Africa highlights: Wednesday 6 July 2016, as it happened

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Pistorius supporters outside courtpublished at 08:22 British Summer Time 6 July 2016
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The sentence will be read out at the High Court in South Africa's capital, Pretoria.
Pistorius set to learn murder sentencepublished at 08:18 British Summer Time 6 July 2016
South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is due to be sentenced for the murder of his girlfriend in 2013.
Pistorius, 29, could face 15 years in prison after a court last December convicted him of murder.
The ruling came after the state appealed against a manslaughter verdict, for which Pistorius served nine months of a five-year sentence.
Pistorius shot Reeva Steenkamp four times through a locked toilet door in February 2013.
Pistorius is a six-time Paralympic gold medallist whose legs were amputated below the knee as a baby. He made history by becoming the first amputee sprinter to compete at the Olympics, in 2012 in London, running on prosthetic "blades".
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Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp had been dating for three months before she was shot dead in 2013
Wise wordspublished at 08:15 British Summer Time 6 July 2016
Today's African proverb:
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The load is lighter when two people carry it."
An Akan proverb sent by Mercy Levin in Trelleborg, Sweden
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Good morningpublished at 08:14 British Summer Time 6 July 2016
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