That's all for this week from the BBC Africa Live page. Listen to the Africa Today podcast and keep up-to-date with developments across the continent on the BBC News website. 

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We leave you with this from Africa's week in pictures of breaking bread in the Libyan desert:

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French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has ordered an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of children by French soldiers in the Central African Republic. 

The United Nations said it had uncovered six more cases of children being sexually abused by European soldiers, at or near a refugee camp at Bangui airport. 

French soldiers serving in France's Sangaris force are already being investigated over allegations they forced children to perform sexual acts in exchange for food. 

Georgia has said it's also investigating similar allegations against its troops.

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We've been hearing from you on Faceboo, externalk on our latest question for the BBC Africa Debate:

Can Africa afford free education?

Malueth Agany, who is currently a university student in South Sudan where he says he is charged "huge amount".

Ugandan Patrick Bihugyeho says it is possible where he lives, in South Africa:

And Brandon Max Tshabatau says this is already happening in his country.

Listen to the debate on BBC World Service radio tonight at 1900 GMT.

There is an indication that the African Union could be changing its mind on sending a peacekeeping force to Burundi.

Just before the start of an AU Peace and Security Council meeting addressing the Burundi situation, Tanzania's Foreign Minister Augustine Mahiga told the BBC that "the issue is no longer about sending troops".

Talking to Sammy Awami in Addis Ababa Mr Mahiga said "the issue now is when and how to have a dialogue between government and opposition groups”.

Last month, the AU announced a plan to send 5,000 peacekeepers to protect civilians in Burundi.

Hundreds have died and many people have fled the country since the political crisis began last April, when President Pierre Nkurunziza said he would run for a third term.

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Here's the latest picture of the two foreign journalists who were arrested, and then released, in Burundi's capital, Bujumbura.

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French journalist for Le Monde newspaper, Jean Philippe Remy, and British freelance photographer Phil Moore were speaking in the hall outside the Prosecutor's office.

Mr Moore was originally accused of being with armed criminals, which he denied. 

The authorities are still looking at the journalists' phones and cameras, reports the BBC's Prime Ndikumagenge in Burundi.

The African Union's Peace and Security Council is meeting with many presidents present.

This is ahead of Saturday's full heads of state summit.

Topics on the agenda include the situation in Burundi and South Sudan, and the AU's commissioner for peace and security has been tweeting his reflections:

The African Union is pushing for an AU force to be deployed in Burundi, but the government there does not want it.

So what was the country's foreign minister telling Kenya's president here? 

Kenyan fashionista Diana Opoti has been on a mission to wear African clothes for 100 days.

And it looks like she's nearing the end of the challenge.

She stopped counting at day 87 but by our reckoning she's on day 98.

She's been sharing her outfits on Instagram, which shows she has been getting clothes from all over the continent.

Her latest outfit is inspired by the Tanzanian style of art TingaTinga:

Day 61's beaded corset was designed in Kenya.

  Her day 51 shift dress came from Nigeria.

And it all began in Uganda on day one.

Ishaq Khalid
BBC Africa, Bauchi, Nigeria

The number of people killed by a suicide bomber at a market in Gombi town in north-east Nigeria (see 13.55 entry) has risen to at least eight.

A spokesperson from Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency told me eight people have been confirmed dead, but hospital sources put the figure at 15 and the number injured at 40.

What started as a hashtag to promote literacy in Ghana has turned into an opportunity for Ghanaians to share stories about their commute on the minibus taxis, or tro tros.

#TroTroVibes was initiated by a group of performance poets who designated today as the day to perform their work on minibuses of Ghana's capital, Accra.

According to an online statement, they want to "educate their audience about social issues, external" and get them more interested in reading.

But people are using the hashtag to share transport tales:

A mate is the conductor on the tro tro - and tro tro literally means pennies.

The African Union's Peace and Security Council, with heads of state leading the delegations, has just started its meeting in Addis Ababa with a minute's silence.

Kenyan soldiers, who were part of the AU force in Somalia, were targeted in an al-Shabab attack a fortnight ago.

A full heads of state summit will start on Saturday.

In an earlier post we pointed out how many footballers are announcing they are moving clubs today.

In the frenzy we missed a particularly significant part of this.

The BBC’s Piers Edwards points out that one of the footballers, French ex-Chelsea player Florent Malouda, is going to an African club.

Malouda will move to Egypt’s Wadi Degla FC.

This is a reversal of the normal trend for African players ending up in Europe.

Sports news website King Fut has one explanation as to how this came about, external -  the 35-year-old has a strong relationship with Patrice Carteron, who recently agreed to manage Wadi Dagla. 

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South Sudan President Salva Kiir will not be attending the African Union summit in Ethiopia, reports South Sudan's Eye Radio website, external.

South Sudan's ambassador in Addis Ababa, Akuei Bona Malwal, said the president is busy in Juba forming a new cabinet. 

The summit is expected to discuss the South Sudan peace process which has failed to be implemented due to disagreements between the two warring sides. 

Eye Radio quotes the ambassador as saying that the president will be represented by the chief negotiator Nhial Deng Nhial and Foreign Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin. 

When news came out that 25% of students in South Africa failed their end of school exams, the education minister declared schools as in a "state of crisis".

But the BBC’s Milton Nkosi found the level of education may be worse than that figure indicates. 

That's because there is a massive drop out rate before pupils even take the exams.

One figure indicates slightly less than half of children who registered at school at seven years old went on to take the school leaving exam.

Read more on the BBC News website.

There have been a series of security meetings ahead of Saturday's African Union heads of state summit.

The AU's Peace and Security Council has tweeted a comment by Nigeria's Defence Minister Muhammad Dan Ali that Boko Haram "will be destroyed":

Two international journalists have been freed by the authorities in Burundi. 

Jean-Philippe Remy from France and a British photographer, Phil Moore, were arrested on Thursday along with 15 local people and accused of accompanying armed criminals. 

The BBC's Prime Ndikumagenge reports that the journalists' phones have been held for further investigation.

The national council of communication has cancelled their accreditation.

The name for the West African drum the djembe loosely translates from the Bambara language as "gather in peace".

Playing them is becoming increasingly popular around the world and Africa Business Report went along to a drumming lesson in south London, UK, to take a look.

Playing the African djembe drum is growing in popularity outside of its native continent.

Our Twitter and Facebook post highlighting the angry reaction in Nigeria to The Economist newspaper calling the former President Goodluck Jonathan "an ineffectual buffoon" (see 11.04 entry) has led to a lot more comments.

And these reactions are mirrored on Facebook:

And another commenter says we should be praising the former President Jonathan

While the BBC's Sammy Awami waited for the African Union's Peace and Security Council meeting to get going today, he snapped the portraits hanging at the AU's headquarters in Addis Ababa of some of Africa's liberation leaders.

Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, one of the founders of the Organisation of African Unity, can be seen bottom right, Kenya's first President Jomo Kenyatta is just above him, and to the left of his picture is Uganda's Milton Obote

In this set, you can see Zambia's first President Kenneth Kaunda and his Tanzanian counterpart Julius Nyerere, among others.

Who else can you spot?

An African Union heads of state summit is due to open on Saturday.

Ishaq Khalid
BBC Africa, Bauchi, Nigeria

A suicide bomber has attacked a market in Nigeria's north-eastern town of Gombi, Adamawa state.

The casualty figures are still unclear, but Adamawa state police spokesman Othman Abubakar said three people including the bomber were confirmed dead, while 17 others were injured.   

An eye witness told me that he saw at least eight dead bodies, after the blast which happened at 12:00 GMT (13:00 local time). 

Residents told me they saw mutilated bodies as they ran in panic, with traders abandoning their stalls.

The bombers who attacked Chibok, north-east Nigeria on Wednesday were men wearing hijabs, according to Nigerian military, the AP news agency reports. 

AP adds that the explosives were strapped to their backs to look like babies.

At least 13 people were killed in multiple explosions. 

Chibok is the town where the Islamist militant group Boko Haram abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in 2014.