This month's Men's World Team Squash Championship due to take place in Egypt's capital, Cairo, has been postponed, the Professional Squash Association website reports, external.

This follows a number of teams, including title holders England, pulling out over security concerns.

“We request this postponement with a heavy heart as Cairo is a safe city,” said the president of Egypt's squash federation Assem Khalifa.  

Sierra Leonean journalist Umaru Fofana has been tweeting from a memorial service for 11 doctors who died during the Ebola epidemic:

A total of 3,955 people died from Ebola in Sierra Leone during the recent outbreak.

The country was declared Ebola free last month.

The UN's humanitarian coordinator in the Central African Republic says that eight civilians have been killed by armed men in a camp for displaced people in the centre of the country, Reuters news agency reports.

One UN peacekeeper was also wounded in the attack in Ngakobo, 60km south of Bambari.

The attack happened on Thursday, just three days after Pope Francis had left the country after a two-day visit where he preached a message of peace.

Uganda's Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa told the BBC that China is welcome in Africa because it does not "interfere in Africa's internal affairs.

He added that "some other countries should learn a lesson" from this behaviour.

He was speaking on the sidelines of the Africa-China summit in Johannesburg.

Listen to more of his interview:

Our satirist is aghast that a whistle blower who paid bribes said it was the "cost of doing business in Africa". 

Catch up on his sideways view of this week's goings on across the continent:

Satire series What's Up Africa is a BBC and RNW Media co-production.

It's broadcast on Wednesdays and Fridays on Focus on Africa on BBC World News & partner stations across Africa from 1730gmt

A growing interest in African art means that pieces are increasingly fetching high prices at auction - one piece recently sold for $1.5m (£1m).

But it still has some way to go to compete with the high prices that some works get.

The BBC's Lerato Mbele reports:

The BBC's Bashkas Jugsodaay had to roll up his trousers to get the full story on the impact that Kenya's flooded Tana River is having on the farmers.

The farmers told him that the recent flooding meant that they lost the crops they were waiting to harvest.

Many had lost livestock because of a drought earlier this year.

When Tanzanian President John  Magafuli was voted into power recently he started making surprise visits to check public servants were doing their jobs properly.

Our satirical president Olushambles was inspired to copy this. But his resolve didn’t last for long.

China has pledged $60bn in new money for the continent and the Xinhua news agency has summed up where the money is going:

Telecoms company MTN has said it is "carefully considering" the fine it now has to pay Nigeria's Communication Commission (NCC) for failing to cut off unregistered users, AFP news agency reports.

Earlier (12.23) we reported that the NCC had made a typing error in a letter to MTN explaining that the original $5.2bn had been reduced.

The fine now stands at $3.9bn not $3.4bn as was thought on Thursday.

MTN said its chairman and acting chief executive Phuthuma Nhleko would hold more talks with the Nigerian authorities.

Image source, AFP

On the sidelines of the Africa-China summit in Johannesburg Uganda's Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa has told BBC Focus on Africa that "relations between Africa and China have been going from strength to strength and this particular forum has enhanced the relationship". 

"Given the level of contribution that China is making to Africa's development I think it's an extremely important summit," he added.

Image source, Reuters

There are at least 35 African heads of state at the Africa-China summit in Johannesburg - a chance for some to catch up.

The spokesperson for Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari tweeted this picture of his boss having a chat with Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe.

Farah Yusuf
BBC Monitoring, Nairobi

The Somali-dominated Eastleigh suburb of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, has a reputation for insecurity.

But a business summit hopes to change that, according to Kenya's Star newspaper, external.

It says the Eastleigh Business Summit will bring together more than 100 firms and seek to assure investors that the area in Nairobi is safe for business, the newspaper says.  

Image source, Star Newspaper

A handy article put together by South Africa's Wits University, external tries to address what it calls five "remarkably durable" myths about China's relationship with Africa.

Myth number two is that China is Africa's biggest investor, it says in fact that it is number seven on the list, "far behind the United States, Germany, and even the United Arab Emirates".

It says that investment is often confused with the fact that China is Africa's largest trading partner.

Image source, AP

The other four myths the article addresses are:

• Chinese companies in Africa only hire Chinese workers
• China exports prison labour to Africa
• African imports into China make up a large portion of China's trade 
• Chinese investments are centrally planned in Beijing

More than 35 heads of state are at the China-Africa meeting in Johannesburg, and they - or their press people - have been keen to tell the world about it on Twitter:

Newly minted graduates at the University of Nairobi must be tweeting furiously during their graduation ceremony earlier today as they made the event a trending topic on Twitter in Kenya.

And in case you are reading this thinking it is too late to start new research, the university's vice chancellor has tweeted this as inspiration:

Here's a picture of the Marrakech Film Festival getting ready to open today.

And on a walk around Marrakech yesterday, instagrammer Moonabay spotted this old cinema, she wishes would re-open.

She is also getting very excited about an appearance by Hollywood royalty, Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola and his daughter, fellow film director Sofia Coppola. 

A spokesman for the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) has admitted that a typing error led it to give the wrong figure for a reduction in the fine it has handed to MTN mobile phone network, Bloomberg news agency reports, external.

It was reported on Thursday that the fine for failing to cut off unregistered users had gone down from $5.2bn to $3.4bn.

But now MTN has been told the fine is half a billion dollars higher at $3.9bn.

Bloomberg says that NCC spokesman Tony Ojobo told them that "there was a typo" in its original letter.

"We saw the mistake and had to fix it," he added.

Oops.

Image source, Reuters

A senior police officer in charge of special units set up to protect institutions in Burundi has himself been the target of an attack. 

Police say uniformed men opened fire on a convoy they believed to be carrying General Christophe Manirambona in the capital, Bujumbura. 

The general was not travelling in the convoy at the time. 

Three of the attackers were killed and a number of weapons recovered. 

Burundi has experienced a wave of violence since April when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced that he was running for a third term.

Image source, AFP

China's President Xi Jinping has been talking to the more than 35 African heads of state at the China-Africa summit in Johannesburg.

He has been praising the continent as well talking about the historical ties.

• "Today's Africa is a continent of encouraging and dynamic development."
• "Africa has actively advanced industrialisation and pursued sustainable self-development such a momentum of rapid growth is unstoppable."
• "I am convinced that African countries and people are embracing a new era that is truly theirs."  
• "China and Africa share a common future, we Chinese and Africans have forged strong friendship through our common historical experience and in our common struggles."

You can watch the speech here: