That's all from the BBC Africa Live page 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 this picture taken by Ley Uwera and posted on Instagram, external of a young woman preparing lunch in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Kenya's national police service has posted photos and video showing the arrival of officers in the capital, Nairobi, who it says were injured in opposition protests on Monday (see earlier post at 17:24).

Local media are reporting that 11 officers were flown to Nairobi this evening, 10 from Siaya, where two people were reported to have died, and one from the western city of Kisumu, which saw one death on Monday. 

Kenya's Star newspaper gave some extra detail on the injuries:

"The officers were hurt on their hands, head while some suffered broken Iimbs as protesters engaged them in running battles."

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Cameroon forward Gaelle Enganamouit (FC Rosengard, Sweden), 23, has lost out to Scotland midfielder Kim Little in the vote to be named BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2016.

Little, who plays for Seattle Reign in the USA, topped a supporters' poll to become the second winner of the BBC World Service award.

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She beat a five-woman shortlist of Gaelle Enganamouit (FC Rosengard, Sweden), Amandine Henry (Olympique Lyonnais), Carli Lloyd (Houston Dash) and Becky Sauerbrunn (FC Kansas City).

Tamasin Ford
BBC Africa, Abidjan

It's the start of the rainy season here in Ivory Coast and the rain is already playing havoc with some of the country's pot-holed roads. 

Vehicles are getting damaged and some of the transport lorries are getting into trouble.

I spotted this broken-down truck on the outskirts of San Pedro, in the west of the country.

The driver used a pile of bricks to precariously hold up the logs.

Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom has formally launched his bid to become the first African head of the World Health Organization (WHO).

He hopes to replace Margaret Chan when she steps down in May next year.

Image source, Reuters

Dr Tedros addressed the media at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, AFP news agency reports:   

His candidacy is backed by the African Union and he has appealed for the support of all African countries.

Image source, EPA

Kenya's police watchdog says it has launched an investigation into "police brutality" during Monday's opposition protests, in which three people are reported to have died (see earlier post at 10:22).  

The country's Independent Police Oversight Authority (IPOA), issued a statement offering its sympathies to both civilians and police injured in yesterday's violence. 

Here are some key quotes, with the full statement:

Image source, AFP

Image source, IPOA

Several police officers who were reportedly injured in Monday's riots in the Western city of Kisumu have been flown to the capital Nairobi to receive treatment.

Tulanana Bohela
BBC Africa, Dar es Salaam

Rescue teams in Tanzania are searching for 12 people who have gone missing after a Tanzanian boat sunk on Lake Nyasa on its way to Malawi on Saturday.

The whereabouts of the boat are unknown. 

Regional police commander Zuberi Mwombeji said:

Many passenger boats that sail across Lake Nyasa lack life jackets and are not considered seaworthy.  

The BBC's Nomsa Maseko has been filming a report on ballet classes being given to young children in the Soweto suburb of South Africa's main city, Johannesburg. 

It's part of a wider attempt to boost the number of black dancers on the global ballet scene by training teachers.

The children are being taught in the Cuban style of ballet

Nomsa sent through some lovely shots to share with you before the full piece arrives:

More on South African ballet

The daughter of anti-apartheid figure Archbishop Desmond Tutu has had to give up being an Anglican priest after she married a woman.

In an email to the AFP news agency Mpho Tutu-van Furth said that as the church does not recognise gay marriage she was told her license would be revoked, so she decided to return it.

She wrote to AFP that her father was "sad but not surprised" at the news.

Archbishop Tutu has supported same-sex marriage and it was legalised in South Africa in 2006.

Image source, AFP

South Africa's government has spent more than $500,000 over the last three years on supplying vehicles to protect the four wives of President Jacob Zuma, it says. 

In a written response, external to a parliamentary question from an opposition MP,  Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko listed the 11 cars that were bought since 2013.

They include four Range Rovers and two Land Rovers.

South Africa's PoliticsWeb, external site estimates that the money could have funded, among other things:

• 116 university students for a year 
•  61 police officers for a year
• 1,315 jobs for a year on the country's public works programme

Image source, AFP

Uganda's government has made a formal complaint to the Democratic Republic of Congo after four Ugandan police officers were shot dead on Lake Albert, which straddles the border of the two countries, the AFP news agency reports.

The four men were killed as they were investigating illegal fishing activities on the lake.

AFP quotes foreign affairs minister Henry Okello Oryem saying that "the four police officers were on official duty...  within the territorial sphere of Uganda.

"They were killed in line of duty and their bodies were taken by the DR Congo authorities. 

"We have made it clear, in future these incidents may compel Uganda to take self-defence measures including hot pursuit of those responsible."

After five days of picking, crushing, roasting, grinding and cooking, 65-year-old Ghanaian Rebecca Atornyege earns eight cedis ($2; £1.40) from selling her shea butter at the market.  

The fruits of her hard work could find its way into expensive cosmetics or as a cocoa substitute.

What she earns barely pays for food for her family.

Image source, AFP

As the BBC's Akwasi Sarpong found when he visited Anateem in Ghana's far north the money from shea butter is a major source of income.

And it's considered women's work.

Read more about what Akwasi discovered.

The aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is reporting a "deadly outbreak of malaria" in Haut-Uele, north-east Democratic Republic of Congo.

MSF's Charlotte Morris told the BBC in an email that the agency's medics are seeing five times the normal number of people at the Pawa general hospital.

The numbers of people arriving with malaria have doubled every week for the last three weeks, she added.

Last Monday 141 children were admitted overnight to the hospital, which has capacity for 22 children. 

This means that people are sleeping on the floor and in corridors. 

MSF said that a big problem is "lack of access to medicine in the area, largely because it’s too expensive".

Naziru Mikailu
BBC News, Kano, Nigeria

The tomato pest that has ravaged most farms in north-western and central Nigeria is severely affecting people's lives in every part of the country (see 10.32 entry). 

It is an essential ingredient in many meals, but the tomato scarcity has led to the price increasing by nearly 400% in the last three months, taking them out of the reach of many people. 

This comes at a difficult time, with the price of several imported food items having already gone up significantly because of Nigeria's weak currency.

It is also a severe blow to President Muhammadu Buhari’s efforts of encouraging more people to return to commercial farming as part of the government's plans to diversify Africa's largest economy away from oil. 

Image source, AFP

We posted about the row over the retouching of images of South African celebrity Lerato Kganyago (see 11.48 entry) used on the cover and inside True Love magazine.

She has been complaining that they changed the way she looked.

And on Twitter she's launched a broadside at the magazine:

And she's been retweeting messages of support:

The chief forensic officer in Egypt says that reports that an EgyptAir plane was brought down by an explosion last week are mere assumptions. 

Hesham Abdelhamid is quoted by the state news agency as denying that the initial examination of human remains pointed towards an explosion. 

One of his team had earlier told journalists that body parts retrieved so far were in such small pieces it was logical to conclude there had been a blast, though he had added that no traces of explosives had yet been found. 

All 66 people on board the airliner were killed when the plane crashed early on Thursday.

Odeo Sirari
BBC Africa, Nairobi

Twenty-eight Kenyan police officers injured during opposition protests in the western city of Kisumu on Monday are expected to arrive at Wilson Airport in the capital, Nairobi, later this afternoon, government spokesman Eric Kiraithe had told a media briefing.

The officers are being flown in for treatment, he added.

Image source, AFP

Read more: Kenya opposition protests turn deadly

Eritreans are celebrating 25 years of independence from the far larger Ethiopia. The BBC's Mary Harper has gained rare access to Eritrea, and visited an exhibition about how it took on a much better-equipped army. Watch the video below:

Ferdinand Omondi
BBC Africa, Mombasa

On a visit to a certified clean water depot in Mombasa, salesman Jamil Hussein tells me it is vital for customers to check sure they're getting the real deal when they buy bottled water. 

He says people should not be swayed by cheap prices and that they should check which company bottles the water they drink, and whether it is licensed or not. 

It follows a scandal earlier this month over water being sold by unlicensed companies, which was found to be contaminated by faecal bacteria.   

Kenyan authorities shut down six of the unlicensed companies.

A local investigation showed that several of the companies were bottling untreated tap water and borehole water. 

The local government in this coastal city has banned the distribution of some water brands and officers patrol areas where bottled water is commonly sold, especially bus stations and stops.

Kenya has more than 600 licensed water-bottling companies, but there are fears that hundreds more may be operating illegally. 

The UN's human rights body (UNHCHR) has said it is "concerned by the increasing violence surrounding the weekly protests" in Kenya.

Kenya police quoted by the AFP news agency say three people died as protesters and police clashed in different parts of the country on Monday.

In a statement, the UNHCHR called on authorities to "respect the right to assemble peacefully", and also on the demonstrators to remain peaceful. 

It was the fourth week of demonstrations called by the opposition over the make-up of the electoral commission.

Kenya's deputy president has also got involved in the discussion in a response to a tweet from the US ambassador to Kenya.