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And we leave you with this picture from Dakar in Senegal:

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Following the shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando city in the US, people have been sharing a BBC news story about an attack in Kenya.

The shooting at Garissa University by the Somali militant group al-Shabab left 148 people dead. 

Some have queried why mainstream media aren't reporting the attack.

The answer is because it happened in 2015.  

It looks like this story has sprung up from an article in Spanish, external about the difference between the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando targeting gays, and the assault on Garissa University against Christians.   

Read more on the BBC News website.

BBC Africa Debate has just been asking if student protests can bring about lasting change. 

The radio is being recorded in South Africa where tomorrow marks 40 years since the Soweto uprising against inferior education for black people.

Here are a few of your thoughts on the topic:

You will be able to listen to the whole debate on Saturday.

Umaru Fofana
BBC Africa, Freetown

Swiss-based bioenergy firm  Addax plans to lay off of more than 800 workers in Sierra Leone, or more than half of its work force in the West African state, because of tough economic times, company sources have indicated to me. 

An announcement will be made later this month, they added. 

Our reporters in South Africa have seen pictures taken of Reeva Steenkamp after she was shot dead by athlete Oscar Pistorius.

But they explain they will not tweet them, despite a judge lifting the ban on publishing them:

A leading South African news site has taken the same decision:

While News 24's editor has asked readers what he should do:

Martin Patience
BBC News, Nigeria correspondent

Nigeria has been in the grip of a severe foreign currency shortage. As oil prices plummeted so did the country's oil earnings - meaning there was less cash to pay for imports.

Unlike other major producers - such as Russia - Nigeria refused to devalue its currency. But now following intense pressure it has. 

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The move will be welcomed by businesses that were forced onto the black market in order to pay for imports of goods and equipment. 

Foreign investors may also be tempted back as they will get more value for their money. 

But the new exchange rate is likely to push up already high inflation. And that could affect tens of millions of Nigerians who live in abject poverty. 

Hackers have shut down websites of businesses linked to South Africa's controversial Gupta family, reports News 24., external

By 15:10 South African time, the websites of Gupta-owned newspaper The New Age, external, news channel ANN7, external, and companies Sahara, external and Oakbay Investments, external were offline. 

By 16:00, both media websites were back online, but Sahara and Oakbay were still offline, says the Mail and Guardian, external.

A Twitter account calling itself Anonymous Africa has claimed they planned the attack:

The article it links to says that the Gupta-owned Oakbay Resources and Energy’s share price plummeted by over 90% today.

Earlier this year President Jacob Zuma was accused of allowing members of the family to wield undue influence over him. He denied the allegation.  

Read more: The Guptas and their links to South Africa's Jacob Zuma

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Here are three striking quotes from the final day of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius' sentence hearing:

That was Pistorius lawyer Barry Roux, as the former Paralympic and Olympic star walked in court without his stumps.

That was chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel, who called for Pistorius to be sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in jail for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Kim Martin, a cousin of Steenkamp, who was the last witness to give evidence at the sentence hearing. 

When the daughter of Angola's President Jose Eduardo dos Santos was appointed the boss of the state oil giant Sonangol recently some people grumbled. 

They saw it as part of an elaborate plan to shore up the Dos Santos dynasty and the powerful elite who have benefited from the oil giant's funds.    

Others pointed out Isabel dos Santos's track record in business. She is, after all, the richest woman in Africa.

But the BBC's Karen Allen links the fact the president, her father Jose Eduardo, promised to stand down from power after next years election.

She says stepping down could seem to indicate a loosening of his grip on power but the appointment of his daughter to a top job, suggests otherwise.

Read more on the Cult of Dos Santos on the BBC News website.

BBC Africa Business report's Matthew Davis explains that this new foreign exchange interbank trading window is a way of having a currency that’s subject to market forces, but restricting access to it.

So, while Nigeria has abandoned the peg, it hasn’t completely loosened its grip on the foreign exchange market.

This move could possibly allow the naira to devalue, something the president talked to BBC Focus on Africa about back in February:

Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Johannesburg

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South Africa's former athletics star Oscar Pistorius has spent all his life fighting misconceptions about disabled people but today, with this fate hanging in the balance, he hobbled in the courtroom before Judge Thokozile Masipa - desperate to show his vulnerability.

Very few people have seen the world-renowned athlete this way. Over the course of his trial, we learned of a self-conscious Pistorius worlds apart from the demi-god celebrated for his sporting prowess.

It is one of those moments that will remain etched on the minds of many - it's beyond doubt that defence lawyer Barry Roux made an impression here. 

But theatrics aside, Gerrie Nel, for the prosecution, reminded the world of the hard facts - Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead by Oscar Pistorius at his home on Valentine's Day 2013.

Mr Nel argued that South Africa's high murder rate and seeming leniency of the courts could no longer go unchallenged. He implored the judge to not let this be "business as usual".

Now Judge  Masipa - who, though soft-spoken, sounds authoritative - is faced with the difficult task of imposing a sentence.

Mr Nel wants Pistorius to be jailed for a minimum of 15 years but the former athlete's lawyer Barry Roux said he should not be imprisoned and should instead be made to do community service with children.  

A UK businessman serving a 10-year jail sentence for making bogus bomb detectors has been ordered by a court to forfeit cash and assets worth nearly $11m (£8m). 

Jim McCormick made a fortune selling his detectors to countries around the world, including Iraq and Niger. 

During his trial at the Old Bailey in London in 2013 Judge Richard Hone said McCormick's fraud had undoubtedly cost lives. 

Today, the judge ordered that McCormick's assets - including cash, properties in this country and abroad and a luxury motor cruiser - should be taken from him. 

Judge Hone ordered that some of the confiscated money should be paid in compensation to customers who bought the bogus devices.

The judge at Oscar Pistorius' hearing in Pretoria has just said he will be sentenced on 6 July.

The South African athlete shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day in 2013. 

Judge Thokozile Masipa is reconsidering his sentence after a court found him guilty of murdering Ms Steenkamp, overturning an earlier manslaughter verdict.

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Our previous post reports that the Nigerian shares have risen in what is believed to be reaction to the new foreign exchange policy.

Financial news agency Bloomberg explains, external that the policy will allow the value of the dollar to be decided by the market.

Nigeria's Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele told journalists in Abuja how this would work: 

The change will come in on 20 June.     

Nigerian shares have jumped 3.17%, reports Reuters news agency.

The agency puts the jump down to the central bank's new foreign exchange policy, which it says is designed to increase the availability of dollars. 

Prime Ndikumagenge
BBC Africa, Bujumbura

Nine schools are under investigation in eastern Burundi after photos of President Pierre Nkurunziza were defaced in text books.

More than 230 pupils were suspended on Monday for refusing to own up to the defacement of 27 books at their school.

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Eleven students in other provinces are already being prosecuted for insulting the president by defacing his photo, punishable by five to 10 years in jail.

Burundi has experienced unrest over the last year triggered by President Pierre Nkurunziza's third term in office.

A top South African prosecutor has asked a judge to lift the ban on the media showing photos of the dead body of Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot dead by her boyfriend Oscar Pistorius at his home on Valentine's Day 2013.  

Journalists are tweeting from court: 

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Chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel is addressing the court at the sentencing hearing of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius who murdered his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his home in the capital, Pretoria, in 2013. 

The courtroom is packed with reporters who are tweeting his comments: 

Nasidi Adamu Yahya
BBC Hausa Service, Abuja

Many Nigerians have welcomed the call by the influential Muslim leader, the Sultan of Sokoto, for the government to lift the ban on importing rice through land borders.

More than 900 people have commented on the story on BBC Hausa Facebook page, external.

Jonam Jordach Jacob says: "The best thing to do is for government to urge farmers to produce enough rice before it proceeds with the ban."

Ibrahim Musa adds "I believe the government banned importation of rice by land borders just to finish us. Otherwise how could a good government ban importation of rice when we are not self-sufficient".

The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar, told custom officials on Monday that ban, imposed in March, had brought untold hardship to Nigerians and worsened the scarcity of food in the country.

The price of a bag of rice has doubled from 8,000 naira ($25; £18) in January to 15,000 naira presently.

However, some analysts say other factors like foreign exchange policy have also contributed to the situation.

The government said it closed the border because it was losing revenue to smugglers.

Chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel says South African athlete has shown no remorse for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, as he argues for a minimum sentence of 15 years to be imposed on the former Olympic and Paralympic star. 

Our reporters are tweeting from court: