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Team Rwanda, the national cycling team of Rwanda, arrive in the UK tomorrow for their first ever UK racing tour. They will take part in 12 elite road races and other events known as criteriums in four weeks.

The team was formed by survivors of the 1994 genocide as a way to begin the healing process. 

Many lost family members in the violence and are now their immediate family's only breadwinners.

The team is now considered the leading sports team in Rwanda, giving hope and inspiration to others hoping to overcome the legacy of conflict.

You can read more about the team's plans here, external.

And go here, external for details of Team Rwanda's race schedule.

Here is a selection of remarks made by South African High Court judge Thokozile Masipa in the sentencing hearing of the athlete Oscar Pistorius:

Nick Cavell
BBC Africa Sport

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Senegal lost 55-58 to Canada in their opening game of their men's Olympic Basketball qualifying event in the Philippines.

It means Senegal must beat Turkey tomorrow in order to keep alive their hopes of playing at the Games in Rio. 

Canada have won their two group games and will now play in the semi-finals on Saturday.

Meanwhile in Italy, the Tunisians must beat Croatia at 19:00 GMT to have a chance of progressing and that's the same for 11-time African champions Angola as they play hosts Serbia at 16:00 GMT.

Only the overall winners from the three qualifying events progress to the Olympics.

Isa Sanusi
BBC Africa, Abuja

Security was tight across all prayer grounds this morning in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, for Eid al-Fitre.

Armed security guards screened everyone seeking entrance into prayer premises.  

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There will be one fewer South African playing in this month's Open Championship at Royal Troon in Scotland. Jaco van Zyl has withdrawn because of injury. He will be replaced by England's Luke Donald. 

Nine South Africans will play in the tournament, headed by former champions Louis Oosthuizen and Ernie Els.

Read the BBC Sport story for more

Members of the women's league of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) attended the trial of Oscar Pistorius in support of Reeva Steenkamp, and said the sentence handed down today was not sufficient.

"First five years, now six years? She [Judge Masipa] is an embarrassment to the justice system," women's league spokeswoman Jacqueline Mofokeng told Reuters, external.

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African human rights activists have released a video in which they urge African governments to support the International Criminal Court (ICC). 

It comes after an African Union committee suggested AU member states could leave the ICC unless the court met certain conditions. These included that sitting heads of state should be immune from prosecution.

The activists said the court had the ability to deliver justice in cases, such as war crimes, where national systems had failed.

If you're just joining us, here's a recap of today's news about Oscar Pistorius.

• The South African athlete has been jailed for six years for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp
• It's far less than the minimum prescribed term in South Africa of 15 years for murder
• The judge said she found mitigating factors, such as the athlete's remorse and vulnerability, outweighed aggravating ones, such as his failure to fire a warning shot
• The 29-year-old runner had previously admitted shooting Ms Steenkamp in 2013, but said he had mistaken her for an intruder and acted out of fear
• Today's sentence comes after the Olympic runner's conviction for manslaughter was changed to murder last December on appeal
• Time served will not count, suggesting Pistorius will serve three years before he is eligible for parole
• The athlete's legal team have said they will not appeal against today's sentence.

Many Zimbabweans are staying away from work in what activists are describing as a national shutdown.

The protest was called to put pressure on the government, which activists blame for the deteriorating economic situation.

The BBC’s Brian Hungwe says the centre of the capital, Harare, is very quiet, with many people not at work and only limited public transport running.

On Twitter, #ThisFlag, external, the social movement backing the shutdown call, #shutdownzimbabwe2016, external and #zimshutdown2016 , externalhave been trending.

Someone tweeted this video showing shops closed in one area of Harare:

The second city of Bulawayo is also empty:

The term “WhatsApp” is also trending as the social messaging serve was down – reportedly for six hours. Some said Facebook had also been inaccessible to users in Zimbabwe.

Jonathan Moyo, a cabinet minister who loves tweeting, says in the countryside life is continuing as normal:

On Tuesday, doctors, nurses and teachers went on strike because their salaries had not been paid for more than a month because a chronic cash shortage.

Ferdinand Omondi
BBC Africa, Nairobi

A Kenyan court has been told that an abducted lawyer, his client and their taxi driver were tortured before they were killed.

Pathologist Andrew Gachie, who submitted his report to the court today, said an examination of the body of lawyer Willie Kimani showed that his genitals had been crushed.

His skull had also been crushed – and he had died from a blunt force trauma to his head, he said.

The taxi driver had had a rope tied round his neck and died from strangulation.

Mr Kimani's client, Josephat Mwendwa, had died from head, neck and chest injuries.

Many Kenyans believe police officers carried out the killings. The bodies were found a week after the men went missing. Mr Kimani's client had been making an official complaint against the police.

Four police officers are in detention pending an investigation. No-one has been charged yet.

The Law Society of Kenya is staging a demonstration in Nairobi today, calling for the resignation of the police chief, the internal security minister and the head of the administration police service:

BBC reporter Nomsa Maseko was outside the High Court in Pretoria, taking readers' questions and talking to a legal expert during a Facebook Live event. 

You can catch up with what she said here, external.

Eid Mubarak to all our Muslim readers – celebrations are under way across the continent to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

The BBC’s Bashkas Jugsodaay attended prayers in the north-eastern Kenyan town of Garissa. As his photos show, it’s a time to dress up:

One little boy was showing off his water pistols:

In Eastleigh, a suburb of Kenya’s capital known as Little Mogadishu because of its many residents of Somali origin, it’s also fun and games, as photos from the BBC’s Ahmed Adan show:

… and it's a time to bring out the selfie stick:

Her comment refers to the new sentence being for only one year more than the original one, under which Pistorius was handed five years imprisonment for culpable homicide (manslaughter).

Read more: Gina Myers was interviewed by the BBC in February 2013  

The first of these tweets was posted before the new sentence was announced. The second one afterwards.

Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Pretoria

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Many have expressed shock at Oscar Pistorius' sentence, which is much less than the prescribed minimum for murder here. South Africans have taken to social media to express their unhappiness, with some describing the prison term as an insult. 

Outside court, legal experts told me the sentence was too lenient.

"The judge was sympathetic and empathetic to Pistorius. It was clear in the tone of her entire judgement," one said. 

But Judge Masipa said she carefully considered the circumstances around Reeva Steenkamp's death and her sentence needed to be fair to both Pistorius and the family of the deceased. She told the court she did not believe that a lengthy sentence was in the interests of justice. 

South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world, and some say a short sentence will send the wrong message to would-be offenders.

The Pistorius family though may breathe a small sigh of relief. If the term is unchallenged the athlete, known as the "blade runner", would have to serve only half of his term to be eligible for parole - that means he could be home in three years' time.

Oscar Pistorius's defence team have said they will not appeal against the athlete's six-year sentence, Reuters reports.

A South African journalist tweets that she expects state prosecutors to appeal and for the Supreme Court of Appeal to back them: