Scroll down for Thursday's storiespublished at 18:39 British Summer Time 9 June 2016
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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:
Quote MessageWhen the baobab tree has fallen, the goats start climbing on it"
A Bambara proverb from Mali sent by Otovo Lucky in Benin City, Nigeria
There has been a lively discussion on our BBC Facebook page, external about the proverb’s meaning:
Quote MessageIt means when a man loses his dignity, everyone can now deal with him contemptuously."
Alaku Benjamin Alumbugu
Quote MessageIt means when a great man falls due to carelessness and negligence, those people he considered fools can make fun of him."
Quote MessageIt means; one's failure or death is another person's joy."
Masereka Clovice
Mahmut, living in Ankara in Turkey, contacted by WhatsApp with his interpretation:
Quote MessageThe meaning is if you lose power even the powerless thing can dare to defy you."
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And we leave with this photo of athletes from South Sudan, part of the refugee athletes who qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics, and their training partners during a jogging session today at their camp in Ngong township near Kenya's capital, Nairobi: