Beyonce released a surprise new visual album, Lemonade, over the weekend.

The talk has all been about what the lyrics reveal may or may not reveal about her marriage to Jay-Z.

But one thing many critics have picked up is the strong influence of African traditions and contemporary artists throughout the album. 

Naila Keleta-Mae, an academic who has taught a course on Beyonce's work at Canada's University of Waterloo, has been speaking to BBC Newsday's Bola Mosuro about the references to black culture:

Read more: The British-Somali poet behind Beyonce's Lemonade

Somali sprinter Samia Yusuf Omar competed in the 200m event at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 despite having almost no formal training.

She then tried to make it to London for the 2012 games, but she died tried to make the dangerous crossing used by migrants from Libya across the Mediterranean.

The UN refugee agency has been tweeting about a graphic novel, external that has recently been published about Samia’s life and Olympic ambitions.

A Libyan tanker loaded with 650,000 barrels of oil has been left stranded in the Mediterranean after Malta refused it entry, the Middle East Eye news site reports, external.

The UN has blacklisted the Indian-flagged tanker with its shipment of crude oil which one of Libya’s rival governments – the one based in Tobruk - was attempting to sell to a firm based in the United Arab Emirates.

Leaders of a new UN-backed unity government in Libya are trying to impose their authority on the country.

But not everyone in the two other rival administrations – and their powerful militia backers – support their attempt.

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A woman accusing a former Sunderland and Cape Verde international of rape went to bed with two other players just a day before his trial began, a jury in the UK has heard.

Mobile phone footage showing the woman, the footballers and another woman in bed on Saturday night has been played to jurors at Hull Crown Court in the UK.

Cabral, whose real name is Adilson Tavares Varela, is accused of raping the 21-year-old at his flat in Gateshead in January 2015.

He denies two counts of rape.

Mr Varela's barrister Kitty Taylor asked the woman: "What on earth were you thinking?

"Preparing for this event by going out on Saturday night and ending up in bed with two professional footballers in the early hours of the morning?" she asked.

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Read the full BBC Sport story

Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Johannesburg

Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has been honoured in South Africa for her role in the struggle against white minority rule.

She has been given the Order of Luthuli in silver for her “excellent contribution to the fight for the liberation of the people of South Africa”.  

She is credited for keeping the African National Congress (ANC) party alive while Mr Mandela was serving time in prison.  

President Jacob Zuma conferred the national orders in the capital, Pretoria, but Ms Madikizela-Mandela wasn't at the ceremony as she is recovering from back surgery.

One of her granddaughters accepted the award on her behalf.

Mr Mandela divorced Ms Madikizela-Mandela after a 38-year marriage. 

They were South Africa's most celebrated political couple until their marriage collapsed unexpectedly, some six years after his release in 1990, following 27 years in prison for fighting apartheid. 

Affectionately referred to as the "mother of the nation", she is still held in high regard by many South Africans.

She was at Mr Mandela's bedside in the months before his death in 2013.

Some were surprised when he left her out of his will.

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Instead of focusing on international conflicts and crises closer to home, the UN is calling for the world's media to also practise "constructive journalism", focusing on solutions and positive alternatives to what can sometimes feel like a relentless cycle of doom and gloom.  

Newsday's Bola Mosuro spoke to Tina Rosenberg, the co-founder of Solutions Journalism Network, to find out more about this different approach:

You can listen to the full interview below:

Can you think of examples where journalists could report more on the solutions to problems, rather than just the problems alone? 

Email us on africalive@bbc.co.uk 

Following on the heels of the World Bank, the UK has now announced that it is delaying all financial aid payments to Mozambique following the discovery of $1.4bn (£960m) in undisclosed debt (see 10:58 post).

“This appears to be a serious breach of trust, so we are working closely with other international partners to establish the truth and coordinate an appropriate response,” the UK’s foreign aid ministry Dfid said in a statement.

"The UK follows strict rules and procedures when providing aid and our priority continues to be supporting the people of Mozambique to lift themselves out of poverty and build a more secure and prosperous country.”

The IMF, which discovered the undisclosed debt, is now investigating the issue.

The government has admitted that it acted as guarantor for two multi-million dollar loans to two firms with connections to the state.

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“Yeah, apparently the phonetics are not included on the teleprompter,” quipped, external White House press secretary Josh Earnest when asked about US politician Donald Trump’s mispronunciation of Tanzania.

The frontrunner for the Republican candidacy for president had just detailed his foreign policy in a speech last night.

He has been roundly mocked for the mistake.

A Tanzanian journalist has tweeted a clip his remark - relating to the 1998 terror attacks on US embassies in East Africa - and makes a surprising observation:

During his speech, external, he also spoke about so-called Islamic State, also known as Isis. The group has a growing presence in Libya:

Read the BBC News story for more on Donald Trump's foreign policy speech.

As the body of music legend Papa Wemba arrived at the airport in Kinshasa, the capital of DR Congo, earlier today, hundreds of people were waiting outside the airport to see the coffin. 

BBC Swahili reporter Mbelechi Msoshi at the scene sent this photo of emotional mourners:

BBC Afrique's Poly Muzalia from Kinshasa photographed the coffin as it was taken through the airport, with a wreath of blue flowers that reads "Rest in perfect, eternal peace". 

Ishaq Khalid
BBC Hausa, Bauchi

Roadside fuel sellers, known as “black marketers” in Nigeria, have been reacting to a directive by the country's police chief that they will be arrested and prosecuted.

People who sell petrol in jerry cans were contributing to the country's chronic fuel shortage, Solomon Arase said.

It was also dangerous to carry fuel in jerry cans and other plastic containers, he said.

However, some black market dealers on the streets of Bauchi, here in northern Nigeria, have told me that they are not responsible for crisis, saying the authorities are using them as "scapegoats".

High unemployment means that selling fuel is their only means of survival, they say.

Their business is thriving because they spend the time in queues to get the little fuel there is from petrol stations.

Motorists are urging the government to address the root causes of the scarcity such as dealing with the major oil dealers, who have the licences to import the fuel, and revamping the refineries.

Naziru Mikailu
BBC News

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Clashes between Fulani herders and farmers in Nigeria have been responsible for some of the most deadly violence in Nigeria in recent years - second only to the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency.

President Muhammadu Buhari has now promised a crackdown (see 09:31 post).

Disagreements over the use of essential resources such as farmland, grazing areas and water between herdsmen and local farmers are the major source of the crisis.

But who are the ethnic Fulanis?

They are are believed to be largest semi-nomadic group in the world and are mainly based in West and Central Africa.

In Nigeria, there are two types: The semi-nomadic herders and those who live in the city.

Unlike the more integrated city dwellers, the nomadic groups spend most of their lives in the bush and are the ones largely involved in these clashes.

They herd their animals across vast dry hinterlands, something that often puts them at odds with many communities, especially farmers.

In Nigeria, they are associated with and considered to be part of the Muslim-dominated Hausa ethnic group because they share the same religion and to some extent language, and have been living alongside one another for a very long time.

But that doesn't mean Hausa people are not caught up in the violence. 

Piers Edwards
BBC Africa Sport

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The call for better management of sport is heard across Africa - often as a lament, more regularly as an outburst of barely contained frustration.

In football, former Ajax and Juventus defender Sunday Oliseh recently quit as Nigeria's national football coach, citing contractual violations and lack of support from his local federation.

Months earlier, Zimbabwe were disqualified from the 2018 World Cup qualifying tournament after its football association failed to pay a former national coach.

In athletics, Kenya only recently averted the threat of disqualification from the 2016 Olympic Games because of its previously long-standing failure to implement robust drugs-testing procedures - nearly 40 athletes have failed tests in the last four years.

Read my full piece here.

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The Africa Debate on the BBC World Service at 19:00 GMT on Friday 29 April 2016 will be asking: Is there a failure of leadership in African sport?

Are sportsmen and women in your country given the support they need to be the best? Get in touch on the BBC Africa Facebook Page or send us an email on africalive@bbc.co.uk.

The World Bank is putting a hold on new development support for Mozambique after the government was shown to have hidden some $1.4bn (£960m) in debt, the AFP news agency is reporting.

It was waiting for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which suspended aid last week, to finish its investigation into the undisclosed borrowing, it says.

The government says most of the previously undisclosed debt was related to it acting as a guarantor for two loans taken out by quasi state-run companies in the maritime industry.

While the government had not specifically borrowed the money itself, some experts say that by acting as a guarantor, it technically had taken on the liability, the BBC’s Africa Business Report editor Matthew Davies.

A Human Rights Watch researcher tweets about tension in the capital:

Tomi Oladipo
BBC Africa security correspondent

A cyber security website is reporting that the hacking collective Anonymous has carried out a cyber-attack on Kenya’s foreign ministry servers and stolen a large cache of data.

The attack was conducted under the banner of OpAfrica, an operation launched last year against child abuse, child labour and corruption in the African countries, HackRead reports, external.

The Kenyan government has not confirmed whether there has been a data breach.

HackRead says some of the 1TB of data hacked has been leaked on the “dark web”, a collection of websites that are hidden and highly encrypted, hiding their owners and users.

Anonymous recently breached websites belonging to a Kenyan oil refinery as well as the websites of other state-owned firms. 

Often, server breaches in sub-Saharan Africa involve defacing websites, rather than stealing data but as the people and governments on the continent go increasingly digital there is now more material available to these hackers.

Anonymous works somewhat like a franchise. There are hackers in different countries who use the name too, so it is difficult to tell if the attacks come from abroad or are local.

They claim to be activists carrying out attacks in protest against corruption and injustice.

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South Sudan's new unity government, seen as the next key step in the country's peace process, may be formed today, the local Eye Radio news site reports, external.

It follows the long-awaited return of rebel leader Riek Machar to the capital Juba on Tuesday, where he was sworn in as first vice-president in a government led by President Salva Kiir.

Mr Machar's return already appears to be having an effect, with the US announcing $86m (£59m) in additional humanitarian funding on Wednesday. 

However, it also said it would consider imposing sanctions or an arms embargo if the two leaders dragged their feet in implementing the peace deal, aimed at bringing an end to more than two years of bitter conflict. 

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Read more: South Sudanese want peace - and ice cream

The plane carrying Papa Wemba's body has just landed in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, says the BBC's Poly Muzalia.

The European Union and Nigeria are to discuss a deal to send economic migrants back to Africa’s most populous country, the UK's Financial Times newspaper reports.

Termed a “readmission agreement”, it would probably involve migrants from Nigeria being deported in exchange for EU economic aid, it reports.

It would be the the first major EU return deal with a sub-Saharan African nation. The only existing one is with tiny island nation Cape Verde, the FT says.

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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the chief of defence staff and the inspector general of police to go after the herdsmen who are killing people in several parts of the country.

“Let me start by condemning in strongest terms the attacks by herdsmen in Enugu State on Monday. I deeply sympathise with those who lost their lives as well as those who lost their property,” Nigeria’s Nation paper quotes him as saying.

“I have directed the Chief of Defence Staff and the Inspector – General of Police to secure all communities under attacks by herdsmen and to go after the groups terrorising innocent people all over the country. This government will not allow these attacks to continue.”  

It is suspected that Fulani herdsmen have killed about 50 people and destroyed property including churches in Enugu state, Nigeria’s Guardian reports.

Mr Buhari also urged all Nigerians to remain calm, his spokesman said.

The president said his administration was ready to deploy all required personnel and resources to remove what he described as a new threat to the collective security of the nation.

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Hundreds of people are outside Kinshasa's airport waiting for Papa Wemba body to arrive home in the Democratic Republic of Congo, reports BBC Afrique's Poly Muzalia.

The musician, who is regarded as one of the  pioneers of modern Congolese soukous music, is due to be buried on Tuesday after lying in state in a stadium in the capital on Monday.

Government officials and diplomats will attend a memorial service for Papa Wemba at the airport before the body is taken to a morgue.

For more on the plans, read the BBC News story and DJ Rita Ray's piece on Papa Wemba's musical legacy.

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The body of rumba star Papa Wemba is expected to arrive home in the Democratic Republic of Congo this morning.

Last night in the Ivorian city of Abidjan where the singer collapsed over the weekend, a free all-night concert was held in his memory.

The BBC’s Tamasin Ford says most of the audience were dressed in white as a mark of respect, holding candles.

Papa Wemba's wife and his entire entourage were there.

Mainly Ivorian singers - Magic System, Meiway, Espoir 2000, Zouglou Makers - performed and there were lots of speeches by Ivorian ministers, as well as the Congolese governor of Wemba's town.  

Papa Wemba's daughter also said a prayer on stage.