Summary

  • Libyan passenger plane hijackers surrender

  • Taken into custody in Malta

  • All 118 passengers and crew freed

  • Hijackers 'allied' with Libya's late leader Gaddafi

  • Muslim clerics defied as Somali women play basketball

  • Senegal's army 'ready' to topple Jammeh

  • Nigeria tests show 'fake rice' is genuine

  • Tunisian Berlin attack suspect 'killed in Milan'

  • Email stories and comments to africalive@bbc.co.uk - Friday 23 December 2016

Live Reporting

Clare Spencer, Farouk Chothia and Hugo Williams

  1. Today's wise words

    Our African proverb of the day: 

    The eye is not a guest."

    A Nuer proverb sent by Deng Nhial Chioh, Juba, South Sudan, John Youhanes Magok, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Kam Lony, Malaysia

    Click here to send us your African proverb

  2. Good morning

    Welcome to BBC Africa Live where we will bring you the latest news and views from around the continent before we take a week-long break for Christmas.