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We'll be back in 2016
That's it from us for 2015. We're going to have a lie down.
We'll be back on 4 January. Until then, keep up-to-date with news from across Africa on the Africa Today podcast and the BBC News website.
Our proverb of the day was: "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito."
It was sent by Macduff Odoms in Lagos, Nigeria, and Boniface Bazil in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Click here to tell us your proverbs.
Goodbye from us and goodbye from the highly trained landmine detecting rat in a Santa hat: