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. 

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And we leave you with this photo of Kenya's Ezekiel Kemboi competing in one of the heats in the men's 3,000m steeplechase at the Rio Olympics in Brazil. 

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South Africa's News24, external has posted a video showing the life story of South Africa's world record breaking 400m runner Wayne van Niekerk.

His mother Odessa Swarts recalls that Wayde was born prematurely and she was warned that the baby might only have 24 hours to live.

He survived and as a child he became the second fastest under-10 in the country.

Watch more about him here:

Ms Swarts was also a high-performing South African athlete.

Nick Cavell
BBC Africa Sport

Image source, AP

It's another busy night of sport in Rio, here are some of the events with an African interest to look out for: 

Basketball

• Nigeria will take on hosts Brazil and have to win and hope other results go their way to ensure they go through to the next round

Boxing:

• Morocco’s Achraf Kharroubi will fight Cuba’s Yosbany Veitia in the last 16 of the flyweight division 
• Egypt’s Hosam Bakr Abdin is up against Mexico’s Misael Rodriguez in the quarter-finals of the middleweight division

Handball:

• Tunisia take on Croatia and have to win to stand any chance of progressing to the next stage

Horrific accounts of rape, pillage and killings have emerged weeks after fighting broke out between South Sudanese government forces and troops loyal to former Vice-President Riek Machar, the AP news agency reports, external. 

Foreign workers and South Sudanese were targeted as soldiers loyal to President Kirr went on the rampage in the capital,Juba. 

Despite repeated calls for help, UN troops did not respond to the desperate pleas despite being near the area of attack. 

One survivor recounted a shocking and horrible choice by one of the soldiers: 

She was later raped by 15 men. 

Image source, AP

Earlier, we posted the video of the presidential election result being read out at Zambia's election centre.

In that short film the camera was pointed at the officials, but you could hear the chanting from Edgar Lungu's supporters in the background.

The BBC reporter in the room has shared her film of the supporters themselves ready with a portrait and champagne (or some kind of bubbly).

The partner of an Ethiopia-born British activist jailed in Ethiopia has made a heart felt plea for his release.

Andargachew Tsege was kidnapped, it is believed that by Ethiopian operatives, while changing planes in Yemen two years ago.

He was then taken to Ethiopia where he had been sentenced to death in absentia for his political activities against the state.

Yemi Hailemariam writes in the Guardian, external that the recent action against anti-government protesters - in which Amnesty Intertnational says nearly 100 people died - has made her worried about her partner, who she calls Andy.

Ms Yemi writes:

Image source, Yemi Hailemariam

Nick Cavell
BBC Africa Sport

Morocco’s Mohammed Rabii, who is the reigning world amateur champion, has won a bronze medal after he lost to Uzbekistan’s Shakhram Giyasov in the semi-finals of the welterweight division. 

It is the first Olympic medal Africa has won at the boxing since 2008.

Image source, Reuters

Image source, AFP

Several qualification rounds have just finished and there have been some good African performances.

In the women's 200m Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou won her heat. She missed out on the 100m medals by a seven thousandths of a second - behind bronze medal winner Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. 

In the men's 3,000m Kenya's Ezekiel Kemboi, will be the one to watch as he goes for a third Olympic medal. He won in 2004 and 2012. 

Here's a list of who's qualified for the next stage:

Women's 200m semi-finals Tuesday 01:00 GMT

• Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou 
• Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare
• Ivory Coast’s Murielle Ahoure

(Top 2 finishers in each of the three semi-finals go to final and two other fastest)

Men's 3,000m final – Wednesday 14:50 GMT

• Ezekiel Kemboi of Kenya 
• Soufiane Elbakkali of Morocco
• Brimin Kiprop Kipruto of Kenya
• Jacob Arap Tany of Uganda
• Conseslus Kipruto of Kenya
• Yemane Haileselassie of Eritrea
• Hamid Ezzine of Morocco
• Amor Ben Yahia of Tunisia

The BBC's Nomsa Maseko has just told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme that the streets of Zambia's capital, Lusaka, are green and white - the colours of the governing PF party - in the wake of President Edgar Lungu's re-election.

We've just been getting some photos of the celebrations:

Image source, AP

Image source, AP

The main opposition UPND party says it will challenge the election result.

Mr Lungu got just over the 50% threshold to avoid a second round run-off.

Image source, EPA

Ruth Jebet's win in the 3,000m steeplechase has some Kenyans pondering what could have been.

Jebet was born in Kenya but switched allegiance in 2013 to Bahrain.  

Here's a sample of some of the comments: 

A Nigerian bank, which is not relying on bricks and mortar branches, opened for business today.

The BBC's Umar Shehu Elleman in Lagos says the bank is the first of its kind in Nigeria.

Sun Trust Bank, backed by billionaire Aliko Dangote, wants customers to use the internet and their mobile phone.

Money can be taken out of ATMs at no charge.

It does have a building in Lagos, but inside, as Heat Nigeria, external describes it, the inside resembles an airport  departure loung rather than a bank.

It "is completely different, no kiosks or cashiers, signalling a total dependence on technology in its service offerings to the public".  

Kenyan-born Ruth Jebet, who runs for Bahrain, has just won the 3,000m steeplechase at the Rio Olympics.

She seemed to have a chance of breaking the world record but slowed down towards the line and just missed out.  

She won in a time of 8 minutes 59.75 seconds.

Kenya's Hyvin Jepkemoi came second, her compatriot Beatrice Chepkoech came fourth and Ethiopia's Sofia Assefa came fifth.

Image source, AFP

Nomsa Maseko
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, has been brought to a complete standstill after President Edgar Lungu was declared the winner of last week's presidential election. 

There are celebrations all over the city. Thousands dressed in the green and white of the Mr Lungu's Patriotic Front are celebrating on the street. 

Some opposition parties, including Mr Lungu’s main rival Hakainde Hichilema, have described this election as a sham which does not reflect the will of the people.

Image source, AP

Supporters of Zambia's President Edgar Lungu have been celebrating his victory. The electoral commission announced that he had got 50.3% of the vote, avoiding a run-off against his close challenger Hakainde Hichilema who obtained 47.7%. 

The BBC's Meluse Kapatamoyo has sent us these pictures of Mr Lungu's supporters reveling in the victory of their man: 

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

South Africa's governing ANC has taken collective responsibility for the recent disastrous municipal elections. 

It did not move to recall President Jacob Zuma.

The party’s secretary-general Gwede Mantashe described the talks in the 86-member executive committee as “frank, rough, open and robust”.

Mr Mantashe who is in charge of the day-to-day running of the governing party said: 

“The NEC unanimously agreed to take collective responsibility for the poor performance of the ANC during the elections and resolved to take immediate and bold actions to address the weaknesses and shortcomings that led to the decline of our electoral support.”

Some smaller opposition parties currently locked in coalition talks with the ANC demanded that Mr Zuma be removed if it wants their support.

Mr Mantashe rejected this, saying: "We are prepared to take to the opposition benches if we have to.”

There is no doubt the ANC is in decline. If its support continues to ebb away, it could even lose the 2019 general election, despite dominating every poll since 1994.

Zambia's main opposition candidate for president has said he would not recognise the result of the presidential election showing that President Edgar Lungu had won, RFI reports. , external

Hakainde Hichilema called the results "a coup on democracy." He said that the election did not meet the minimum requirement of a free and fair election. 

Mr Hichilema said that he had raised electoral anomalies, especially in Lusaka, to the electoral commission and they had agreed that they will hold off the announcement until a verification of votes was done. 

He accused Mr Lungu of colluding with the commission to go ahead with the announcement of the results. 

He said Zambians now have to decide on how they want to proceed. 

The trendsmap , externalwebsite is showing that Edgar and Lungu are now trending on Twitter in Zambia as people share the news of the incumbent president's victory:

Image source, Trendsmap

Some have been tweeting congratulaitons:

Mr Lungu's main rival Hakainde Hichilema will now challenge the result, but one of his supporters has been among those sending congratulations:

It was the first time in Zambia that a presidential candidate had to get over 50% of the vote in order to be declared the outright  winner without the need for a second round.

The percentages for the two main candidates were:

• Edgar Lungu 50.35%
• Hakainde Hichilema 47.67%

Mr Hichilema's party, the UPND, has accused the commission of fraud and its lawyer has told the Reuters news agency that it has started legal proceedings. 

A Zambian election monitoring group has put a video up of the moment that Zambia's President Edgar Lungu was declared the winner of Thursday's presidential election.

You can hear the loud cheering of his supporters before the returning officer finishes his sentence:

A Zambian election monitoring site is tweeting comments from the electoral commission:

Mr Lungu needed more than 50% of the vote to be declared the outright winner - and he got over the threshold by less than one percentage point.