
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Can fashion change perceptions of Africa?published at 16.48
When two biomedical students in the UK met on their undergraduate degree they were brought together by their shared African heritage.
Kiran Yoliswa, whose family is from Zimbabwe, and Alae Ismail, whose family is from Eritrea, scrapped their plans and took a completely different route.
"We wanted to start conversations about the great things that are happening in Africa by using fashion and the creative scene," Ms Ismail told the BBC.
So they started buying clothes from across Africa and selling them - online first and later in a shop.
They told the BBC's Nora Fakim that their target customers are Michelle Obama types - that's "well-established women in corporate settings".
Ghana in goalless away draw with Comorospublished at 14:05 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2015
Ghana have only managed a 0-0 draw with Comoros away in the first leg of their 2018 World Cup qualifier.
A BBC sports reporter tweets the details:
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African Union meet to discuss Burundi violencepublished at 12:56 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2015
The Peace and Security Department of the African Union Commission has tweeted that they are meeting to discuss what to do about the violence in Burundi:
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Could the US launch drones to Libya from Tunisia?published at 12.32
The BBC North Africa correspondent has been tweeting while listening US Secretary of State John Kerry who is in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia:
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He also used Tunisia as an example of peacefulness:
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'We'll give you the interview if the black guy leaves'published at 11:14
The presenter of the BBC's Newsday radio programme Nkem Ifejika, who is from Nigeria, has been in Poland and attended the Independence Day march in Warsaw.
He says in the interview that, as far as he could tell, he was the only person of colour in a crowd of thousands.
He was jostled and one man shouted "Sieg Heil" at him.
Others refused to talk to him because of his colour.
This is what Nkem made of the events.
Police clash with students at SA student fees protestpublished at 10.59
Reports are coming through of clashes with police at a protest at a South African university campus.
Eye Witness news reports stones were thrown by demonstrators and police threw stun grenades at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town.
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The news site tweeted this video of protests:
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And later a video of protesters being arrested:
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A protester told EWN one reason behind the demonstration:
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Afrikaans trending on Twitter in South Africapublished at 10.24
"Afrikaans" is trending on Twitter in South Africa after the announcement that elite university Stellenbosch is going to going to swtich from teaching in Afrikaans to English.
People are tweeting about the wider meaning to South Africa:
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But not everyone is convinced that there will be a positive outcome:
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