Summary

  • Nigeria's president absent from Friday prayers

  • Ethiopia invites the head of the UN rights office for a visit

  • Manchester United to honour Nigerian fans who died in Calabar accident

  • Tanzania has 'nearly 10,000 civil servants with fake school certificates'

  • President Magufuli moves to sack them

  • Nigeria's Lagos state government has found 237 abandoned babies over past year

  • UN peacekeeper in DR Congo accused of fathering a child with minor

  • Pope Francis is in Egypt on his second African trip

  • Email stories and comments to africalive@bbc.co.uk - Friday 28 April 2017

  1. Good morningpublished at 08:58 British Summer Time 28 April 2017

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