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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We leave you with this image from our selection of the best pictures of the week.

It shows blind Ugandan boxer Bashir Ramathan, on the right, sparring with Ali, who puts a blindfold on to make things fair.

Image source, AFP

This week, satirist Ikenna Azuike has been worried about the tomato shortage in Nigeria, he's also glad Africans are living longer and he sees that things didn't go so well with the president's limo. Here's Africa in 90 seconds.

Musician and former Beatle Paul McCartney has been talking to the BBC about the time that Fela Kuti accused him of stealing Africa's music.

McCartney travelled to Lagos in 1973 to record Band on the Run with his post-Beatles group Wings.

He told the BBC that when he arrived he learnt of Fela's accusations. So he called him up and invited him to the studio with his large entourage. 

It ended up with them becoming friends and McCartney visiting Fela's legendary club The Shrine.

You can hear him talking about his time in Nigeria from 16.40 into this video.

Police in western Kenya have shot and critically wounded a high school student in Kenya while in pursuit of an escaped convict, local media report.

The secondary school student in Migori town was reportedly shot in the head by the stray bullet while watching a handball match, the Daily Nation reports. , external

The incident sparked protests among local residents, angry at the alleged "trigger-happy" attitude of the local police. 

A relative told The Star newspaper that the girl was alive and receiving treatment in hospital, contradicting earlier reports that she had died from her injuries.

The paper quotes Migori police commander David Kirui as saying: 

A world-famous flower show is not a place where you would expect to see an anti-slavery stand.

But Tanzanian-born Juliet Sargeant has done just that, using her exhibition at the Chelsea Flower Show in London to highlight what campaigners call modern-day slavery, including forced labour and prostitution.

BBC Africa's Dayo Yusuf visited the show to see how Ms Sargeant's garden design expresses her message.

South Africa's left-wing opposition EFF party has said the national broadcaster's decision not to show the destruction of public property during protests (see earlier post) is about protecting the image of the governing ANC, Eyewitness News reports, external.

The EFF, external said the decision amounted to self-censorship by journalists.

Eyewitness News adds that the SABC's chief Hlaudi Motsoeneng said the decision is part of “responsible journalism”., external

“When people see cameras, they start burning property,” he said.

This month, the BBC Africa Debate comes from Lusaka, Zambia.

It's focusing on the huge problem around clean drinking water on the continent, and the dwindling supply due to factors like drought and lack of investment in infrastructure.

Eight of the top 10 countries in the world with the highest percentage of people living without access to safe water are in Africa.

So what are the most innovative ways the continent can tackle these issues that have such an impact on health and livelihoods? 

Join presenters Rebecca Kesby and Akwasi Sarpong at 19:00 GMT on BBC World Service radio, or listen again here and use the hashtag #BBCAfricaDebate, external to have your say. 

One of the survivors of a Mediterranean migrant capsize caught on film has told the BBC that he thought he was going to die.

Mohammed Ali, from Sudan, was one of more than 100 people who fell into the sea on 25 May when their over-crowded boat overturned off the Libyan coast.

James Reynolds spoke to Mohammed in Sicily.

A French naval ship specialising in underwater searches is on its way to help find the flight recorders of an EgyptAir plane that crashed last week.

On Thursday, Egypt's chief investigator said the search had narrowed to about 5km (3.1 miles) in the Mediterranean.

This was based on a signal from the plane's emergency beacon, but officials now say the signal was received on the day of the crash and is not new.

There were 66 people on board when the Airbus A320 crashed on 19 May.

Read more from BBC News Online

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Ahmed Nyondo is the father of two of the men sentenced today for role in the 2010 bomb attacks in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, in which 74 people were killed.

One of his son's, Isa Ahmed Luyima, described as the mastermind behind the attacks, was sentenced to life.

The other, Hassan Huruna Luyima, was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

Mr Nyondo spoke to BBC Africa's Patience Atuhaire:

The campaign group Amnesty International says dozens of government detainees in South Sudan are being held in metal shipping containers, and some have died.

The rights group says the containers are poorly ventilated, and the prisoners, who are accused of having links to rebels, are fed only once or twice a week and are given insufficient drinking water.

It says soldiers also beat the mainly civilian detainees at the site in Gorom, 20km south of the capital, Juba. 

The South Sudanese army has rejected the report, saying Gorom is not a prison but a military training centre.

Image source, AFP

The nine-year-old daughter of a British-Ethiopian activist who is imprisoned in Ethiopia has started legal proceedings against the UK government about the way it has handled the case, Buzzfeed is reporting, external.

Menabe Andargachew is named in the legal papers outlining the case that the government should not rely on due process in Ethiopia for the case to be resolved.

Her father British citizen Andargachew Tsege was seized in 2014 when changing planes in Yemen and forced to go to Ethiopia.

He had been sentenced to death in absentia in 2009 for plotting a coup.

The British government has been in touch with Mr Andargachew but have not asked for his release.

His partner, Yemserach Hailemariam, told the BBC Africa Live page, that he was seen last week in prison by the British Ambassador to Ethiopia.

She said he was physically fine, but was not sure about his mental state.

Image source, Amnesty

Muhammadu Buhari's name is trending on social media in Nigeria, as people give their view on the president's first year in office.

The BBC's Newsday programme has been asking Nigerians in the capital, Abuja, to explain whether they think their new leader has made a difference - with the aid of a whiteboard.

Earlier in Abuja, Newsday's Nkem Ifejika had a Facebook Live discussion with Mannir Dan Ali from the Daily Trust Nigerian Newspaper. You can watch the stream here, external.

For more, read the BBC piece Five ways Nigeria has changed in President Buhari's first year.   

We've been reporting on the five life sentences handed down by a Ugandan court to those behind the 2010 Kampala bomb attack in which 74 people were killed.

The judge has been explaining why he did not give death sentences, which was an option.

Judge Alfonse Owiny-Dollo is quoted by the AFP news agency as saying:  

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta said the country will not go back on its decision to close the Dadaab refugee camp, home to more than 300,000 Somalis.

A statement from his office says that he told UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson that the decision "is not reversible".

“The train has already left the station. It’s now up to those who are interested at seeing the success of the journey to come on board,” he added.

Aid groups and the UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, has expressed concern over the impending closure.

Mr Kenyatta said the repatriation process would be handled carefully.

Patience Atuhaire
BBC Africa, Kampala

The five men sentenced to life for their role in the 2010 Kampala bombings are:

• Isa Ahmed Luyima - described as the mastermind of the attack
• Hussein Hassan Agad
• Idris Magondu
• Habib Suleiman Njoroge
• Muhammed Ali Muhamed.

The two sentenced to 50 years are:

• Suleiman Hajjir Nyamandondo
• Hassan Haruna Luyima  

Five of the seven men found guilty on terror charges in Uganda have been given life sentences, reports the BBC's Patience Atuhaire from Kampala.

The other two were given 50-year sentences.

Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo said he believed the death sentence would not act as a deterrent.

The seven were involved in planning the 2010 bomb attacks in Kampala in which 74 people were killed.

They were trained by the Somalia-based Islamist militant group al-Shabab.

The whereabouts of the five men acquitted on terror charges in Uganda yesterday are unknown, reports the BBC's Patience Atuhaire.

During a break in the sentencing of those found guilty, defence lawyer Caleb Alaka told our reporter that they were released from prison on Thursday evening and are now missing.

Mr Alaka said that they may have been rearrested, but the police have not confirmed this.

The New Vision newspaper, external is reporting that they are now in police custody, quoting a state prosecutor.

Police sources have told our reporter that the five men are being held for their own safety.

Niger's Diffa region is under a state of emergency because of insecurity caused by Boko Haram. But despite the imposition of a dusk to dawn curfew life in Diffa carries on. 

Newsday's Julian Keane is in Diffa town and has been reporting on what life is like under the threat of the Islamist militant group.

Listen to Julian's audio report here

The UK is set to send a Royal Navy warship to the Mediterranean to help tackle arms smuggling in Libya, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.

He told the G7 summit in Japan the UK was ready to take an "active leadership role" in helping Libya deal with people trafficking and the migration crisis.

The UK already has a survey vessel, HMS Enterprise, operating in the area.

Officials are to seek UN approval for the new warship to seize boats taking arms to so-called Islamic State.

Read the full BBC News story 

Image source, AFP

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