Former South Africa batsman Gulam Bodi has been charged with match-fixing by the country's national cricket body.

Cricket South Africa says Bodi is the "intermediary" who was charged under its anti-corruption code in December.

The India-born 37-year-old played two one-day internationals and a Twenty20 for the Proteas in 2007.

Bodi, who is yet to respond, is charged with "contriving to fix, or otherwise improperly influence aspects of the 2015 Ram Slam T20 Challenge Series".

For more, read the BBC Sports story

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The authorities in Egypt have prevented a well-known poet from travelling to the Netherlands to collect a freedom of expression award from Pen International.

Omar Hazek told the BBC that he was strip-searched and questioned at Cairo airport for nearly five hours.

He was then told he was not allowed to travel for security reasons.

Mr Hazek was freed from jail last September by a presidential pardon three months before the end of a two-year sentence for taking part in a protest.

After his release, he published a three-part commentary headlined, “Why do prisoners die in Egypt?”

A group of Ethiopian schoolchildren have been taking inspiration from 90s rock band Nirvana to improve their English, music magazine NME reports, external. 

Their teacher, Matt Westerberg, a US peace corp volunteer at Yechila secondary school in northern Ethiopia, taught his students the lyrics to Nirvana's decade-defining anthem "Smells Like Teen Spirit", to help improve their language skills. 

A video of them covering the song (see below) has been viewed 10,000 times on YouTube.

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The family of Jonas Savimbi, the Angolan rebel leader who was killed in 2002, are suing the makers of the popular video game Call of Duty for representing his character as a "barbarian", the AFP news agency quotes their lawyer as saying.

Carole Enfert said the Unita rebel chief in the Black Ops II game is represented as a "big halfwit who wants to kill everybody", and that it was an "outrageous" image that does not reflect his personality as a "political leader and strategist".

AFP says three of Savimbi's children, who live in France, are seeking more than $1m (£695,000) in damages from the French branch of Activision Blizzard.

But a lawyer for Activision Blizzard, Etienne Kowalski, said the “guerrilla chief who fought the MPLA” was shown in a "rather favourable light" as a "good guy who comes to help the heroes". 

The Call of Duty franchise has grossed more than $10bn since its launch in 2003. 

Polling research organisation Afrobaromater has been tweeting infographics from its new report, looking at the demand from Africans for improved infrastructure on the continent.

It says the speed at which access to mobile phones has increased has far outstripped progress in other basic service areas like water and electricity. 

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BBC Africa, Monrovia

Liberians need to remain vigilant to protect themselves against Ebola, Depuy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah has told the BBC as the country, along with the whole of West Africa, was today declared free of the virus.

“Today is a happy day again for us; but mind you this is not the first time we’ve been declared free.

“But the good news is the entire region is [now] free.”

Ebola tests would still be carried out on all dead bodies before burial, he said.

Follay Gallah, an ambulance driver who contracted the disease while intervening in an affected community in 2014, said the news was welcome, but warned that a period of between one to three years was needed to be “totally safe”.

He also complained that some hospitals refused to treat survivors seeking help for other ailments, fearing they were still infectious.

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This morning's Gathara cartoon for Kenya's Daily Star newspaper targets food safety issues in the capital Nairobi. 

It follows reports in local media, external that scientists found dangerous levels of toxic chemicals in samples of food being sold in the city.

The contamination of certain foods, including fruit, poultry and dairy products, has been blamed by experts for an increase in health problems in the capital, the privately owned Daily Nation newspaper reports.

One of the report's most worrying allegations surrounds the "rampant" use of transformer oil, intended for the insulation of electric devices, which instead is being sold on the black market and used as cooking oil for French fries.  

African lions are set to gain greater international protection this year in the wake of the killing of Cecil the lion by an American dentist in Zimbabwe in 2015.

Tough new US regulations on the importation of lion trophies will come into force on 22 January.

Lions from central and western Africa are to be classified as endangered while those from southern and eastern Africa are to be seen as threatened.

The move will make it significantly more difficult to import lion heads, paws or skins from all parts of the continent.

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Separately, the global body that governs trade in species - the Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species, external (Cites) -  also expects moves to enhance the status of lions in 2016.  

Cites currently lists African lions under Appendix II, meaning that trade in the creatures is regulated by permit.

There are calls to upgrade them Appendix I, which would would see all trade banned and would have an significant impact on the trade in lion bones.

Exports of these bones from South Africa have boomed in recent years. Between 2008 and 2011, a study found that 1,160 lion skeletons were legally exported, external, with 91% of the bones going to Laos.

"What we are seeing is trade in lion bones as a replacement for increasingly rare tiger bones - this is an increasing concern for a species that is in pretty serious decline," said Mark Jones from the Born Free Foundation.

For more read the BBC Science story.

A friend of the Somali-born supermodel and activist Iman has told US' People magazine, external that she is "holding up" following the death of her husband David Bowie. 

Iman shared photos of Bowie on her Instagram account in the days leading up to his death, but has not spoken in public since. 

She also posted the quote: "Sometimes you will never know the truly value of a moment until it becomes a memory". 

Hollywood actress Rosario Dawson also posted a tribute to the couple on her account: 

The two have a daughter Alexandria Zahra Jones, born in 2000.  

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David Bowie: A life in pictures

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BBC Africa, Johannesburg

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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has appointed a commission of inquiry to look into the feasibility of free higher education following nationwide protests by university students last year.

The demonstrations flared up on campuses in a campaign known as #FeeesMustFall.

President Zuma responded by announcing that there would be no university fee increases for 2016 and promised that the government would look into the wider concerns affecting universities.

This inquiry will be chaired by retired Supreme Court of Appeal Judge Jonathan Heher.

It must complete its work within eight months.

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Hundreds of parents of the girls kidnapped from their school in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Chibok are marching through the capital, Abuja. 

There are high emotions, as they mark 600 days since they were taken by Islamist Boko Haram militants.

They are marching to the presidential villa where they want to meet President Muhammadu Buhari, who shocked them when he revealed recently that there was no credible intelligence to suggest where the girls were.

Some parents are so upset that they have sat down in middle of the road crying and wailing. A bus is going to come and take them to the venue. 

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The third Test of the South Africa v England series is under way in Johannesburg, with the hosts winning the toss and choosing to bat. 

South Africa are 44-0 at the moment. 

Follow live text and Test Match Special commentary from the third Test.

South Africa were forced into a late change for the third Test against England after wicket keeper Quinton de Kock suffered a knee injury.  

England lead the four-match series 1-0 after winning the first Test in Durban.  

Here are some more details from the WHO statement on the end to the Ebola outbreak.

“Detecting and breaking every chain of transmission has been a monumental achievement,” said Margaret Chan, WHO chief.

“So much was needed and so much was accomplished by national authorities, heroic health workers, civil society, local and international organisations and generous partners. But our work is not done and vigilance is necessary to prevent new outbreaks.”

The epidemic has claimed the lives of more than 11,300 people and infected more than 28,500.

The statement said that the disease “wrought devastation to families, communities and the health and economic systems of all three countries”.

How Ebola started with one boy's death

Here's a look at how the Ebola cases spread and peaked across three countries in West Africa over the last two years:

For a more in-depth look at the deadliest occurrence of the disease since its discovery in 1976, read Ebola: Mapping the outbreak.

Imogen Foulkes
BBC News, Geneva

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an end to the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, meaning that all known chains of transmission of the disease have been stopped in West Africa.

But the WHO warns the job of defeating Ebola is not yet over, and more flare ups are expected.

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A rumour that Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, 91, has suffered a heart attack is a "grim lie", his spokesman George Charamba is quoted by the state-run Herald newspaper as saying, external. 

Online news website Zim Eye said yesterday that Mr Mugabe was believed to have collapsed after suffering a heart attack while on holiday with his family. 

"This is the way the website seeks to improve its hits in order to get dirty money from Google. There is a financial incentive to the grim lie," Mr Charamba told The Herald.

"You cannot doubt that there will be a story on the president's alleged death every January," he added. 

Liberia is to be declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization (WHO), effectively putting an end to the world's worst outbreak of the disease.

The "end of active transmission" will be declared after 42 days without a new case in Liberia.

It joins Guinea and Sierra Leone, which earned the status last year.

However, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has warned that West Africa may see flare-ups of the virus. It has killed more than 11,000 people since December 2013.

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