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And we leave you with this picture from The Gambia where President Adama Barrow, who won elections in December, has just flown in from Senegal to assume power:

Image source, Reuters

As Adama Barrow emerged from a plane at the airport in The Gambia to shouts of "Welcome! Welcome!" from the gathered crowd, the Associated Press news agency reports.

"I am a happy man today," the new president told Associated Press amid the crush.

"I think the bad part is finished now."

He promised to get his cabinet in place and "then get the ball rolling".

Eloise says that she was 12 when a Ugandan soldier, deployed to protect her town in the Central African Republic, attacked her:

Read more about an investigation uncovering allegations of rape and sexual exploitation of women and girls by Ugandan forces in the CAR in this feature by the BBC’s Catherine Byaruhanga.

Igo Weli, general manager for external relations at the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, has welcomed a court judgment barring 40,000 Nigerians from suing the oil giant in the UK (see earlier entries).

He told the BBC's Focus on Africa TV that it was a myth that people couldn't get justice in Nigeria:

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) has come under pressure this week over an alleged smear campaign.

The party is denying the accusation that it used fake news posters to discredit opposition parties such as the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) ahead of last year’s municipal elections.

This follows allegations by PR expert Sihle Bolani contained in court papers in which she is demanding a payment from the ANC for work she carried out ahead of the polls.

She said the ANC owed her money for a covert operation known as the “war room” aimed at discrediting the leader of the EFF, Julius Malema, in posters which portrayed the charismatic leader holding a machine gun.

Ms Bolani said the ANC did not honour its agreement to pay what was due to her.

The ANC’s Secretary General Gwede Mantashe has strongly denied that they ever employed Ms Bolani, saying she was a volunteer.

Both the EFF and the main opposition Democratic Alliance are threatening court action if the allegations are substantiated.

The country’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said it has noted the reports, which would have violated electoral laws.

The state of the roads has been pre-occupying Zimbabweans this week as rains wreak havoc creating potholes in the capital.

Zimbabwe's state-run Herald newspaper reported, external yesterday that the government had declared Harare's roads "a state of disaster".

It also ran an article reporting that cement roads were the answer to the problems as traditional asphalt was prone to cracking - and the city authorities were going to introduce them soon.

A Twitter account that reviews the country's media posted a photo today of road works taking place near the residence of President Robert Mugabe, who is out of the country on his annual holiday - but due home soon:  

A Gambian journalist has tweeted pictures of Gambian President Adama Barrow being welcomed at Banjul airport:

A Gambian journalist tweets that it is mainly West African forces that are guarding the airport where the new president has just landed:

Image source, AFP

There was lots of speculation in the hours before long-time Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh finally went into exile over the weekend about what deal he had struck with West African mediators.

UN regional envoy, Mohammed Ibn Chambas, is one person who should be able to answer this question as he was one of those trying to persuade him to leave the country. 

He told the BBC Focus on Africa radio presenter Akwasi Sarpong that Mr Jammeh didn't ask for any money or waivers or an amnesty.

He also said that he was not exiled indefinitely and it was now up to Gambians to decide whether they prosecute him:

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Sudanese opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi has returned home from two years in self-imposed exile:

Image source, AFP

Thousands of his supporters greeted him:

Image source, AFP

He gave a speech at a public square after leaving Khartoum airport, the Reuters news agency reports:

Mr Mahdi is a long-time rival of President Omar al-Bashir, who overthrew him in a coup in 1989.

A journalist at the airport in The Gambia, where a plane carrying  Adama Barrow from Senegal has just landed, has tweeted that a fighter jet from the West African force guaranteeing the new president's security is doing fly pasts:

Our reporter snapped a photo of the jet, though it looks a little like a bird:

A BBC reporter in The Gambia tweets:

When 14-year-old Uganda Benjamin Bagyema is not at school, teaches other kids how to make financial savings.

He's even become known as a motivational speaker for doing this. 

So the BBC's Victoria Uwonkunda in the capital, Kampala, asked him for some tips. 

Here's how to save $365 (£290) without even trying:

The killer question, of course, was if he himself had managed to save $365. 

He told our correspondent that he not only did that but he aims to make make $1m by the time he's 18.

Watch the whole interview in Facebook, external.

Image source, Alamy

BBC Facebook Africa, external readers have been paying tribute to Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta, who has died at the age of 72 (see earlier entry).

Her works included The Joys of Motherhood, Second-Class Citizen and The Bride Price.

Image source, Heinemann

She was known for championing women and girls in her writing, though famously rejected description as a feminist.  

As Gambians prepare to welcome Adama Barrow, their new president, to the country, some business people have been making and selling Barrow merchandise.

We're just getting these pictures of the people in Serekunda, south-west of the capital, Banjul, selling flags and posters:

Image source, Reuters

While in the same area, the T-Shirts are being made furiously saying "Gambia has decided", referring to the outcome of the election:

Image source, Reuters

A Gambian journalist has posted on Facebook that Senegal's President Macky Sall is seeing off his Gambian counterpart at the airport in Dakar:

Alastair Leithead
BBC Africa correspondent, Dakar

We've just boarded our plane at Dakar airport and it seems likely the man in the white robes getting a fanfare, walking a red carpet and then getting on another plane is the new President of The Gambia, Adama Barrow. 

I can't say for sure but it's a Senegalese military twin prop plane and it's just started taxiing.

Our reporter has tweeted a photo of the Gambians awaiting their new president at the airport:

US President Donald Trump is expected to announce immigration restrictions from seven countries with Muslim-majority populations in the Middle East and Africa. This could affect refugee programmes.

These countries are believed to be Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Iran  and Yemen.

A Kenyan cartoonist has penned his take on the anticipated policy change:

The AFP's West Africa correspondent has tweeted a photo of more preparations for President Adama Barrow's arrival at the airport in The Gambia: