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.

A reminder of today's wise words:

Click here to send us your African proverbs.     

And we leave you with this photo from Egypt's capital, Cairo:

Eritrea’s government has been accused by a new UN inquiry of carrying out systematic crimes against humanity (see earlier post), allegations which the government strongly denies.

When the BBC gained rare access to the East African nation for its 25th independence anniversary celebrations, many people said that they did not recognise the version of Eritrea which the media often shows to the world.

We've just done an entry (below) about a joint article South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar wrote in the New York Times about setting up a truth commission to help heal the wounds of the civil war instead of a judicial process.

The proposal has caused some controversy.

But a journalist in the region has just cast doubt on whether Mr Machar was involved writing the article:

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar have proposed that the country should set up a truth commission similar to South Africa to help heal the nation after the civil war.

An amnesty would be offered to those who disclose their crimes.

In a joint article in the New York Times, external, the two men, who were until recently on opposite sides in the civil war, said "we are determined to reconcile our communities and create unity".

They argued that a judicial process "would destabilize efforts to unite our nation by keeping alive anger and hatred among the people of South Sudan".

Human Rights Watch has criticised the proposal as a "self-serving attempt to evade justice".

In last year's peace deal the two men agreed to create a AU-backed court to try war criminals.

The president and vice-president have asked the international community to reconsider this part of the deal.    

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We have been receiving tributes from all over the continent to Stephen Keshi.

From Malawi, Osward Mwale says:

Opeyemmi Ajala in Lagos, Nigeria says thank you:

James Olaoluwa Ezekiel from Nigeria simply says:

The former Nigeria football coach Stephen Keshi who died from a suspected heart attack and died last night, aged 54.  

Sammy Maina
BBC Monitoring, Nairobi

Kenya's opposition Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (Cord) has welcomed the move by President Uhuru Kenyatta to form a special parliamentary panel to spearhead electoral reforms ahead of next year's general election, the privately-owned Citizen TV reports, external.

But at the same time Cord has criticised a ban on demonstrations, reports the AFP news agency.

It said the president has "effectively declared a state of emergency".

The country has been hit by protests, some of which has ended in violence, as Cord have been complaining about the make up of the electoral commission, the IEBC.

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Patience Atuhaire
BBC Africa, Kampala

Uganda Finance Minister Matia Kasaija has said officials could be sacked if they're found to have taken unnecessary trips on government money.

The announcement was part of cost-cutting measures to help fund other parts of government spending.

In parliament today, Mr Kasaija outlined the country's largest ever government budget amounting to around $8bn (£5.5bn) of spending in the next financial year.

He wants to boost spending on infrastructure development, and invest in agriculture, tourism and trade, as well as technology.

But he said that there will be no new taxes which begs the question about how the country going to afford it.

One way is through increased government borrowing. The budget deficit is set to be around $4bn.

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We reported in an earlier post that police in northern Zambia used teargas to disperse over 300 workers at the Dangote cement plant in Ndola this morning.

Local journalist Curtis Slimar has just told the BBC's Akwasi Sarpong that some workers have complained of racism saying that many of the management are of Indian origin.

The Nigerian footballing legend Stephen Keshi who died unexpectedly last night has left behind some incredible records:

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Every day we kick off the BBC Africa live page with a proverb courtesy of a reader. And for that we are grateful. But sometimes the meaning is opaque. 

Take today's:

If at first it makes sense to you, then check out the many and varied interpretations of this by readers on our Facebook page, external.

Joseph Ochwo Okoro suggests:  

While Malok Mumaize from Juba in South Sudan gives an entirely different interpretation:

And Chindefu Aubrey Kasonu from Lusaka in Zambia decided to use the opportunity to tell the world just how proud he is of his own children:  

Chad is reported to be sending additional troops to help Niger fend off an assault by jihadist militants on its southern frontier. 

On Monday, fighters from the Nigerian group Boko Haram seized the town of Bosso in Niger, after a series of attacks which left 30 local soldiers dead. 

Tens of thousands of townspeople are reported to have fled into the bush.

A military source in Chad told the French news agency AFP that about 2,000 heavily-armed soldiers were being deployed.

Manchester United have completed the signing of Villarreal defender Eric Bailly, subject to a work permit.

The 22-year-old Ivory Coast international joins for about $50m on a four-year deal.

Bailly said: "It is a dream come true to be joining Manchester United. To play football at the highest level is all I have ever wanted to do."

United manager Jose Mourinho said: "Eric has the potential to become one of the best around."

Liverpool and Ivory Coast defender Kolo Toure says Bailly's move is a huge boost for Ivorian football. 

Read more here.

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An Eritrean man believed to be at the heart of the operation to smuggle migrants from Africa to Europe has been extradited to Italy, prosecutors say.  

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But who is Mered Medhanie?

• The 39-year-old Eritrean once lived in Italy, where he came under the radar of anti-mafia investigators after trying to open a bank account in Dubai
• Later moved to Libya, where most African migrants start the treacherous journey to Europe, and finally to Sudan, where he was arrested
• His wife and family live in Sweden
• Called "the General", as he styled himself on late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi
• Said to have driven around in a tank and boasted: "Nobody is stronger than me"
• Amount of money that went through him estimated in the billions of dollars

  Mr Mered has not commented on the allegations.  

Read more about him here.

Go over to Facebook live , externalto watch Ghana's Reggie 'N' Bollie speaking to BBC Africa's Akwasi Sarpong about their UK X-Factor talent show experience, new found stardom and latest top 10 video.

They were runners up in last year's X-factor series on British television, where viewers are asked to vote for their favourite acts.

Bollie has been speaking about the song he thinks he'll be remembered by:

 When Akwasi Sarpong asked what he thought to it being played a lot in West African weddings he said that even when he is dead he thinks people will still be playing it.

Eritrea's information minister has been mocking the UN's Commission of Inquiry (COI) over its conclusions that the country is committing human rights violations.

He says people don't take the COI seriously:

In their defence the UN investigators said, external: "Torture and rape are not normally perpetrated in the open; the commission nonetheless gathered a large amount of corroborated evidence and observed the physical and emotional scars of such violence."

South Africa has sent a letter US and British diplomatic missions complaining after they issued alerts about possible militant attacks, reports the Reuters news agency.

The warnings were based on "very sketchy" information foreign ministry spokesman Clayson Monyela said in a statement. 

Security officials say no known militant groups operate in South Africa, which has seldom been associated with Islamist militancy. 

This has not changed the US stance:

We've been mentioning the fact that the late Nigerian football legend Stephen Keshi will be remembered for winning the Africa Cup of Nations as both a player and a coach.

But there are two other milestones, among many, worth mentioning:

• He was the first African to get two nations to the World Cup finals. Togo in 2006 and Nigeria in 2014.
• He was the first African coach to get a team to the knockout stages of the World Cup finals. Nigeria got to the last 16 at Brazil 2014.

Ivory Coast and Manchester City player Yaya Toure is the latest star to pay tribute to Keshi:

He tweeted: "A legend of African football is gone."

Our reporter in Uganda's capital Kampala tweets that the president has been heckled during a budget speech:

Opposition leader Kizza Besigye is currently in prison, charged with treason.

BBC Monitoring's Sammy Maina reports that after President Museveni thanked the National Assembly speaker for insisting the speech "be heard in "silence".

Mr Besigye is due in court on 15 June.

Image source, Curtis Slimar

Zambian police have fired tear gas at workers who were protesting for higher salaries at a cement factory owned by Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote in Ndola city in northern Zambia, reports Curtis Slimar from the local Sky FM Zambia radio station. 

Image source, Curtis Slimar

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About 130 Dangote workers and 450 contracted workers are reportedly protesting at the plant which was established in May 2015.

Image source, Mike Mubanga

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that after talks with religious leaders and the speakers from the two houses of parliament a committee will be set up to look at the stalemate over the electoral commission, the BBC's Anne Soy reports.

Recent opposition demonstrations in protest over the make up of the electoral commission, which it accuses of bias, have ended in violence.

Clashes with police on Monday in the western city of Kisumu left at least two people dead.

Yesterday, the interior minister banned opposition demonstrations on this issue.

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