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The Economist magazine, external says that while cutting money for aid plays well in US domestic politics, it may be harder to achieve than Mr Trump may think.

Cuts to funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), for example, "could cause millions of deaths", the magazine says.

The analysis says:

Deaths would follow quickly, the magazine says.

Watch: Five things about Aids in Africa

Hundreds of hopeful graduates have turned up to the offices of a Kenyan TV news channel in the capital, Nairobi, after it advertised vacancies for news anchors. 

It is not clear how many positions it is looking to fill, though one source told a BBC colleague in Nairobi that there were three presentation jobs up for grabs.

People have been sharing video showing the long queue snaking round the side of the building and all the way down the road:  

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King Mohammed VI of Morocco has announced that he's replacing the country's prime minister, following a failure to form a coalition government. 

A statement from the royal palace said that in order to break the current political deadlock, the king would appoint another member of the leading party - the PJD - as prime minister, replacing Abdelilah Benkirane. 

The PJD won the most seats in parliamentary elections in October 2016. 

It has failed to form a coalition despite five months of negotiations - the longest time Morocco has been without a government in recent history.

Piers Edwards
BBC Africa Sport, Addis Ababa

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This is huge - the end of an era.

It could a shift from what critics say was a closed shop to one which is now expected to be far more open. 

We can expect changes in governance, financial transparency and grass roots football under the new leadership of Madagascar's Ahmad.

Ahmad, who few had heard of before January, was very emotional afterwards.

He could hardly find the words to speak. 

He has managed to do what no one has ever done - beat Issa Hayatou, the man described by his critics as a football autocrat - in an election. 

The wind of change has blown very strongly today.

Humanitarian-focused news website IRIN has been looking at the potential impact of big cuts in US funding to the United Nations, external .

Its analysis says the US provides about $10.4bn (£8.5bn) to international organisations, of which $8.8bn goes to the UN.

Countries' spending on the UN is divided into assessed funding - which is obligatory - and voluntary funding.

Voluntary funding covers most emergency and humanitarian work and IRIN says that cuts to funding for the World Food Programme, the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) and the children's fund Unicef appear almost inevitable if Mr Trump's budget is approved.

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Naval forces from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in Somalia have exchanged gunfire with pirates who've hijacked an oil tanker, holding eight Sri Lankan crew hostage.

The director general of the maritime forcem Abdirahman Mohamud Hassan, said they tried to intercept a boat that was carrying food supplies to the hijackers, but the pirates on board the tanker fired at the naval forces and the supply boat escaped. 

The Aris-13 tanker is anchored near the coastal town of Alula. 

The ship sent out a distress signal on Monday, saying it was being approached by high-speed boats.

Read more: Is piracy coming back to Somalia?

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It's official. Issa Hayatou has lost the Cofederation of African Football (CAF) election. 

The new head of African football will be Madagascar's Ahmad:

BBC Africa's Farayi Mungazi has been around for decades himself, but even he thinks this is a landmark moment:

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The former leader of South Africa's main opposition party, Helen Zille, has apologised for comments she made on Twitter urging people not to focus only on the negative legacy of colonialism. 

Here are the initial posts which quickly led to her name trending on Twitter across the country:

Less than 90 minutes later, the former Democratic Alliance leader and current head of the country's Western Cape province had apologised "unreservedly" for her comments:

Some South Africans online have condemned her for ignoring the scale of human suffering caused by colonialism:

Frank Gardner
BBC Security Correspondent

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The hijacking of a merchant fuel tanker by pirates off the Somali coast this week has sent shockwaves through parts of the shipping industry.

It is the first successful hijacking of a major commercial vessel in the Somali Basin since 2012 and is prompting debate over whether shipping companies have become complacent about the risk of maritime piracy. 

So will this latest hijacking be a wake-up call that prompts more precautions being taken at sea or will it signal the start of a new wave of piracy? 

Worryingly, the factors that drove many Somali coastal fishermen to become pirates nearly a decade ago are still there. 

Somalia is currently in the grip of a famine and poverty is widespread; there are few employment options for young people. 

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Confederation of African Football president Issa Hayatou has called on the body to be united "whatever may be your decision" in the election.

Hayatou, who is attempting to win an eighth term in office, and Madagascar Football Association chief Ahmad are the two candidates for the presidency.

Many African federations have refused to say who they will back.

"Issa has never faced a challenge like this and he has had to call in some favours," one Caf executive member said.

Read the full story here

Delegates are choosing between Cameroon's Issa Hayatou, who has been in charge of Africa football for nearly three decades, and Ahmad from Madagascar, who has campaigned on a platform of administrative reform, financial transparency and a potential reorganisation of Caf competitions.

BBC Sport's Piers Edwards is at the congress in Addis Ababa: 

Read more:Battle at the top of African football

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A Christian pastor has discovered one of the world's largest uncut diamonds in Sierra Leone's Kono district.

The diamond, weighing 709 carats, is now locked up in Sierra Leone's central bank in Freetown. 

It is one of the 20 largest diamonds ever found.

Freelance, or artisanal, miners are common in Sierra Leone's diamond-rich areas, reports the BBC's Umaru Fofana.

But there are questions over whether the community will benefit from the discovery, he adds.

The diamond, which has not yet been valued, is the biggest to be discovered in Sierra Leone since 1972, when the 969-carat Star of Sierra Leone was dug up.

Sierra Leone is well known for its diamond industry but it has had a chequered history.

Diamond sales partly fuelled the country's decade-long civil war when rebel groups exchanged them for weapons.

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The Ghanaian government has defended itself against accusations of running an "elephant-sized" government, after new appointments announced on Wednesday, external brought the number of ministers and deputy minsters to 110. 

The ministries of Information, Energy, Agriculture and Local Government will each have three deputy ministers, if the appointments from newly-elected President Nana Akufo-Addo are passed. 

Opposition politician Haruna Iddrisu criticised the size of the government, telling local media that it would "feed" off the public purse.   

"We never promised a lean government," Information Minister Mustapha Hamid told media in response to the criticism. 

The size of the government was necessary to assist the president's ambitious development agenda, he added. 

Mr Akufo-Addo, from the New Patriotic Party, was elected on his third attempt to reach the post, after a campaign dominated by the country's faltering economy.   

Susan Murabana did not have an easy time following her passion for the planets growing up in Nairobi, Kenya. 

The country had no planetarium, few astronomers and access to a telescope was impossible. 

But now with her Travelling Telescope initiative she wants to inspire a new generation.

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US funding for international aid and development through the UN and its own agencies could be slashed to boost funding for the US military and plans to build a wall between the US and Mexico under President Trump's first budget proposals.

If approved by Congress, the proposals would see State Department funding cut by $10.9bn (£8.9bn) or 28% and Environmental Protection Agency funding cut by $2.6bn or 31%.

White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said the "core functions" of those agencies would be preserved - so the cuts would target foreign aid, grants to multilateral development agencies like the World Bank and climate change programs at the UN.

Some foreign military grants would be shifted to loans.

Cuts to other departments would also end foreign assistance programmes. Plans to cut funding to the Health Department specifically call for the end of a division that focuses on global health.

Meanwhile a 21% cut to the budget of the Agriculture Department would end a popular programme that helps US farmers donate crops for overseas food aid.

Mr Trump also wants to close a raft of independent agencies funded by tax dollars.

They including the US Institute of Peace, external - which works to prevent, mitigate and resolve violent conflict around the world - and the African Development Foundation, external  (USADF), which provides seed money and other support to African-owned and led enterprises in poor and vulnerable communities in about 20 African countries.

The USADF says it has committed $53.5m into 325 grants ranging from core agriculture sustainability and market programmes to work with young entrepreneurs, vulnerable populations and promoting off-grid electricity.

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