Fighting resumes in South Sudan capital
Shooting heard outside the presidential palace
Comes after five soldiers shot dead on Thursday
Tanzania court rules child marriage unconstitutional
Gambia president threatens jail terms over child marriage
Kenya memorial service for murdered lawyer
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Nigerian international Ahmed Musa has passed his medical and signed a four-year deal with Premier League champions Leicester City.
Image source, Getty ImagesAhmed Musa has transferred from CSKA Moscow
We've been getting pictures of the memorial service in Kenya for the three men, including lawyer Willie Kimani, tortured and killed after they were abducted a fortnight ago.
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Image source, EPAOne of the other victims was Mr Kimani's client Josephat Mwendwa who had filed a complaint against the police.
And the third was their driver Joseph Muiruri.
Image source, EPAThe three were remembered at the Consolata Shrine church in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
New Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has described Ivorian midfielder Yaya Toure as a "huge talent", the BBC's Stanley Kwenda reports.
He was speaking at his first press conference since he officially joined the club at the beginning of the month.
There’s been speculation that Guardiola might sell Toure like he did when he took over management of Barcelona in 2008.
Toure, who has a year left on his contract, took part in today’s training session with the rest of the squad:
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Abdourahmane Dia
BBC Afrique
In Mali, for the first time since the 2015 peace accord, members of some of the armed groups have joined the government.
Nina Wallette Intalou, leader of the Tuareg MNLA's women’s league, is now the country's tourism minister.
A member of another armed group, Mohamed el-Mocta, is also part of the new cabinet as minister of reconciliation.
A member of the MNLA has told the BBC that the group was not consulted prior to the appointment.
But the move is being seen as a significant step towards peace.
Despite the peace accord the region is still marred by violence, fuelled not only by the presence of many Islamist armed groups, but also by rivalry between pro and anti-government movements.
Image source, AFPTuareg delegations took part in the Mali peace talks in 2013
Six people were killed on Friday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in Damboa, north-east Nigeria, the AFP news agency reports.
Nigerian Army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman said the attack happened at about 5:15 am (04:15 GMT) in the town of Damboa, some 90km (56 miles) southwest of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri.
He blamed the attack on "two Boko Haram terrorists," AFP quotes him as saying.
One of the bombers failed to get into the mosque because of security measures.
"However, the second bomber veered off and gained entry into another smaller mosque and detonated the bomb, killing himself and six other worshippers and injuring one other person."
Image source, AFPNigeria's army are fighting Boko Haram in north-east Nigeria
Sunday Oliseh quit as coach of Nigeria's Super Eagles in February citing contract violations, unpaid wages and lack of support.
He is still angry as, he says, he still has not been paid.
On the day that the Nigeria Football Federation is due to announce a shortlist for a new coach Oliseh has tweeted:
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Abdinoor Aden
BBC Africa, Nairobi
A Kenyan court on Friday freed on bail an Italian athletics agent accused of doping runners.
Federico Rosa, who manages several top Kenyan athletes, was arrested by Kenyan police together with his father and questioned earlier this week over doping allegations that continue to plague the East African nation.
Mr Rosa is accused of having "conspired to cause injury by doping, to the reputation and profession of athletes".
During his second court appearance on Friday the judge agreed to release him on a $3,000 cash bail and ordered him to appear in court again on 14 July after the prosecution asked for more time to conduct investigations.
Image source, AFPThousands of people have fled renewed violence in the Central African Republic to neighbouring Chad and Cameroon, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency.
Image source, AFPMore than half a million people have fled their homes since 2013 in CAR
UNHCR has been sharing the news on Twitter:
According to the AFP news agency, UNHCR pointed out that such clashes typically occur when herders move their animals across the land, but warned that "this year, disturbingly, rival ex-Seleka and anti-Balaka militias have become involved".
The violence comes as the country struggles to recover from sectarian fighting which has driven half a million people from their homes since 2013.
Nigeria Oil Minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu has said that the country is producing 1.9 million barrels of oil a day, the Reuters news agency reports.
It adds that this represents a fall in production of about 300,000 barrels from the beginning of the year.
Oil production has been hit by a series of attacks on oil facilities in the country's Niger Delta region.
The latest happening earlier this morning in Bayelsa state.
India is competing with China for influence in Africa and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's current visit to the continent comes in the wake of visits by the country's president and vice-president.
Mr Modi's challenge according to analysis, external from India's Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses is to "convince African countries that India is interested in forging a long term partnership that will help in promoting sustainable development, security and a better rapport between the people of India and Africa".
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma met Mr Modi this morning and spoke about the changing trade relationship, external:
Quote MessageWe are looking to increase and diversify South African exports to India. We have identified new areas for market access including defence; deep mining; renewable energy and health sectors."
Mr Modi has been tweeting some photgraphs from the meeting with South Africa's president:
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More reports are coming in about the clash between South Sudan soldiers loyal to the two men who were on opposite sides in the recent civil war.
Both sides say the gunfire among soldiers in Gudelle suburb in the capital, Juba, last evening was not intentional, Juba-based Eye Radio reports, external.
Five soldiers were killed in the confrontation.
In a statement from soldiers loyal to President Salva Kiir SPLA spokesperson, brigadier Lul Ruai Koang, said the incident was not planned by either side:
Quote MessageThe SPLA would like to inform the people of South Sudan that there are….soldiers on the streets and roundabouts; their presence is for nothing but to maintain the security of Juba and improve it so that our people can go to work and school safely.
Quote MessageSo it is a crime that will be investigated ... so that they know what exactly happened.”
Eye also reports that forces loyal to Vice-Presidet Riek Machar say that the incident was provoked by some people who are against the peace agreement.
But denies that its soldiers started the fighting:
Quote Message“It is not a full plan by the government to fight or to kill or to do any harm against the opposition, only individuals are doing this.”
Colonel Willam Gatjath, spokesperson
Image source, Eye RadioIndia's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in South Africa on the second day of his four-nation tour of the continent.
He's been holding talks with President Jacob Zuma in the capital, Pretoria.
South Africa's government news service has been tweeting some of the details of what's been agreed:
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Tomi Oladipo
BBC Africa security correspondent
The African Union plans to withdraw its troops from Somalia by the end of 2020.
The exit strategy will see responsibilities handed over to the Somali National Army over a two-year period.
The AU mission, Amisom, hopes its forces would have regained territorial control over the whole of Somalia from Islamist militant group al-Shabab by 2018.
That, of course, is in theory.
On the ground, however, Amisom is plagued with its own structural and logistical problems.
The African nations contributing the soldiers are threatening to pull out of the mission because they say the international community is not providing enough support.
Meanwhile the enemy is still in control of some regions and continues to recruit fighters and sympathisers.
Image source, AFPAU troops first deployed in Somalia in 2007
We reported earlier that, according to the Herald newspaper, Zimbabwe's civil servants would be ending their strike after the government paid their outstanding salaries.
This week the country was hit by both the strike and a mass stay-away partly over the difficult economic situation in the country.
The country's newspapers have different takes on the main story.
Zimbabwean Trevor Ncube, the owner of South Africa-based Mail and Guardian newspaper, has shared a photo of the front pages.
The government-affiliated Herald stands out from the rest.
Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh has banned child marriages, the AFP news agency reports.
It reports that he announced the ban on Wednesday saying:
Quote MessageAnyone who marries a girl under 18 years will spend 20 years in jail. The girls' parents would spend 21 years in jail and anyone who knows about it and fails to report the matter to the authorities would spend 10 years in jail."
He also threatened a jail term for the imam involved in the wedding ceremony.
The president called for legislation to confirm the ban later this month.
Image source, AFPWe have been getting more details on the clash yesterday in Juba between soldiers loyal to South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar, that left five dead.
The AFP news agency reports that along with the five dead soldiers two were also wounded in the shootout which took place at a checkpoint in the city's Gudele neighbourhood.
It adds that the violence is believed to be the first direct clash between the army and former rebels in the capital since both took up positions there as part of the peace agreement that ended the country's civil war.
Nyarji Roman, Riek Machar's spokesman confirmed the incident but said it was isolated and that calm had been restored.
Quote MessageI want to tell the public that there should be no panic. The situation is now calm and the leadership ordered the two forces to go back to their barracks,"
Nyarji Roman, Riek Machar's spokesman
In other incidents, a UN worker was reportedly injured in a separate shooting and a US embassy vehicle was also shot at, Mr Roman told the AFP.
Image source, AFPAn oil pipeline operated by a subsidiary of Eni has been attacked in Nigeria's Bayelsa state, the Reuters news agency is reporting.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, it adds.
The militant group the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) has carried out a series of attacks in recent months against the countries oil facilities, which have driven oil production to a 30-year low.
The government hinted in June that a truce had been agreed, but the NDA has said that that was not the case.
Image source, AFPNigeria's oil production has hit a 30-year low in the wake of a series of attacks in the Niger Delta
A requiem mass for slain lawyer Willie Kimani, his client Josephat Mwenda and taxi driver Joseph Muiruri is being held at the Consolata Shrine church in Nairobi, the Star newspaper reports, external.
The three men were abducted and then killed and their bodies dumped in Oldonyo Sabuk river, about a 30-minute drive from the capital, Nairobi.
A post-mortem revealed that they had been tortured.
Four police officers alleged to be involved in the killings are in custody.
People are tweeting from the service:
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South Sudan's Defence Minister Kuol Manyang Juuk says that five members of the security services were killed in shooting in the capital, Juba, on Thursday night.
He told Eye Radio, external that armed men loyal to the country's Vice-President Riek Machar opened fire from a car.
South Sudan's civil war broke out in December 2013 after clashes between soldiers loyal to Mr Machar and those loyal to President Salva Kiiir.
The two men now are part of the national unity government.
In his interview with Eye Radio the defence minister called for people not to panic.
Eye Radio's Phillip Mabior told the BBC that Juba was calm this morning.
Image source, AFPSchools and hospitals in Zimbabwe are set to resume normal operation after teachers and nurses received their delayed salaries, state-affiliated newspaper The Herald, external reports.
Civil servants have been on a three-day strike which has paralysed schools and hospitals.
The paper quotes government minister Supa Mandiwazira blaming "cash-flow" problems and promising that the government would from now on ensure that salaries are paid on time.
Image source, The HeraldThe payment of the salaries was one of the issues raised by a civil society group which led a mass stay-away in the country on Wednesday.
It has called for further protests next week.