Nigeria's central bank chief says the $20bn being hoarded in bank accounts is damaging the currency
Zambia's deputy opposition leader charged by police
Zimbabwe's President Mugabe says the government will take over all the country's diamond mines
Ex-head of Barclays bank 'looking to buy' Barclays Africa
Final day of campaigning in Benin elections
UN sex abuse allegations 'involve many African peacekeepers'
Email stories and comments to africalive@bbc.co.uk - Friday 4 March 2016
The recent election victory of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has once again raised questions about term limits and democracy in some African countries.
However, the Ugandan leader, who is entering his fifth term in office, is not the only one.
BBC Africa Business Report's Matthew Davies looks at the contrast between Africa's old leaders and its young population.
Nigeria's army council has quashed the conviction of Enitan Ransome-Kuti for failing in his duties when Islamist militants attacked the north-eastern town of Baga in January 2015.
He was tried by a military court last October.
In a short statement, the council said it found him not guilty and ordered that he be released from prison.
It did however reduce his rank to colonel.
The colonel comes from a celebrated Nigerian family. His uncle was the late Afrobreat legend Fela Kuti.
Rana Jawad
BBC North Africa correspondent, Tunis
Two Italians taken hostage in Libya in July have been freed, say the authorities.
The pair are still in Sabratha in north-west Libya for questioning, in what the head of Sabratha Millitary Council, Taher el Gharaballi described as an "investigation".
They will be transferred to Tripoli after that.
They were part of a group of four Italian oil workers who were abducted by gunmen in July, near Libya’s border with Tunisia.
Italy’s foreign ministry said yesterday that the two other hostages may have been killed during a raid by Libyan forces on a hideout used by militants from the so-called Islamic State (IS).
Image source, Getty ImagesA US airstrike targeting a jihadist training camp hit Sabratha in February
Caroline Wyatt
Religious affairs correspondent, Kayanza
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby just met Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza at a mountain-top hotel complex near Kayanza in northern Burundi.
While Mr Nkurunziza left without commenting, Archbishop Welby revealed that the meeting in the country, which has been riven by tension over the president's third term, was pastoral, rather than political.
Quote Message"He acknowledged this was a time where there was a need for reconciliation."
Archbishop Welby
The Archbishop also speculated on the timing of the meeting.
Quote MessageAre we slipping back into the nightmare of the civil war or is this a moment when a turn can be made?"
A political crisis in the country, sparked by President Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term last April, has led thousands to flee.
Image source, ReutersArchbishop Justin Welby arrived in Burundi on Thursday
Polo is called the sport of kings and in Nigeria it has a large following among the wealthy elite, with more than 30 polo clubs.
But Ahmed Umar explains how he has risen from working as a groom to become a polo player:
Zimbabwe's state-owned Herald newspaper, external has got more details of President Robert Mugabe's comments on the government taking over the country's diamond mines.
He has accused diamond firms of robbing the country, but was careful to say that the planned move would not affect relations with the Chinese, the owners of one of the mining companies.
"I don't think it has affected our relations at all," he is quoted as saying.
"I told President Xi Jinping [on his recent visit] that we were not getting much from the company and we didn't like it any more in this country."
Image source, Reuters
European Council President Donald Tusk has warned economic migrants who do not have the correct papers against travelling to Europe, during a new push to solve the EU migrant crisis.
"Do not come to Europe," he said.
"Do not believe the smugglers. Do not risk your lives and your money. It is all for nothing."
More than 25,000 migrants have been left stranded in Greece after several Balkan countries decided only to allow Syrian and Iraqi migrants across their frontiers.
Eritrea and Nigeria feature in the ten countries that the EU receives the most asylum applications from.
Maud Jullien
BBC Africa
Twenty-two year-old Rebecca Kavugho is among the six defendants
Six young democracy activists from the Democratic Republic of Congo have returned to court in the eastern town of Goma.
They were sentenced to two years in prison last week for disobeying the authorities, but the prosecution has appealed and wants other charges to considered, including conspiracy and an attack on state security.
They were arrested on 16 February while preparing banners in support of a general strike protesting against any delay in the upcoming presidential election.
Rights groups have called for their release, calling it a crackdown on dissident voices ahead of the election that's set to take place in November.
One of them, Serge, is an intern in medicine, another Rebecca, is a 22 year old student.
On Sunday people in Benin are voting for their new president.
And the ballot papers are going to have to be long - as there are 33 candidates seeking to take over from President Thomas Yayi Boni.
And today is their last chance to appeal to voters as campaigning wraps up.
We can't fit in pictures of supporters of all the candidates but here are a few:
Image source, Getty ImagesTwo of the country's most influential businessmen are standing for president, including food magnate Ajavon Sebastien
Image source, Getty ImagesThe other influential businessman standing is cotton tycoon Patrice Talon
Image source, Getty ImagesCurrent prime minister and investment banker Lionel Zinsou is standing for the ruling party
Allegations of sexual exploitation or sexual abuse by United Nations peacekeepers have increased, according to a new UN report.
There were 69 claims last year, compared with 52 in 2014.
They're alleged to involve military personnel, international police, other staff and volunteers at 10 missions.
And they're mostly from African countries, namely Cameroon, Congo, Tanzania, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Gabon, Niger, Nigeria, Togo, Rwanda, Ghana, Madagascar and Senegal.
Almost a third of the claims in 2015 were made in the Central African Republic.
The report calls for on-site courts martial and a DNA database of all peacekeepers.
Image source, AFPA lot of the cases involved peacekeepers in CAR and DR Congo
A pan-African TV station based in South Africa has tweeted a short video of Kenya's latest efforts to curb the illegal trade in ivory - sniffer dogs:
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The man who used to run the British-based Barclays bank is looking for backers to help him invest in Barclays Africa, the Financial Times reports, external.
Bod Diamond has been credited with expanding Barclays interest in Africa up until the time he was forced to leave the bank in 2012.
He then created Atlas Mara, a company that specifically looks to invest in African banks, the FT adds.
Earlier this week, Barclays said it would be selling its stake in its African business.
The FT reports that Mr Diamond has been discussing a bid with potential investors.
Image source, Getty ImagesBob Diamond resigned from Barclays after the bank was fined for trying to manipulate inter-bank lending rates
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has accused the country's diamond miners of robbing the country of its wealth and has therefore announced that the state would take control of all diamond operations, Reuters news agency is reporting.
The government had already ordered all mining to stop at the Marange diamond fields over licensing issues, Reuters adds.
"Companies that have been mining diamonds have robbed us of our wealth. That is why we have now said the state must have a monopoly," Mr Mugabe said in a television interview quoted by Reuters.
Zimbabwe is one of the world's top diamond producers and the stones are an important source of foreign exchange for the country.
Image source, PABritish Airways has agreed to pay an undisclosed amount of money to children in East Africa who were sexually abused by one of its pilots.
Lawyers claimed the airline is responsible because the alleged victims were assaulted by Simon Wood while he was on stopovers.
BA agreed to the payment but has denied liability.
Mr Wood, 54, from the UK, allegedly molested girls between the ages of five and 13 in schools and orphanages in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, law firm Leigh Day said in 2014.
He took his own life 11 days before he was due to appear in a UK court in 2013 charged with abuse.
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Quote MessageSheep wander together but have different prices.
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