That's all from BBC Africa Live today. Keep up-to-date with what's happening across the continent by listening to the Africa Today podcast or checking the BBC News website.

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And we leave you with one of the most stunning pictures from this week - a mural painted on the walls of houses in Egypt's capital, Cairo, by French-Tunisian artist El Seed:

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It's not easy being a journalist in Ethiopia according to the lobby group Reporters Without Borders - which placed the country 142nd out of 180 on its press freedom index, external.

But some journalists there have been trying to cover the recent anti-government protests in the country's Oromia region.

The English-language Addis Standard magazine published this stark cover in January:

So what motivates the team behind the magazine?

Its Editor-in-Chief Tsedale Lemma says she lives in a "perpetual twilight zone of taking chances".

The BBC’s Emmanuel Igunza in Addis Ababa asked her how she managed to cover the protests.  

Lots of people have been commenting on our Facebook post about the Zambian currency, external, the kwacha, being the world's best-performing currency of 2016 so far.

Ivan Sang Che Aiyabei from Nairobi in Kenya was among many commenters to suggest one thing might have influenced the change:

President Edgar Lungu asked for a day of forgiveness and reconciliation to be observed to help combat the economic problems facing the country last year on Sunday 18 October.

Zambia's domestic football fixtures were postponed, bar owners had been asked to close their businesses and thousands gathered in the capital, Lusaka, to pray - in part in an effort to help change the economic situation.

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Two weeks later BBC Business reported that an approach more familiar to economists was taken: 

The central bank has pushed interest rates up to 15.5% to try and curb soaring inflation.

The kwacha rose around 0.6% against the dollar following the announcement.  

Leon Mugesera has been pictured leaving the courtroom after being jailed for life for preaching genocide in Rwanda's in 1994:

We wrote in our 15:05 post that the former politician who described Tutsis as "cockroaches" and called for their extermination has been jailed for life in Rwanda over the 1994 genocide.

In 1992, then an official in Rwanda's ruling Hutu party, Mugesera told more than 1,000 party members that they should kill Tutsis and dump their bodies in the river. 

Read the full story on the  BBC News website.

Mohanad Hashim
BBC Africa

Following a week of student protests at the University of Khartoum the Sudanese government has denied any plan to sell the university’s historical buildings in the centre of the city. 

The student protests were triggered following a statement made by the minister of tourism where he suggested that there were plans to sell the university’s iconic building to foreign investors to boost tourism. 

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Originally founded in 1902 by the British colonial administration as the Gordon Memorial College, it came to hold a special place in the Sudanese public imagination as a bastion of patriotism and nationalism. 

Most of Sudan’s leading politicians and elite studied there, and the university’s student union was influential in launching the October 1964 uprising that ousted the government of General Abboud, and the 1985 April uprising that ended the 16-year reign of Marshall Numairi. 

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The BBC's Michael Kaloki was just passing Kenya's national theatre in the capital, Nairobi, and snapped some young artists taking part in a regular Friday afternoon performance called the Abakisimba Percussion Discussion, external. 

Michael spoke to the manager - who goes by the stage name Baby Elephant - who told him that performers are invited to sing, talk and rap about issues that people can go back home and think about.  

Former coup leader Azali Assoumani has been narrowly elected president of the Comoros islands in the second round of voting, according to official results, AFP news agency reports.

It was an extremely close race.

Mr Assoumani won 40.98% of the vote ahead of his rival Vice President Mohamed Ali Soilihi who got 39.87%.

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A lot of Zambians have been asking on our Facebook page, external why prices are still high when the kwacha is the best performing currency of 2016.

The assumption behind this question is that when you get more kwacha for your dollar it makes imports cheaper.

But why hasn't this happened?  

Well one explanation is that although the kwacha has risen against the dollar, it started from a very low position.

According to xe.com one kwacha is equal to 11 US cents today.

That's quite a jump from November when one kwacha was equal to just seven US cents.

But that was an all time low.

Go back a year to last April and one kwacha was equal to 13 US cents. 

And then it was even on a downward trend.

Go back to January 2013 and one kwacha would get you 19 US cents.

A case has been filed with Kenya's High Court to decriminalise gay sex, the Reuters news agency is reporting.

It says that Eric Gitari, from the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, argues that the ban on gay sex violates the constitutional rights to equality, dignity and privacy. 

His petition said: "Those laws degrade the inherent dignity of affected individuals by outlawing their most private and intimate means of self-expression."

A gay sex conviction carries a 14 year jail sentence.

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The charitable foundation set up by Ivory Coast footballer Didier Drogba has come under fire following a report in a UK newspaper that is has misspent donations.

The BBC's Tamasin Ford explained in the 12:14 post that people at the Drogba Foundation in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan said they were angry about not being consulted before the story was published.

Watch her report here inside the foundation here:

Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi has warned against any foreign military intervention in neighbouring Libya. 

In a BBC interview, Mr Essebsi said such an operation would risk dividing the country. 

His remarks come against a background of concern in the West at the extent to which the Islamic State group has managed to establish itself in Libya amid the chaos of the civil war there. 

The Nato military alliance has reportedly been drawing up plans to deploy several thousand troops if invited to do so by a new, UN-backed Libyan government. 

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Patience Atuhaire
BBC Africa, Kampala

Uganda's permanent secretary at the health ministry, Asuman Lukwago, said that an arrangement has been reached with the Aga Khan Hospital in Kenya, so that an estimated 400 cancer patients - out of 17,000 - can be sent for radiotherapy treatment, at the government's expense.

This comes after the country's main radiotherapy machine is now broken beyond repair, and the cancer unit in the capital, Kampala, has to upgrade the building before a new machine can be installed.

He said the patients will be assessed according to their need, and whether other treatments have been exhausted.

Image source, UCI

You can read more on BBC News Online about the impact that the failure of the machine is having

Sammy Maina
BBC Monitoring, Nairobi

Rwandan genocide suspect Leon Mugesera has been sentenced to life in jail, Rwandan newspaper New Times is reporting in a series of tweets.

Mugesera fled to Canada after the 1994 genocide but was deported in 2012 after a long legal battle to face charges in Rwanda of inciting genocide and crimes against humanity, stemming from an incendiary anti-Tutsi speech he gave in 1992.

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Gabon wants to rejoin the the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) according to The Africa Report magazine, external.

The site says it got the information from two Opec officials but that Gabonese officials refused to comment.

Gabon joined Opec in 1975 and left in 1995 over the group's refusal to grant its request for reduced annual contributions in line with the country's small production, 

If it returns, Gabon would be the smallest producer in Opec.

In Zimbabwe you can meet Laughter, Welcome, Bigboy, Earnmore, Lovemore Kissmore and Tellmore - people there love giving their children descriptive names.

But what's behind the names?

As part of the BBC's Identity season Steve Vickers talks to some Zimbabweans about what they're called:

We wrote in our 11:17 post that people are paying tribute to the Malian photographer Malick Sidibe yesterday.

We've been looking through his back catalogue.

Here are some photographs we'd like to share:

Image source, Malick Sidibe/courtesy Magnin-A

Mr Sidibe became famous around the world after holding his first exhibition in France.

Image source, Malick Sidibe/courtesy Magnin-A

In many of his portraits people showed off their prized processions.

Image source, Malick Sidibe/courtesy Magnin-A

The BBC's Peter Njoroge in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, has alerted us to the most surprising career change we have heard of for a while.

Gilad Millo is a former Israel diplomat who worked in Kenya and Los Angeles before leaving Israel’s Foreign Ministry in 2008.

He settled in Nairobi and our reporter says he is now a household name in Kenya as a singer.

If that is not surprising enough, add the fact that he sings in Swahili. 

Here are two of his songs: The first, Unajua, means "you know" and the second, Sema Milele, means "say forever".

Egyptian police have fired tear gas at dozens of protesters in the capital, Cairo, who rallied against a controversial deal to hand two islands in the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia.

Outside the Journalists' Syndicate in central Cairo, about 200 protesters chanted "down with military rule", the signature slogan of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. 

The deal to hand over two islands in the Straits of Tiran, signed during a visit by Saudi Arabia's King Salman to Cairo last week, has provoked a storm of criticism against Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.   

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A huge recent surge in migrants arriving in Italy by sea is set to continue, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has warned.

Nearly 6,000 have arrived since Tuesday alone, it says.

In the week to 13 April, arrivals in Italy were 173% higher, external than the previous week, while arrivals in Greece were 76% lower.

Officials in Libya say they fear the closure of the migrant route through Greece is leading to the surge.

Migrants who spoke to IOM staff in Italy all said they had crossed from Libya.

"Many of them were from sub-Saharan Africa, and we have noticed an increase in numbers from the Horn of Africa, particularly Eritreans," the IOM's Federico Soda said in the statement.  

Image source, Reuters

Read more from BBC News Online.

The UN's refugee agency is going to move 10,000 Mozambicans who have fled over the border to Malawi, Reuters news agency reports quoting a UN statement.

They've been trying to escape renewed violence between Renamo rebels and government forces - but the government has denied that it is involved in the fighting.

The UNHCR says the refugees will be taken to better facilities in Malawi.

Image source, Reuters