That's it from us today. 

We will return tomorrow, by which time the world should know who won the US presidential election. You can get the latest news on the count on our election live page.

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The electricity briefly went off at a hotel in Nambia's capital, Widndhoek, where the government was meeting foreign businessmen to urge them to invest in the energy sector, the private Namibian newspaper reports, external.

President Hage Geingob joked that the blackout was intended to indicate to the businessmen that they needed to invest in the industry.

He also called on white people to share their wealth with black people, saying Namibia was one of the most unequal countries in the world, the newspaper reports.

Namibia became independent in 1990.

Read: Namibia profile

All day we've been trying to get an idea of who will win the US presidential election if people in African countries voted.  

The US embassy in Malawi has run its own poll and Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton won:

They flag up that it is very much an unofficial mock election and only  321 Malawians took part.

From that group, 268 voted for Mrs Clinton while 53 voted for Donald Trump.  

She was also ahead in a mock election in Kenya and a poll in South Africa. 

Image source, AFP

Eyewitnesses have been describing to AFP news agency the blast which targeted UN peacekeepers in Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, while they were on a morning run. 

Resident Ndeko Bofole said he saw an Indian peacekeepers "whose leg was amputated", while others had injuries to their "arms, necks, as if knives had sliced through their bodies".  

A security guard at a building site, Santas Acenti Foruguta, said he fled as soon as he heard the explosion. 

When he returned a short while later, he said he saw Indian peacekeepers "putting injured people in sports gear into their vehicles" before going off, leaving behind a young girl who was killed by the explosion while on her way to school. 

The UN has not yet commented on the allegation that the girl was left behind. 

See earlier post for more details

Chipiliro Kansilanga
BBC World Service

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Private media groups in Malawi have threatened to stop reporting news about President Peter Mutharika and his cabinet ministers if he continues to "intimidate" journalists reports The Daily Times newspaper, external.

They say they are fed up with the intimidation of journalists and insults from the president.  

Mr Mutharika recently described the media as disgusting, saying it peddled nonsense and garbage.   

Journalists have complained about the slow progress through parliament of an Access to Information bill. 

We'll bring you the government's response once we get it. 

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

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South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) says it supports the appointment of a judicial commission of inquiry to investigate damaging allegations of corruption in President Jacob Zuma's government, but it wants him to choose the judge who will head it. 

This is in contrast to the recommendation by South Africa's main anti-corruption watchdog, the public protector, that Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng should choose the judge.

Following a meeting of the ANC's leadership body, the National Working Committee (NWC), party secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said the commission “must be established like any other judicial commission of inquiry".

There was no place for the public protector's office, which was a constitutionally created post, to determine how the commission should be constituted, he added.

Last week, the anti-corruption watchdog released a report which said that Mr Zuma may have violated the code of ethics which governs his office in his relationship with the wealthy Gupta family. Mr Zuma and the family have denied all wrongdoing. 

Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas was quoted in the report as saying that businessman Ajay Gupta offered him 600m rand ($44.6m; £36.2m) last year, "to be deposited in an account of his choice", if he accepted the post of finance minister.

Mr Gupta also asked him if he had "a bag which he could use to receive and carry 600,000 rand in cash immediately", Mr Jonas alleged, adding that Mr Zuma's son, Duduzane, was present at the meeting.

He was expected to remove key Treasury officials from their posts and advance the Gupta family's "business ambitions", Mr Jonas was quoted as saying.

Mr Gupta denied meeting Mr Jonas, and his lawyers said the family would welcome the opportunity to clear its name at a judicial commission of inquiry. 

Mr Zuma is expected to survive an opposition-sponsored no confidence vote in Parliament tomorrow as the ANC has rejected calls for him to step down.

See earlier post for more details

Read: South Africa's corruption crusader

A Kenyan newspaper is tweeting: 

The Lesotho army chief who was accused of launching an attempted coup in 2014 is going to step down, officials have said, AFP news agency reports.

Tlali Kamoli was fired as army chief two years ago and was re-instated after last year's general election. 

But the US was widely reported to have pushed for his removal as a condition for renewing Lesotho's membership of a scheme that provides duty-free access to US markets, AFP adds.             

All day we've been trying to get an idea of who would win the US presidential election if people in African countries voted.

In one Kenyan mock election in the village of President Barack Obama's father's, Hillary Clinton won by a landslide 78%.

A poll by South Africa's News 24 site is less dramatic but still puts Mrs Clinton in front:

Image source, News 24

The latest result in our poll tracker portrays a much tighter race:

See earlier posts for more details

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While the US presidential election race is very tight, one thing is for sure - Barack Obama will be the former president very soon.

And then he'll be eligible to receive a payment as a former president.

While this is something that happens all over the world, the amount people receive varies.

So Jeune Afrique magazine has been looking at, external what benefits former African presidents get.

Here are some highlights:

Burkina Faso: Ex-presidents receive four million CFA ($6735; £5435) per quarter as well as a driver and security.

Mauritania: Former heads of state receive an annual grant of 8.4 million UM ($23,000; £19,000) and an annual allowance of 1,440,000 UM. They also get housing a vehicle, driver, two domestic and two security guards.

Ivory Coast: Former presidents receive a monthly lifetime allowance of 9.6m CFA ($14,000; £13,000 and their telephone charges, water and electricity, fuel and housing are covered. They also have an office, five domestic staff, 10 security officers, three vehicles and are medically covered.  

As for President Obama, he'll receive a pension equal to the pay of a head of an executive department, which was $203,700 per year in 2015, external.  

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Fifa secretary-general Fatma Samoura is to visit Sierra Leone to address the ongoing dispute between the country's football association (SLFA) and local authorities.

Football's world governing body has requested a meeting with Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma and other leading officials.

"We are confident that Sierra Leone's president and government officials will understand and honour our request for an official visit on 16 November," Samoura wrote in a letter to the SLFA.

"We are convinced a positive solution can be found with the necessary commitment from all parties."

Samoura also hopes to discuss a match-fixing inquiry relating to a Sierra Leone international in 2008.

Read the full BBC Sport story here

Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo

Armed militiamen, accused of belonging to Mozambique’s main opposition Renamo party, have attacked a train in the northern province of Nampula. 

The train was travelling to Nacala-a-Velha, where there is a new mineral port devoted to coal exports. 

Nampula provincial police spokesman Zacarias Nacute told me he was informed Renamo gunmen fired three shots at the train and but no-one was injured.

"Thanks to the prompt intervention of the Mozambican police, the gunmen were dispersed," he added.

Renamo has been carrying out sporadic attacks against government and civilian targets in central and northern Mozambique in an effort to force the government to allow the party govern the provinces it claims to have won in the 2014 general elections.  

Image source, AFP

One UN peacekeeper was killed in the grenade blast which targeted troops on a morning run in Goma, the main trading city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, regional   governor Julien Paluku has said. 

The UN has not confirmed the death, saying that more than 30 Indian peacekeepers were wounded in the attack. 

A child was also killed and three civilians were wounded in the blast, Mr Paluku was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying. 

The motive for the explosion is still unclear. 

See earlier post for more details 

Image source, AFP

China's Vice-President Li Yuanchao will visit Ethiopia next week in an attempt to take relations between the two countries to a new high, Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is quoted by the state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate (FBC). 

The visit comes at a time when a state of emergency is in force in Ethiopia to curb anti-government protests. 

Opposition groups are demanding more political freedom in a country ruled by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front since 1991.

China has invested near $1bn (£800m) in Ethiopia in the last five years, FBC reports, external.   

German Chancellor Angela Merkel also visited Ethiopia after the state of emergency was declared on 9 October, in a sign that the government still has the backing of the major foreign powers.  

Read: Can Chinese migrants integrate in Africa?  

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A 26-year-old man from Cameroon has been arrested in Germany, accused of helping to organise the departure of so-called Islamic State (IS) recruits to Syria, reports AP news agency. 

He is one of five people who have been arrested in co-ordinated raids in Germany, reports say.

All five men are suspected of recruiting jihadists for IS and providing help for their journey to the conflict zone. They deny any link to terrorism.  

The mosque in Hildesheim city, at the centre of the police raids, has been highlighted by authorities before as heavily involved in radical Salafist Islam.  

Read more on the BBC News website.

BBC World Service

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A court in Egypt has upheld a ruling that annulled a decision by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to transfer two islands to Saudi Arabia. 

The Administrative Court of the State Council rejected a government appeal against the earlier ruling by a lower court. 

It is the first of three courts that are considering the appeal. 

Mr Sisi's announcement that the Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir were to be given to Saudi Arabia provoked considerable opposition in Egypt. 

The Saudis have provided billions of dollars to support Egypt's faltering economy since Mr Sisi assumed power more than three years ago.

Image source, Reuters

A no-confidence motion against South Africa's President Jacob Zuma "has no chance of succeeding", a senior official of the governing African National Congress has said, Reuters news agency reports. 

The motion, sponsored by the main opposition Democratic Alliance, is due to be voted on in Parliament on Thursday in the latest bid to oust Mr Zuma  following the release of a report by the anti-corruption watchdog into allegations of corruption and influence-peddling in the government. 

On the ANC's Twitter account, the party's secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said:

Read: Zuma and his links with the Guptas

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

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Most South Africans I have spoken to, including governing party officials and lawmakers, are hoping that Hillary Clinton will be the next US president, defeating her Republican opponent Donald Trump. 

The view is that it will not only be good for South Africa - which has the most industrialized economy in Africa - but for the rest of the continent. 

South Africa has enjoyed a long history with the Clintons. Mrs Clinton has visited the country many times, before and after becoming Secretary of State. 

She, her husband Bill Clinton and their daughter Chelsea spent time with an ailing Nelson Mandela in his rural village of Qunu in Eastern Cape province when the late anti-apartheid icon celebrated his 94th birthday in 2012.  

On the other hand, no-one can recall seeing Mr Trump here.  

The Clinton Foundation has also supported many charities in South Africa, especially those fighting HIV/Aids. 

Mr Mandela flew to the US to lend his unconditional support to the Clintons in the wake of the Monica Lewinski scandal.

South Africans believe the Africa Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA), first signed into law by Mr Clinton, will remain in place if Ms Clinton wins. 

It helps African countries to sell their goods to the US market without tariffs, and creates jobs here. 

See earlier posts for more views from around Africa

Read: Beautiful country, ugly elections

This Kenyan cartoonist imagines an African observer mission might be disappointed with the US election:

Stay with us through the day as we'll be looking at how the US presidential election is being followed across Africa.

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has tweeted that he is leaving the country, despite efforts to stop him by the authorities:

Mr Besigye told the Daily Monitor yesterday, external that he was forced to cancel his original flight to South Africa on Tuesday because of a police blockade outside his home.

A police spokesman denied the allegation.  

Mr Besigye is due to address the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) Conference in Johannesburg on Thursday.

Read his profile on the BBC News website.