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And we leave you with picture of one our top shots from around the continent - this week of Nigerian Olufunke Oshonaike competing during the Women Single Table Tennis World Championship in Germany.

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While election fever builds in the UK, our Resident Presidents Olushambles and Kibarkingmad are watching with interest.

Listen to them unpick the candidate's policies:

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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, 93, has called on leaders vying to succeed him to keep their ambitions in check, saying their chance to lead will come.

Speaking at a youth rally in Marondera town, Mr Mugabe said:

He urged those seeking to succeed him to "be at peace":

Mr Mugabe's wife Grace Mugabe and his deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa are seen as jockeying to succeed him, causing huge divisions in the ruling Zanu-PF party.

Zanu-PF has, however, endorsed Mr Mugabe as its presidential candidate in next year's election.

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Equatorial Guinea has for the first time been elected to the UN Security Council during a vote that saw Ivory Coast, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Peru and Poland also win seats at the top world table.

Campaign group Human Rights Watch said it had concerns about Equatorial Guinea's presence on the council, as it had "a long history of harassing, arbitrarily detaining and interfering with the work of human rights defenders".

The oil-rich state, ruled by Teodoro Obiang Nguema for almost 40 years, was elected unopposed as an African representative on the council.

The Security Council is made up of 10 non-permanent members elected to two-year terms and five permanent powers: Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.

The elected countries - all of which were put forward by their regional grouping - will begin their term on January 1.

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Morocco's King Mohamed VI has cancelled plans to attend a summit of West African leaders in Liberia because of the presence of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the foreign ministry has said, AFP news agency reports.

The North African state is hoping to join the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) after the African Union readmitted it as a member in January after a 33-year absence, AFP adds.

Mohamed VI had been due to attend the summit in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, on Saturday and Sunday, but key members of Ecowas have decided to "reduce to the minimum their level of representation" because they disagreed with the invitation issued to Mr Netanyahu, the ministry said in a statement.

The king "wishes his first visit to an ecowas summit not take place in a context of tension and controversy", it added.

Mr Netanyahu is expected to attend the summit from Sunday as the head of a large diplomatic and economic delegation, his office said.

Burundian teenager Christa Vera Audrey Iteriteka, who sang a cover version of Beyonce’s ‘Halo’, has gone down a storm on social media, attracting more than one million likes on Facebook.

The secondary school pupil lives in central Burundi, from where she spoke to BBC Africa:

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South Africa's ruling party has called for an investigation into emails which appear to show allegedly corrupt links between President Jacob Zuma's family and wealthy businessmen.

The African National Congress (ANC) said the allegations questioned the credibility of the government and such matters could not be allowed to fester.

Mr Zuma recently survived calls for his resignation by some senior ANC members.

The allegations have been dismissed as a fabrication by Mr Zuma's lawyers.

The Gupta family of businessmen has said the leaks were "politically inspired".

One of the revelations of alleged links disclosed in the emails is that the Guptas helped the president's son, Duduzane Zuma, buy a $1.3m (£1m) apartment in Dubai.

In addition, the emails reportedly indicated that President Zuma was hoping to take up residency in the United Arab Emirates. A claim that was denied.

Read: Zuma, the great survivor

Uganda's central bank has waded into the discussion over a petition by a man who is trying to get a court to order for the exhumation of the body of local celebrity Ivan Ssemwanga (see previous post) after he was buried on Tuesday with wads of cash.

The bank tweeted that the money " which was so mishandled, is likely to be defaced, soiled or damaged, and thereby no longer serves the purpose".

It asked Ugandans to respect the currency:

Odeo Sirari
BBC Africa, Nairobi

A Ugandan man has filed a court petition to demand the exhumation of the body of flamboyant businessman Ivan Ssemwanga so that money he was buried with on Tuesday is retrieved.

The petitioner, Abey Mgugu, said the money which was dropped into the coffin as it was being lowered into the grave reflected wastage and was a violation of the socio-economic rights of Ugandans.

Mr Mgugu also wants the funeral company involved in the burial to be declared culpable by negligence for failing to ensure "respect" for money was maintained.

It is not clear how much money was buried but it is reported that Ugandan shillings, South African rands and US dollars were thrown into the grave.

Ssemwanga, who was 39 at the time of his death, was famous for his partying lifestyle. He led the so-called Rich Gang, a group of wealthy men in Uganda.

Local media reports that police have been guarding his grave, in case intruders try to exhume the body and steal the expensive coffin and the money.

A video of the burial was shared online:

Randy Joe Sa'ah
BBC Africa, Bamenda

Navy divers had been searching for the body of a missing Catholic bishop in River Sanaga in Cameroon, but it was a fisherman who found it floating downstream.

Bishop Jean Marie Benoit Balla of the Bafia Diocese in central Cameroon went missing three days ago, leaving his home just before midnight.

The 58-year-old's night watchman said he opened the gate for the bishop, wondering where he was going so late.

Sand diggers found the bishop's abandoned car the next morning on the bridge over River Sanaga, close to Ebebda, a small town west of the capital, Yaoundé.

Image source, Albert Njei

A suicide note, which said in French “I am in the water”, was found in the car. However, investigators are yet to determine if the bishop wrote it and under what circumstances.

A priest in the same Bafia diocese also died two weeks ago. He was found dead in his bedroom.

The bishop was said to have been very disturbed by the priest's death.

However, Bishop Samuel Kleda, who is the president of the National Episcopal Conference, said the two deaths were not linked.

Cameroonians are shocked, and prayers are being held in parishes across the country.

Bishop Faustin Ambassa Ndjodoof Garoua in northern Cameroon said the late clergy “was a wise man and a very accessible person. We have lost a very important man. It’s a great loss”.

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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has condemned sexual promiscuity, saying it has broken many homes.

Mr Mugabe, 93, was speaking at a rally in the small town of Marondera, east of the capital, Harare, to win the support of the youth ahead of elections next year.

The state-owned Herald newspaper and a journalist have tweeted details of the speech:

Democratic Republic of Congo Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga says an outbreak of Ebola which killed four people has been brought under control.

Mr Kalenga said a new case had not been recorded for 21 days - the maximum period between exposure to the disease and initial symptoms.

Health workers used an unlicensed American vaccine to stop the disease spreading in remote terrain in the north-east of DR Congo.

Read: Why Ebola is so dangerous

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Entrepreneur Sophia Grinvalds explains how she started her company after she tried to get sanitary pads in rural Uganda.

Grinvalds, co-founder of AFRIpads, says she was surprised to learn that it was accepted that girls should miss school when they had their periods.

She told the BBC that AFRIpads makes affordable sanitary pads:

The press secretary for Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has shared some colourful pictures of hairdressers who are part of a government initiative to empower young women.

The hairdressers, who were meeting Mr Museveni, adorned some unusual hair styles for the event with one spotting what looks like chicken feathers:

A search team has retrieved the body of missing Cameroonian Bishop Jean Marie Benoit Balla from River Sanaga, 7km ( 4 miles) away from the bridge where his car was found yesterday, authorities say.

He was the bishop of the central region of Bafia and had been missing for two days.

Some newspapers and social media sites are reporting that a suicide note was found in the car, but others are suggesting that he was murdered.

The exit of the UK from the European Union has businesses wondering how the move will affect trade.

The BBC's Karen Allen speaks to South Africa entrepreneurs to assess how they are preparing for the changes that will come with Brexit:

South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) says it's gravely concerned at the publication of emails which revealed alleged undue influence and corruption by the wealthy Gupta family on President Jacob Zuma's decisions.

The ANC said the claims questioned the credibility of the government and such matters could not be allowed to fester in the public domain.

At the weekend, the ANC's National Executive decided to retain Mr Zuma as party leader after considering his future at a closed-door meeting for the second time in six months.

Mr Zuma's successor is due to be formally chosen by the party in December.

Dr Talal Rahmeh was kidnapped in Syria and freed after paying $10,000 (£8,000) ransom. He then moved to Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, through a Lebanese relative.

He now runs a clinic beaming with activity, and is fluent in Creole.

BBC Focus on Africa's Umaru Fofana spoke with him:

Read: The Aleppo dentist who brings 'Hollywood smiles' to Somalis

At least 15 children have died in South Sudan after health workers used the same syringe to vaccinate them against measles without sterilising it, Health Minister Riek Gai Kok has said.

Another 32 have recovered after falling ill with symptoms including fever, vomiting and diarrhoea, he added.

The team that vaccinated the children "in this tragic event were neither qualified nor trained for the immunisation campaign", Reuters news agency quoted Dr Kok as saying at a press conference.

A committee of specialists found the children had died from severe sepsis toxicity as a result of the vaccine's contamination, caused by repeated use of an unsterilised syringe, Reuters reports.

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We reported earlier about an ongoing event to celebrate African hair in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.

The BBC's Chris Ewokor is at the event and is speaking to hair therapist Jayne Okoh about how to care for natural hair.

Watch it here: