Scroll down for Friday's storiespublished at 18:09 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2016
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That's it from us this week.
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Today's African proverb was:
"The way you bring up a child is how it ends up being."
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And we leave you with this picture of peace and love taken by the BBC's Ley Uwera at the Amani festival in Goma, DRC.