Nigeria's Super Eagles are looking for a permanent coach, but despite recent rumours, it looks like it definitely won't be ex-Queens Park Rangers and Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp, as our BBC Africa Sports reporter tweets:

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Nick Cavell
BBC Africa Sport

Egypt's Nour El Sherbini booked her place in tomorrow's final of the delayed 2015 Women's World Squash Championship in Malaysia, easily beating compatriot Nouran Gohar 3-0 (11-5, 11-5, 11-5) in an all Egyptian semi-final.

El Sherbini will now face top seed Laura Massaro of England, who beat Raneem El Welily, also of Egypt, in today's other semi-final.

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An amateur diver believes he’s found what could be an ancient city off the coast of Tanzania, reports local newspaper the Dar Post:

Alan Sutton said in his diving blog, external that he was in a helicopter on his way to Mafia island when he “spotted an unusually shaped formation in the water”. 

He went back to the site at low tide and saw 2 miles (3.5km) of long ruins. He describes them as thousands of square and oblong blocks resembling sand stone.

If they are indeed sandstone the logistics of getting it there would have been “formidable”, he speculates.

He estimates that the ruins are at least 550 years old.

This is based on the size of the porites coral on the walls – some are 2.5 metres in width and he says they grow at 4.5 mm a year.

Kenya is preparing to burn more than 100 tonnes of ivory on Saturday, as it hosts a high-profile summit focusing on how to save elephants from extinction.

The amount is equivalent to nearly the entire stock of ivory confiscated by Kenya, amounting to the tusks of more than 6,700 elephants.

The BBC's Africa correspondent Alastair Leithead, who has spent the past two months carrying out a special investigation into the illegal ivory trade, has been tweeting from the scene of tomorrow's burning:

Read more: The War on Elephants (special report)

You can watch Alastair's Facebook Live video discussion from the burn site here, external

Karen Allen
BBC Southern Africa correspondent, Johannesburg

President Jacob Zuma is one step closer to having nearly 800 corruption charges reinstated against him, after the high court judge said that a move to withdraw the charges surrounding a multi-billion dollar arms deal, was irrational. 

It follows the decision in 2009 to drop corruption and racketeering charges against Mr Zuma just before he was sworn in as president because of claims that the decision to charge him was politically motivated. 

The judgement is a damning indictment of the prosecuting authorities back in 2009 and leaves the door open for President Jacob Zuma to face fresh battles in court over his integrity, just at a time when his political survival is being tested to the full.

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Central to the original dropping of the case were the so called spy tapes, secretly recorded conversations between South Africa's spy chief and the former top prosecutor, in which it's alleged they planned to block Mr Zuma's ascent to become South Africa's president. 

Today's move now means that the National Prosecuting Authority will have to decide whether to reopen the case against President Zuma. 

Mmusi Maimane, the leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance, which asked for the dropping of the charges to be reviewed, said it was an important case for democracy and showed that no one was above the law. 

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A Nigerian transgender woman says she tried to kill herself twice because of the pressure in her home country. 

Miss saHHara moved to the UK about 12 years ago. 

Learn more about the BBC's Identity season or join the discussion on Twitter using the hashtag #BBCIdentity.

In delivering his ruling that the corruption charges against South Africa's President Jacob Zuma should not have been dropped, Judge Aubrey Ledwaba said he should now face the charges.

He was commenting on prosecutor Mokotedi Mpshe's decision to withdraw the charges saying there had been "political interference" in the case and Mr Zuma would be denied a fair trial.

This was based on tapes of phone conversations which it was alleged showed the head of the corruption busting Scorpions unit Leonard McCarthy trying to influence the timing of the case. 

The judge said:

It is now up to the National Prosecuting Authority to decide on whether to reinstate the charges.

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More than 30 lions rescued from circuses in Colombia and Peru are to be flown to a sanctuary in South Africa.

The group organising the return, Animal Defenders International (ADI), says it will be the largest ever airlift of lions.

The US-based group says almost all of the animals have been mutilated in captivity. Some are declawed and have broken teeth, and one has lost an eye.

In South Africa, the lions will be released at the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary, the organisers say.

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The office of South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has now published a statement, external on the high court ruling that at decision to drop corruption charges against the president should be reviewed:

Members of South Sudan's newly formed government of national unity (see earlier post at 09:23), which it's hoped will help end more than two years of civil war,  have been posing for photographs in the capital, Juba, this morning. 

President Salva Kiir can be seen sitting in the middle, with his newly appointed First Vice-President Riek Machar beside him in the red tie. 

Mr Machar has been vice-president once before, but was sacked in July 2013. He fled Juba in December that year at the start of the civil war.

South Africa's governing ANC has stressed that today's high court ruling "did not deal with the merits of any allegations against President [Jacob] Zuma".

A judge ruled this morning that a 2009 decision by the national prosecutor to drop corruption charges against the president should be reviewed.

In a statement the ANC added that the court did not make "any finding declaring guilt on any matter".

It goes on: "The ANC has consistently supported the legal maxim that justice delayed is justice denied... [and] is pleased that it now appears closer to a resolution".

The Associate Editor of South Africa's Daily Maverick has been tweeting the reaction of the presidency to the high court ruling that could lead to corruption charges against him being reinstated:

South Africa's governing ANC has reacted to today's judgement that paves the way for corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma to be reinstated, Reuters news agency reports.

It quotes the ANC as saying that the judgement has not dented the image of the party ahead of August's local elections.

The corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma that now could be reinstated relate to a 1999 multi-million dollar arms deal by the South African government, when he was deputy president.

The charges against Mr Zuma were dropped in 2009 before he became president.

But last week the president made public the finding of a commission of inquiry set up to look at the allegations.

He announced that it found no evidence against any government officials of the time.

He said money had been paid for consultancy services "and nothing else".

The Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari says he is very concerned, external that nearly two-thirds of the country's 36 states are unable to pay their workers' salaries despite receiving a bailout from the federal government. 

Mr Buhari said he would try to make more money available, but warned the federal government was also facing financial difficulties. 

Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer, has been hit hard by the global slump in prices.

Image source, State House

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Former leader of South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) Helen Zille has been tweeting her reaction to the decision by the high court that paves the way for corruption charges against the president to be reinstated:

It was the DA which brought the case to review the prosecutor's decision to drop the charges to court.

The Leader of South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance party, which bought the case in the high court, has been reacting to this morning's ruling. 

Mmusi Maimane called it "a great victory for the rule of law", saying: "ultimately we believe that Jacob Zuma must face prosecution."

Here's an excerpt from the ruling by a South African High Court judge, which has opened the way for the reinstatement of corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma, which were dropped in 2009:

The case focussed on why the prosecutor changed his mind.

Today's case at the Pretoria High Court relates to corruption charges brought against Jacob Zuma over a multi-million dollar arms deal made in 1999 - before Mr Zuma became president.

The charges were dropped in 2009 when the chief prosecutor Mokotedi Mpshe said phone-tap evidence suggested political interference in the investigation.

Mr Zuma then went on to become president.

The main opposition Democratic Alliance brought the case to have the prosecutor's decision reviewed.

This was after it had got hold of the tape recordings - now known as the "spy tapes".

Mr Zuma has always denied allegations of graft.

Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Johannesburg

The judge has finished reading his ruling in the case on whether corruption charges should have been dropped against South Africa's President Jacob Zuma.

His ruling opens the door for the charges to be reinstated. 

The decision on whether to reinstate them rests with the the National Prosecuting Authority.