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And we leave you with this photo of flamingos in flight taken in the coastal town of Porto Amboim in Angola:

Juda Ngwenya, a former South African photographer for the Reuters news agency who captured some pivotal moments in the country's history, has been remembered today at a service in Johannesburg: 

He photographed conflict during South Africa's apartheid years as well as the moment Nelson Mandela voted in the first democratic elections on 27 April 1994.

According to the Associated Press news agency, several hundred people gathered to remember him, including Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa:

AP said fellow photographer Siphiwe Sibeko wrote in a tribute that the 65-year-old was also fashion conscious and a generous friend:

Aboubakar Famau
BBC Africa, Tanzania

Some Tanzanian farmers have experienced a bumper harvest of tomatoes.

But some have ended up with rotten produce as the tomato price has fallen sharply.

Many are now calling for the government to set up processing plants to produced canned tomatoes and paste.

These farmers at Mlale market in the central region of Morogoro showed the BBC their surplus stocks:

Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo

The Mozambican government says Monday’s sudden hail storm in Maputo has killed 12 people - this number is an increase on our report yesterday that at least four people had died. 

The storm destroyed 55 houses and seven schools, according to Deputy Health Minister Mouzinho Saide.

Mozambique’s weather institute was criticised for not giving an early warning about the storm. 

But the institute said it was not able to issue a warning as it did not have the right equipment to collect such information.

People tweeted pictures of the hail stones at the time:

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Many readers have been debating on our BBC Africa Facebook page, external whether more African countries should leave the International Criminal Court (ICC), following the announcement that the Gambia is to pull out of it.

The Gambian information minister described the ICC as "an International Caucasian Court for the persecution and humiliation of people of colour, especially Africans".    

Richard Mbewe from Chipata in Zambia agrees with this sentiment:

But Andy Alang from Yaounde in Cameroon says pulling out of the ICC would be a mistake:  

Eke Shakawe from Gaborone in Botswana emailed us at africalive@bbc.co.uk to say he wants the ICC to have more powers:

One person tweeted @BBCAfrica with another complaint about the war crime court's procedures:

The one place which is not getting involved in the debate is the African Union, which has been critical of the ICC in the past:  

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Fighters believed to be members of the so-called Islamic State (IS) have taken control of an ancient Red Sea port town in Somalia, the private Jowhar website reports.

Qandala lies 75km (46 miles) from the commercial port city of Bosaso, in the north-eastern region of Puntland.

Qandala district commissioner Ahmed Khurshe confirmed the fall of the town to IS to journalists, saying that some residents, including himself, had fled.

Reports suggest the fighters set up a military camp inside Qandala, which itself is a coastal town.

Puntland's regional administration is holding an emergency meeting to discuss the situation.

A year ago, a group of al-Shabab fighters in Puntland pledged allegiance to IS.

The breakaway faction is led by Abdiqadir Mumin, who the US put on a sanctions list last month, external because of his terrorism activities.

Read more: Al-Shabab v IS in Somalia

Nigeria’s anti-corruption body is searching for Jamilah Tangaza, a former government official and former BBC journalist.

Ibrahim Magu, the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), told the BBC Hausa service that the agency had declared her wanted following media reports that she had tried to jump bail.

Ms Tangaza was arrested by the EFCC in July over allegations of financial crimes while she headed a government agency in Abuja in charge of allocating land in the capital.

She was released on bail in August while investigations continued. She has not been charged and she has denied any allegations of corruption.

Following the report on Tuesday, external by the Nigerian news site Sahara Reporters about Ms Tangaza’s alleged escape attempt, Mr Magu said anti-corruption agents had tried to contact her, but all her phones were switched off.

The person who guaranteed her bail is helping the EFCC in its search for Ms Tangaza, he said.

All border officials had been warned to look out for her, as has Interpol, so any attempt to flee the country would prove futile, he said.

In Kenya children who are born intersex cannot get birth certificates or identity cards, or register for exams.

Gathoni Muchomba tells BBC Africa why she is campaigning to get the government to recognise them as a third gender:

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As a 10 November deadline looms for mobile phone users in Senegal to register their sim cards, some subscribers have already found themselves deprived of a service, France's RFI radio reports, external. 

The move for mandatory registration is understood to be a security measure in the fight against terrorism. 

It is believed that phones can be used to plan attacks or to remotely detonate explosives.

To avoid being cut off by their networks, people in Senegal must show up in person at premises of their operator with their ID to have their name and address registered. 

But one man told RFI that his phone connection had been stopped because his passport had expired and he had no other ID documents to show officials as he was from Burkina Faso:

Other countries in the region, such as Burkina Faso, have already enforced such regulations. 

Senegal has so far avoided a major attack by Islamist militants, but the country neighbours Mali, which has been fighting al-Qaeda-linked militants for several years. 

This year al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb launched two deadly attacks elsewhere in West Africa: A cafe and hotel was targeted in Burkina Faso in January and a beach resort in Ivory Coast in March. Senegal already requires foreign nationals to register to get a sim card.

Rana Jawad
BBC North Africa correspondent, Tunis

The US State Department has confirmed to the BBC that they are looking into reports that two US nationals have been arrested in Tunisia on suspicion of terrorist activities.  

Tunisian security officials say they apprehended the two in the north-western city of Jendouba, which is close to the Algerian border.  

The men were arrested for alleged links to so-called Islamic State (IS) and are brothers who recently converted to Islam, according to several local media reports.

Officials here say one of them is married to a Tunisian woman.

The two men are due to appear in front of a judge. 

Unconfirmed reports say the pair had laptops which contained material with calls for jihad and plans for bombing targets in the country. 

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Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Johannesburg

Police fired stun grenades to disperse protesters outside South Africa's parliament in Cape Town as Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan was delivering his midterm budget speech.

A journalist from South Africa's News 24 tweeted from the scene:

Throngs of students marched demanding free tertiary education. 

Such protests over tuition fees have disrupted lectures at universities across the country for about a month now. 

The movement known as #FeesMustFall has garnered support from various sections of society but concerns have been raised about the destruction of property, such as libraries, and the intimidation of non-participating students. 

Last year saw similar demonstrations from students who say their families simply cannot afford the exorbitant fees. 

They say they are a form of “financial exclusion” for the country’s poor black population. 

The government has launched a commission looking into the feasibly of no fees in tertiary for deserving students but will only report on its finding next year. 

Until then, universities have been left to their own devices on how to restore calm at their institutions.

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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has requested lawmakers to approve a plan to obtain $30bn (£24bn) in foreign loans. 

If you can't get your head round $30bn, the BBC's Naziru Mikailu in Abuja gives it a little perspective: It is more than the federal government's entire budget from 2016.

That budget was seven trillion naira, which in December equated to $30bn. 

But as the currency has fallen sharply, $30bn is now worth nine trillion naira. 

The president said the money would be spent across all sectors with a special emphasis on infrastructure.

Thomas Naadi
BBC Africa, Accra

Ghana's military is taking disciplinary action against soldiers who provided an armed escort to the brother of President John Mahama during a campaign event on Sunday, an army spokesman has told the BBC.

Col Aggrey Quashie, the military’s public affairs director, said the military was not allowed to provide escorts to private individuals.

He said the soldiers who accompanied Ibrahim Mahama were part of the president’s security detail.

They had not been officially assigned to provide protection for the president’s brother.

The military’s investigation was prompted by photos on social media that seem to show the businessman with "about a dozen, heavily armed, well-built men" in military camouflage, Ghana's Joy Online, external reported. 

An eyewitness posted on Joy's Facebook page that there were also armoured cars for his use.

Campaigners for President Mahama also tweeted, showing a man in camouflage:

Elections are due in Ghana in December. 

Image source, Botswana Department of Foreign Affairs

African states unhappy with the International Criminal Court(ICC) should work to reform it from within rather than pulling out, Botswana’s Foreign Minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi has told the Reuters news agency.

The 65-year-old, who is a candidate to become the next African Union (AU) Commission chair, gave the interview just before The Gambia announced it was leaving the ICC.

Ms Venson-Moitoi’s stance is at odds with the AU, which has repeatedly complained that the ICC treats Africans and Africa unfairly.

Gambia’s information minister didn’t mince his words when putting forward his country’s objections to the war crimes court:

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But South Africa, which announced last Friday that it was withdrawing, said the treaty that set up the court was at odds with its own laws granting leaders diplomatic immunity.

Last year, a South African court criticised the government for refusing to arrest Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the court on genocide and war crimes that he denies.

Ms Venson-Moitoi said that not all AU members were in agreement with South Africa's hard-line approach:

Ms Venson-Moitoi's main rival for the AU chair is Amina Mohamed, foreign minister of Kenya - a fierce critic of the ICC.

Watch the tailors from the Kenyan slum of Kibera whose suits are now being shown on the catwalks of Europe:

We mentioned a few days ago that the hashtag #Nov8AfricanEdition, external has been trending on Twitter. 

Tweeters have been imagining how the US election would be reported if they were happening in Africa, with fake "breaking news" headlines and sarcastic support:

Image source, Twitter

Image source, Twitter

One of the highlights was this mocked-up picture:

Now BBC Trending has looked into the origins of the hashtag. 

It explains that the hashtag began trending after the third presidential debate, in which Republican candidate Donald Trump hinted he might not accept, external the election result if his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton won.

The jokers saved their best material for Trump's accusation that the US campaign was "rigged".

Read more: Africans chuckle at ugly US election

Tomi Oladipo
BBC Monitoring's Africa security correspondent

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Ethiopian troops have withdrawn from parts of south-western Somalia, including a military base in the strategic town of Tiyeglow, where they were stationed in the fight against al-Shabab militants.

Following today’s withdrawal, officials in Somalia’s Bakol region say some residents have fled the area, fearing an imminent take-over by fighters from the Islamist group.

Ethiopia's Communication Minister Getachew Reda blamed a lack of support from the international community for this move.

But he said the troops being withdrawn were not part of the 22,000-strong African Union (AU) force – but a separate batch deployed to support AU and Somali government soldiers:

Ethiopia stressed that the withdrawal had nothing to do with the state of emergency at home and that it had enough troops to handle that.

Other nations that contribute to the AU force have also complained about the lack of commitment to Somalia from the international community and have threatened to pull out their forces permanently.

But with the threat of al-Shabab closer to home for some of them, leaving Somalia prematurely might backfire.

James Copnall
Africa editor, BBC World Service

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Armed groups in South Sudan have released 145 children, according to the UN children's agency Unicef.

Military forces in the country often use underage combatants who are usually enrolled by force. 

The children had been part of the main rebel group - SPLM-In Opposition - as well as a smaller ethnic militia, Cobra Faction, Unicef says. 

They have been disarmed and given civilian clothes and will receive medical support and counselling. 

Unicef says there are still 16,000 child soldiers in South Sudan.

See more: South Sudan artists paint for peace

Today's BBC Focus on Africa radio programmes at 15:00 GMT, 17:00 GMT and 19:00 GMT look at how South Sudan's civil war can be resolved.

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UN chief Ban Ki-moon has condemned the recent violence in the Central African Republic (CAR), where four civilians were killed on Monday during a protest.

Peacekeepers are accused of opening fire when demonstrators tried to force their way into the UN headquarters on Monday, but the UN denies using live bullets and says its soldiers only used tear gas.

Fourteen people, including five peacekeepers, were wounded in the incident which happened as civil society activists called on residents to stay at home to demand the withdrawal of Minusca, saying it was failing to protect people.

In a statement, Mr Ban welcomed "the determination of the government to ensure that the perpetrators and instigators of these attacks are brought to justice".

He added:

The UN peacekeepers were deployed to CAR in the wake of a civil war that broke out in 2013.

Numerous armed group still operate across the country - both the mainly Seleka rebels and Christian self-defence forces set up to tackle them, known as anti-balaka.  

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Uganda and South Sudan have started a joint police force along their common border to stem the killings of travellers, reports Uganda's private Observer newspaper, external. 

The paper says that at least five buses travelling between South Sudan's capital, Juba, and the Ugandan capital, Kampala, have been ambushed in South Sudan over the last four months.

It said "many" passengers have been killed, without giving specific numbers.

Correspondents say armed groups in South Sudan's southern Equatoria region are behind the attacks, often targeting people from the Dinka ethnic group. 

Ugandan troops have intervened at times in South Sudan's current civil war on side of President Salva Kiir.

Most recently they conducted operations to rescue their citizens caught up in the violence that erupted in Juba in July - less than a year after a peace deal was agreed. 

The joint patrol began on Sunday, the Observer says.