That's all from the BBC Africa Live page today. 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 this picture of a South African motocross rider wowing the crowd at celebrations for Lagos state's 50th anniversary in Nigeria. It's one of our top shots from this week.

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Ten motorcycle outriders, a convoy of 20 bullet-proof cars.

It's all necessary for our satirical President Olushambles to get from A to B.

But his counterpart President Kibarkingmad has started to wonder. What's so wrong with just walking?

Listen:

A lot of people have been reacting on the BBC Africa Facebook page, external to the comments from Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo that Africa's most dangerous problem is the high rate of youth unemployment (see earlier post).

Mr Obasanjo made the comments as an elder statesman taking a bird's-eye view of the continent, but the commenters on Facebook are not very sympathetic and see the former leader as part of the problem:

Anengiyefa Alagoa says:

Akpoka Desmond Akpoka says:

Olagunju Kayode says:

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Tanzanian entrepreneur Lillian Makoi was inspired to look into health insurance when her maid’s husband died in a car accident.

She told the BBC’s Sammy Awami that he didn’t die because of the car accident, it wasn’t a bad crash. He died because he couldn’t pay $25 to access the hospital care.

This spurred her on to look into health insurance for people on low incomes and found a big gap in the market in the form of millions of uninsured Tanzanians.

The big insurance players told her the administration costs make it impossible to provide health insurance to people earning less than $100 a month.

Listen to her explain on Focus on Africa how she found a way to charge $1 a month for health insurance:

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

Three people have been seriously injured by what is believed to be a parcel bomb in the South African coastal city of Durban.

The bomb exploded after it was delivered to a house in an upmarket part of the city.

Police and emergency services were still on the scene on Friday afternoon.

Captain Nqobile Gwala from the South African Police Service said the people were injured when they opened the parcel. They have all been taken to hospital.

Police are investigating the motive behind the explosion.

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Eighty-two of those kidnapped from Chibok in Nigeria in 2014 were released earlier this month. They were part of group of girls kidnapped by the Islamist militants Boko Haram.

The release of the 82 came with a price, the BBC's Alastair Leithead and Stephanie Hegarty have found.

The details of the deal are sketchy.

But they report that five senior Boko Haram militants were moved from a high security unit to be driven to freedom.

Our correspondents' sources don’t want to be named and their version of events is hard to confirm, but they say the men were high-level Boko Haram bomb makers, and that they were accompanied by two million euros in cash.

Governments rarely admit to paying a ransom, and this claim could not be independently verified.

Read our in depth analysis of the fate of the Chibok girls.

The Twitter handle for South Africa's Police Minister Fikile Mbalula has been trending in the country today as people share what appears to be a desperate cry for help from an abused woman.

It comes as the spotlight has been thrown on the high number of women being murdered in South Africa following the killing of 22-year-old Karabo Mokoena. Her former boyfriend has been arrested in connection with her death.

One Twitter user compiled some of the woman's messages and tagged the minister in a tweet. She alleges that her boyfriend is trying to kill her.

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The minister responded by asking for help in getting in touch with the woman:

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Later he said contact had been made:

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Muhammad Kabir Muhammad
BBC Africa, Abuja

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Nigeria's acting President Yemi Osinbajo has warned officials caught soliciting for or receiving bribes for visas will be sacked and prosecuted.

He said this as he signed three executive orders that aim to radically speed up the notoriously slow Nigerian bureaucracy.

One of the orders instructs all government agencies to publish all requirements or conditions for obtaining their services or products, including permits and licences on their websites.

It also says all applications for business registrations, certification, waivers, licenses or permits not concluded on time shall be deemed approved.

This could radically change how things are done in Nigeria.

Currently, when you apply for anything from Nigerian officials, you either pay bribes to get it done as quickly as possible or you wait for the bureaucratic wheel to complete its sluggish turn at an indeterminate period in future.

It sounds like a surreal dream: former heavyweight world champion Evander Holyfield in the ring with ex-Lagos state governor Bola Tinubu and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka is the referee.

But - according to the event organisers - this is really going to happen next week.

#RumbleInLagos has been trending on Twitter in Nigeria today as people discuss the fight.

Mr Tinubu is quoted as saying that he "can't wait to knock Evander down".

The event is part of the Lagos@50 celebrations and is intended to raise awareness of various medical conditions:

A Mozambican man has been jailed for 19 years after he handed over his daughter as a child bride to pay a bar debt of 600 meticais (£6.90; $10), reports Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias.

The man who accepted the girl was given the same sentence, the newspaper adds.

The article goes on to say an NGO found out about the girl and took her in.

The sentence was handed out by a court in Manica, close to the border with Zimbabwe, on 18 April but took a month to come to light, Lusa news agency adds.

The unemployment rate among Africa's large youthful population is potentially dangerous, Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo told the BBC.

"We are all sitting on a keg of gunpowder," he said in an interview with Africa Business Report when he was talking about his greatest fear for the continent.

He estimated that 60% of the continent's population is under the age of 25 and half of those do not have a job.

He suggested that a better education system was one of the answers to the problem.

His comments came in a candid interview about the state of both Africa's and Nigeria's economy and politics.

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A Nigerian oil workers' union has called a strike over 150 workers who were sacked in December, a union member told Reuters news agency.

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (Pengassan) union called for the shutdown of all Exxon Mobil Corp facilities in the Niger Delta.

Reuters was unable to verify whether union members had shut down the company's facilities and oil sources told them there had been no impact on production.

Madubuezi Azubuike, who chairs the union in Rivers state, said the call followed the breakdown of talks with the company over sackings and was part of a strike that began last week.

Italy's first black minister has said she feels "vindicated" after winning a four-year court battle against a far-right MEP who made repeated racist slurs against her.

Mario Borghezio has been ordered to pay Cécile Kyenge 50,000 euros ($55,690; £42,895) by a court in Milan.

Among other comments, Borghezio said she "took away a job from an Italian doctor" in a 2013 radio interview.

The Northern League MEP must also pay Ms Kyenge's legal fees.

Ms Kyenge, who was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, told the BBC's Newsday radio programme: "At the end of the day this is a strong message against impunity. those who believe there is no justice should think twice.

Read more from BBC News Online.

Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Mali to meet French troops, less than a week after his inauguration as France's president.

Mr Macron's plane touched down at a French airbase in Gao in the north of the country just before 10:00 GMT (11:00 BST).

French soldiers have been fighting Islamic militants in the north of the former French colony since 2013.

He has been tweeting tributes to those troops.

This says French troops will continue fight alongside Mali.

He also said that France will be uncompromising in its struggle against Islamist militants in the country.

He was greeted in Gao by his Malian counterpart, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita,

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Thousands of French soldiers have been fighting jihadists in the Sahel region since 2013, when they led a military intervention to drive out Islamist groups that had seized large parts of Mali.

But attacks by militants continue, killing 300 people last year.

Read more on the BBC News website.

Ferdinand Omondi
BBC Africa, Nairobi

We've been reporting on the death of a politician linked to the raids on private ranches in Kenya (see earlier entry).

Police believe the body retrieved from a river this morning belongs to Thomas Minito, who was being investigated for possible involvement in the shooting of Italian-born Kenyan conservationist Kuki Gallman.

The body was found floating in a river in Machakos county, 50km east of the capital, Nairobi.

Police said they identified him from the documents found in his pockets and they think he was murdered because of an injury they have observed to his head.

But his family is yet to confirm the identity.

Mr Minito was arrested on 30 March and accused of inciting violence in Laikipia county, including raids on private ranches.

Ms Gallmann was shot in an attack linked to that violence.

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BBC World Service

A church panel in South Africa has warned that corruption is fast turning the country into a mafia state.

Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana, the head of the influential South African Council of Churches (Sacoc), said President Jacob Zuma's government had lost its moral legitimacy.

The Reuters news agency quotes him as saying:

Sacoc has been carrying out a commission looking into corruption in the country and witnesses told commissioners that government officials around Mr Zuma had diverted budgets, rigged tender processes and tailored regulations to benefit a select few.

The church council said it would send its findings to the governing African National Congress.

Last year, a report by the country's anti-corruption investigator found evidence of possible corruption at the top level of Mr Zuma's government.

The president has launched a legal process to challenge the findings.

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There has been another jail-break in the Democratic Republic of Congo two days after more than 3,000 inmates escaped from the country's main jail.

This time, about 60 people broke out of Kasangulu prison, some 40km from the capital, Kinshasa.

The jail is located in the heartland of the Bundu Dia Kongo religious sect.

In the previous incident, the sect's jailed leader was among those who escaped when armed men attacked the prison.

The authorities are discussing the possibility of deploying the military to guard jails.

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New Ivory Coast coach Marc Wilmots has persuaded Salomon Kalou to come out of international retirement.

Hertha Berlin's Kalou quit the Elephants after the defending champions crashed out of the Africa Cup of Nations this year.

Wilmot had also persuaded four former France youth internationals to swap national allegiances and play for Ivory Coast.

Ivory Coast face the Netherlands in a friendly on 4 June and Guinea in a 2019 Nations Cup qualifier five days later.

Read more on the BBC Sport website.

Patience Atuhaire
BBC Africa, Kampala

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The Uganda Minister for Communications Frank Tumwebaze has warned that all unverified Sim cards will be switched off midnight tonight.

This is in spite of a motion passed in parliament to extend the deadline.

He says voice services on unverified Sim cards will first be turned off, but mobile money services will stay on for people to withdraw any credit they have may if they don't intend to have that Sim card verified.

Mr Tumwebaze says at least 92% of all active Sim cards had been submitted for verification by close of business yesterday.

Long queues were seen on Thursday in parts of Uganda's capital Kampala as people were trying to get national identity cards to be used to verify the Sim cards.

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The number of suspected Ebola cases in Congo has risen to 29, up from 21, Reuters News agency reports World Health Organization spokesman Christian Lindmeier as saying.

Three people have died so far and 416 peolpe who may have had contact with sufferers were being chased up in case they also developed symptoms, he said.

People began to get sick on or after 22 April in Bas-Uele province in the country's far north.

The region affected lies 1,300km (800 miles) north-east of Kinshasa, close to the border with the Central African Republic, in a remote forested area.