That's all from the  BBC Africa Live  page this week. Keep up-to-date with what's happening across the continent by listening to the  Africa Today podcast  or checking the  BBC News website . 

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And we leave you with one of our   top shots from across the continent this week  this picture of a fruit vendor in Ivory Coast's economic capital, Abidjan. 

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#HelpFindDurbanBaby, external is trending in South Africa, with people sharing the photo of a one-month-old baby who was in a car that was hijacked in the port city of Durban earlier today:

The baby's mother and an eight-year-old child were booted out of the car by the hijackers, who then drove off.

A police spokesman says they have officers searching for the baby, including a dog unit.

An outbreak of cholera in South Sudan has reached the country's second-largest city of Malakal, which has been ravaged by the three-year civil war, the Associated Press agency reports. 

The number of cases are reported nationwide to have risen to 5,500. 

Cholera now has been confirmed in 14 counties, with at least 137 deaths since June.

An ongoing civil war and drought in the country has complicated the aid response especially in the northern county of Mayendit where local authorities told aid workers late last month to leave the area because of fighting, Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesman for the UN chief, is said to have told reporters on Friday. 

Cases of cholera have also been reported in Somalia, which is also facing a hunger crisis, with at least 200 fatalities reported so far this year (see earlier report).

Cholera is a fast-developing, highly contagious infection that can spread in areas without clean drinking water and with poor sanitation.

Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo

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An illegal Chinese company has been discovered exporting prawns from Mozambique.

The fisheries authorities in the central province of Sofala say they have seized almost a tonne of top quality tiger and queen prawns from the firm.

Also seized 80kg of processed crabs from Nova Praia in the port city of Beira.

The produce was being packaged in freezers for export by Chinese nationals, Carlos Sindela, the provincial director of fisheries, said.

They refused to talk to the media, saying the owner of the business was away in China.

The illegal firm was using the site of a former fisheries firm that went bankrupt.

In the last decade, fishing companies have been hit first by the collapse in the price of prawns and also by the increase in fuel prices.

In addition, the government has restricted the amount companies can catch because prawn fishing was reaching it exploitation limits.

About 11 companies have gone bust in recent times.

According to Mr Sindela, the Chinese firm was not registered, which meant it was not paying tax:

He added that the alleged criminals would be duly penalised, which is likely to involve a heavy fine.

Africa now has the unique web address .africa, equivalent to the more familiar .com, following its official launch by the African Union.

AU commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma hailed its creation as the moment when Africa "got [its] own digital identity".

The AU says the .africa domain name will "bring the continent together as an internet community".

Addresses can now reflect a company's interest in the whole of Africa.

For example, a mobile phone company could create mobile.africa to show its Africa-wide presence, or a travel company could set up travel.africa.

Read the BBC News story for more

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Supporters of South Africa's opposition party Democratic Alliance (DA) have today held a demonstration in support of state welfare payments which have been mired in uncertainty.

The government has failed to appoint a new company to distribute the funds next month. The current distributor's contract ends on 31 March.

DA party leader Mmusi Maimane, who led the protest outside the offices of South Africa Social Security Agency (Sassa) in the capital, Pretoria, said millions stand to lose their benefits:  

Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini told reporters on Sunday that payments would continue, despite ongoing confusion over how they would be made.  

Sassa pays out around 140bn rand ($10.7bn; £8.7bn) a year in grants to vulnerable people including pensioners, unemployed mothers and disabled people.

"No-one will go unpaid. We are sure about that," she said.

In 2014, the constitutional court found that the contract awarded to private company CPS was not lawful.  

Sassa is responsible for distributing social grants to 17 million South Africans.

Ibrahim Haithar
BBC Monitoring

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South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has prayed for forgiveness for what he described as sins he may have committed while exercising his duty as the head of state, reports the privately owned Eye Rdio FM website, external .

Today was declared a national holiday in the country so that a national day of prayer could be held.

The prayers were held at a gathering in the capital, Juba, at the mausoleum for John Garang, the man considered the father of South Sudan:

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President Kiir also called for redemption of the people of South Sudan from the many troubles bestowed on the country:  

South Sudan seceded from Sudan in 2011, but two years after independence the world's newest country descended into civil war.

Tens of thousands of South Sudanese have fled their homes and ethnic violence continues despite a regional peace initiative.

Last month, famine was declared in some parts of the country.

A broadcaster in Tarmacadam has tweeted videos and images of a dam that has burst flooding a village near the capital, Antananarivo, following Cyclone Enawo that hit the Indian Ocean island this week.

Five are known to have died when Enawo dumped 12 inches of rain across north-east Madagascar in 12 hours on Tuesday, with winds reaching up to 300km/h (185mph).

Watch Nigerians in Lagos react to the return of President Muhammadu Buhari from extended sick leave:

A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo region of Beni has sentenced nine rebels to death for the killing of 1,000 civilians since October 2014 in the eastern region, the AP news agency is reporting.

Presiding judge Jean-Paulin Esosa Basema reportedly said that they had been prosecuted for crimes against humanity, terrorism and participation in a rebellion

Two others on trial were acquitted and another transferred to a court for minors.

They are members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a rebel group that was founded in neighboring Uganda but is now based in DR Congo.   

The ADF rebels are among scores of armed groups vying for control in mineral-rich eastern DR Congo.   

This week the Resident Presidents are musing about using VX nerve agent, that was used to kill Kim Jong-nam the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, at a Malaysian airport in February. 

Listen to Presidents Olushambles and Kibarkingmad's satirical take on what they would do if they could get their hands on the lethal chemical weapon:

Sweep South, a South African startup, has tapped into the country's domestic work industry - by pairing registered domestic workers with cleaning opportunities. 

BBC Africa Business Report presenter Lerato Mbele looks at how the technology is changing domestic work scene:

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Aid agency Save the Children is warning that an outbreak of cholera in Somalia has reached crisis levels and is calling for international support to deal with the crisis.

It says that at least 200 deaths have been recorded from the 8,400 cases that have been confirmed this year.

Somalia is currently experiencing severe drought which has made the situation worse. 

Cases of pneumonia among children and adults have also been registered in 72 clinics in the Puntland region. 

Officials at the aid agency say that the scale of the suffering is even greater than at the equivalent stage in 2011, before a famine was eventually declared. 

At least 6.2 million people, around half of the population, are in urgent need of support, the agency says.

It has made an appeal for $824m (£677m) to stop, "the drought becoming a full blown disaster".

Image source, Save The Children

Image source, Save The Children

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Zimbabwe's Tanya Mushayi describes herself as an accidental designer. She began by making her own dresses and posting the pictures online.

Those that liked her designs began asking her to make them similar outfits and that is how her fashion label Tanya Nefertari began.

Zimbabweans in the diaspora are particularly good customers, as the BBC's  Africa Business Report  reports:

A farmer in South Africa in court this morning for shooting and wounding one of his workers with a pellet gun has denied mistaking the man for a monkey, a journalist for the public broadcaster SABC reports.

On Thursday, police said the farmer in Letsitele, in Limpopo province, had shot at Mathanene Ismael when he was returning from a storeroom on a bicycle, claiming he had thought he was a monkey.

The police reportedly said today they not believe the case was racially motivated:

The SABC journalist says the farmer was granted bail of 5,000 rand ($378, £311).

According to News24, in KwaZulu-Natal, an 87-year-old man appeared in court on Monday for allegedly shooting and killing a 12-year-old boy he apparently mistook for a monkey.

The boy had reportedly climbed a guava tree on the man's property in Braemar on Sunday. 

Archaeologists have said a figure found submerged in water in a Cairo neighbourhood may depict Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.

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South Africa's foreign ministry has confirmed that the charges against a South African man and his Ukrainian fiancee, detained in the United Arab Emirates for having unlawful sex as they were not married, have been dropped, News24 reports, external .

Emlyn Culverwell‚ 29, and Iryna Nohai, 27, were arrested in January when Ms Nohai was taken to hospital with stomach cramps and was found to be pregnant. 

The self-declared republic of Somaliland has called on the United States to recognise its independence and to exclude its citizens from the recent travel ban that excludes citizens of six mainly Muslim countries, including Somalia, from travelling to the US for 90 days. 

Saad Ali Shire, the breakaway region's foreign minister, said in a statement:

Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 when the overthrow of military ruler Siad Barre plunged the country into civil war.

US President Donald Trump signed the executive order on Monday - and it comes into force on 16 March.

His previous travel ban order, signed in January, was blocked in federal courts and sparked mass protests as well as confusion at airports.

Read more: Somaliland - making a success of independence

MPs in Mauritania’s lower house of parliament have voted to change the country flag’s to include two red bands to represent the blood shed during the fight to end colonial rule from France, the AFP news agency is reporting.

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The current green flag has a crescent and star symbolising the importance of Islam to the country:

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The lawmakers also decided to get rid of the Senate, which must now vote on these constitutional amendments.

The ruling party has a majority in both the lower and upper chamber, AFP reports.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari will return to work on Monday according to a tweet by an adviser. 

Mr Buhari who returned from UK after a seven week medical leave joked that he had returned deliberately on Friday so that Vice-President  Yemi Osinbajo could be in charge over the weekend.