Liverpool-born Tony Bellew describes his Congolese opponent Ilunga Makabu as the "most avoided and dangerous cruiserweight in world boxing", ahead of their bout for the vacant WBC cruiserweight title at Goodison Park on Sunday.  

In Creed, the most recent film in the Rocky series, Tony Bellew played the main opponent of the character Adonis Johnson, who has brought Rocky Balboa out of retirement to train him.

The final fight in the Hollywood film also takes place at the Everton football stadium.

Makabu, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, hasn't lost since his first professional fight eight years ago and has 18 knockouts from 19 wins. But the Goodison factor will surely help Bellew.    

Read more: Tony Bellew on Rocky, Sylvester Stallone and life as an actor

Cameroonian inventor Arthur Zang has won a £25,000 ($37,000) prize for his device which does heart examinations.

The Cardiopad is a tablet computer which takes a reading and sends it to a heart specialist.

It allows health workers to give heart examinations and send the results to heart specialists far away.

BBC Africa's Mamadou Moussa Ba says there are just 50 cardiologists in Cameroon, which has a population of 20 million people.

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There's currently a break in the sentencing hearing in Uganda's capital, Kampala, for the eight men convicted in connection with the 2010 bombing in the city that killed 74 people.

One has been sentenced so far - the only one of the eight not to be found guilty of terrorism and murder.

Muzafar Luyima, who was found guilty of being an "accessory to terrorism after the fact", has been sentenced to a year of doing community service two days a week. 

Nearly 2,000 Zambians have been given the go-ahead by a British judge to have their case against UK-based mining company Vedanta head in a London court, law firm Leigh Day , externalsays in a statement

The case involves allegations of environmental pollution.

Vedanta and its Zambian subsidiary Konkola Copper Mines, wanted the case heard in Zambia.

Abdullahi Yusuf Osman
BBC Monitoring, Nairobi

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Donkey-cart owners in Kenya's north-eastern town of Wajir have been instructed by the local government to attach "some form of diaper" to collect their animals' faeces, in order to protect the town's newly laid Tarmac roads.

In a statement published yesterday (and shared on Twitter below), it said:

It continues:

Donkey cart operators have already complied with the directive.

Residents have been sharing photos of donkeys with "collecting bags" on social media.

South Africans on Twitter have been discussing a decision by the national broadcaster, the SABC, to stop showing images of people destroying public property.

It comes after a series of protests during which schools and clinics have been attacked and burnt.

The SABC said in a statement that it didn't want to help protesters "push their agenda that seeks media attention".

Some are complaining that this decision smacks of censorship:

But some have come to the defence of the broadcaster:

Image source, Reuters

At the sentencing hearing in Uganda's capital, Kampala, for the eight men convicted of involvement in the 2010 bombing that killed 74 people, the defence is currently making the case for leniency, reports the BBC's Patience Atuhaire from the court.

The lawyer says that most of the convicted were very vulnerable when they were recruited by Somalia-based Islamist militant group al-Shabab in 2009.

He is also arguing that the men are all capable of being reformed.

Search teams looking for the flight recorders of the crashed EgyptAir plane have picked up a radio signal from an emergency locator transmitter, Egyptian investigators say.

This could help to narrow the search area for the "black boxes" to a 5km (3 mile) radius in the Mediterranean Sea.

A deep-water operation will start in the coming days, French officials said.

All 66 people on board Flight MS804 were killed when the plane disappeared not far from its destination on 19 May.

The Airbus A320 was flying overnight from Paris to Cairo when it vanished from Greek and Egyptian radar screens, apparently without having sent a distress call.

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The eight men found guilty yesterday of involvement in the 2010 bomb attack in Uganda's capital, Kampala, are now listening to the sentencing proceedings.

The BBC's Patience Atuhaire in court photographed some of the guilty men - including the mastermind Isa Ahmed Luyima (second from the left).

She reports that the prosecution is making its case for the maximum sentence during its final submissions: 

The men could be sentenced to death. But no civilian has been hanged in Uganda since 1999.

Vincent Enyeama has extended his deal with French club Lille by two years, tying the former Nigeria international goalkeeper to the club until 2019.

He has been Lille's first choice keeper since 2013 and has made 130 appearances for the club in all competitions.

The 33-year-old, whose previous deal ran until next year, says he is very settled at Stade Pierre-Mauroy.

"I am very happy to extend my contract with Lille, a club I call home," Enyeama told BBC Sport.

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Experts following the disappearance of MH370 say it is likely that a new piece of debris found on a Mozambique beach came from the missing plane.

A reader contacted the BBC on Thursday to say he recently found the fragment on the Macaneta peninsula.

The authorities have been notified. The piece must be examined by the official investigation team in Australia.

Experts say it is consistent with where previous pieces of debris from the missing plane have been found.

The reader took two photographs of the item on 22 May, and sent them to the BBC after reading a story on Thursday about other debris finds in the region.  

Supporters of Guinea-Bissau's governing party have attacked the presidential palace, in protest at the appointment of a new prime minister. 

About 100 people burnt tyres and threw stones. 

Police fired tear gas and several people are reported to have been hurt. 

The protesters complained that President Jose Mario Vaz had acted unconstitutionally by naming Baciro Dja as prime minister. 

They said the governing party should have made the choice. 

President Vaz is himself a member of the party, but has been in dispute with it since sacking a previous prime minister last year. 

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A washing detergent advert shown on Chinese television and in cinemas, according to Shanghai List website, external, has sparked a huge reaction.

It starts off with a woman doing her laundry - so far, so normal.

Then a black man splattered with paint approaches her, they embrace, but she then quickly stuffs him in the washing machine.

After the washing cycle a Chinese man then emerges.

The advert has been condemned as racist in social media posts outside of China.

The BBC’s Nkem Ifejika is hosting a Facebook Live video chat with Mannir Dan Ali from the Daily Trust Nigerian newspaper, to discuss one year since President Muhammadu Buhari took office.

The president promised to defeat Boko Haram and he pledged to rid the country of corruption.   

Follow the live stream from the capital Abuja here, external and post your questions in the comments section. 

Buhari’s first year: Five ways Nigeria has changed

And read Mannir's recent piece: How to rebuild Nigeria after Boko Haram 

Fourteen-year-old Ghanaian Afua Ansah achieved her country's highest ever placing in the US national spelling competition - known as the Spelling Bee.

She got through to the final 45 contestants, but was knocked out after misspelling "Liechtenstein".

Before the final round Afua said that she felt a "really heavy weight on my shoulders", the competition's blog reports, external.

Her sponsor Eugenia Tachie-Menson is quoted as saying:

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The competition was won by 11-year-old Nihar Janga and 13-year-old Jairam Hathwar.

India's foreign ministry says it is looking into an alleged attack on a Nigerian student by a local man in the southern city of Hyderabad.

Police said 26-year-old Bamilola Kazim was allegedly assaulted by Mohammed Gafoor after a row on Wednesday

Mr Kazim was treated for wounds at a local hospital and released.

Last week a student from the Democratic Republic of Congo was beaten to death by a group of Indian men after an argument in Delhi.

Image source, Getty Images

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The eight men convicted yesterday in connection with the 2010 bomb attack that killed 74 people in the Uganda capital, Kampala, are at the country's High Court for the sentencing.

The BBC reporter there captured the moment they arrived for the hearing:

Seven of the men were found guilty on terror charges, the eighth was guilty of a lesser charge of being an accessory to the bomb plot.

Five were acquitted on all charges on Thursday.

Ivory Coast's former first lady Simone Gbagbo has had her appeal against a 20-year prison sentence rejected by the country's supreme court. 

The jail term was handed down last year for Mrs Gbagbo's role in the violence which followed the refusal of her husband, Laurent, to accept defeat in the presidential election of 2010. 

Mr Gbagbo himself is currently on trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, accused of war crimes linked to the unrest, in which more than 3,000 people were killed. 

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