A group of South African dancers, The Lions of Zululand, took a UK school by surprise when they turned up at the wrong address.

The group gave two performances to pupils at St Anne's in Welton, East Yorkshire but should have been at a school in London.

Teachers and pupils at the school were happy to be treated to an unplanned and enjoyable performance:

Renowned architect Francis Kéré has become the first African to design the prestigious Serpentine Pavilion in London.

He explains why a desert tree from his home country Burkina Faso was the inspiration for his design:

Matthew Davies
Editor, BBC Africa Business Report

Tourism in Africa is experiencing significant growth, adding jobs to economies and money to national coffers, according to a new report.

There has been a tremendous leap in intra-African travel with Africans holidaying in other African countries.

The annual Economic Development Report on Africa from the UN's Conference on Trade and Development, or UNCTAD, shows that international visitor numbers to Africa have more than doubled since the late 1990s and are still growing.

But one of the most intriguing facts to emerge from this year's report is that African tourism is being driven by Africans themselves - two out of three international visitors to sub-Saharan countries come from within Africa itself.

Currently, tourism accounts for nearly nine percent of the continent's economy - but analysts say it could be much more, if governments liberalised air transport and further relaxed visa regulation.

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A controversial Ugandan pastor, Aloysius Bugingo, has been summoned by a court in the capital, Kampala to defend himself against allegations that he burned copies of the Bible, the privately-owned Monitor newspaper, external and NBS TV, external are reporting.

Wameli Anthony Yeboah, the lawyer representing one of the complainants who took Pastor Bugingo to court said in court that the action abused objects of worship:

Pastor Bugingo has in the past denied allegations of burning bibles.

However his own television station Salt TV has aired recordings of him calling for certain copies of the Bible to be destroyed.

This is how some Ugandan TV stations have tweeted their reports:

A day before Zambia's President Edgar Lungu initiated a process that could see the southern African nation under a state of emergency law, he told reporters that he would take "unprecedented measures to deal with a recent spate of arson attacks. So if I become a dictator for once bear with me," Mail and Guardian, external reports.

According to his office, he signed an executive order last night that kicks off a process that would see the emergency law imposed.

The measure comes after fire gutted Lusaka's City market on Tuesday, an incident that the government blamed on arsonists.

He said that peace and tranquility in Zambia had been eroded by “unpatriotic citizens”; and that, as a result, he had no choice but to invoke Article 31 of the Constitution.

He said that those who obey the law will not be affected:

Under Zambian state of emergency laws, police can prohibit public meetings, close roads, impose curfews and restrict movements, Reuters news agency reports.

The statutory instrument is likely to be passed by parliament to bring in the emergency law.

Already opposition parties are weakened in parliament after 48 members of the main opposition party United Party for National Development (UPND) were suspended last month after boycotting Mr Lungu’s State of the Nation Address.

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A truck carrying goods and passengers crashed in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Wednesday killing almost 80 people.

Reports say the vehicle was overloaded and speeding. The truck was packed with traders on their way to a weekly market outside the town of Bambari, in the centre of the country, when it tipped over.

One local resident said he often saw dangerously overloaded vehicles, with people perched on them like birds. He said the authorities did nothing to stop them travelling on the country's neglected roads.

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Tomi Oladipo
BBC Monitoring's Africa security correspondent

It is 50 years since Nigeria's brutal civil war calling for the secession of Biafra started. By the time it ended in 1970 over one million people had died. Now a new movement has emerged calling for independence.

Nnamdi Kanu founded the Indigenous People Of Biafra (Ipob) in 2014 which is pushing for the secession of Biafra.

At the end of the war in 1970 the Igbo separatist leader General Yakubu Gowon declared there was "no victor, no vanquished" - this became the motto of reunification.

But for many people in the south-east, the reunion has been an uneasy one.

And it's a common perception in the region - that Igbo people are marginalised in a Nigeria that only serves the interests of the two other main ethnic groups - the Hausa and Yoruba.

Now the people of the south-east are left with a choice to either stick with their current leaders - and Nigeria - or choose a much less certain path.

For more read: 'Nigeria treats us like slaves' - but is Biafra the answer?

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Amnesty International has blamed "failing EU policies" for the soaring death toll among refugees and migrants in the central Mediterranean.

In a report, it said "cynical deals" with Libya consigned thousands to the risk of drowning, rape and torture.

It said the EU was turning a blind eye to abuses in Libyan detention centres, and was mostly leaving it up to sea rescue charities to save migrants.

More than 2,000 people have died in 2017 trying to get to Europe, it said.

The EU has so far made no public comments on Amnesty's report.

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Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu is taking steps that could lead to a state of emergency following Tuesday’s fire at Lusaka city market.

The fire followed other suspected arson attacks on public buildings. Mr Lungu said the latest fire was an attempt to make Zambia ungovernable and that he would not tolerate such “lawlessness”.

However, his spokesperson denied reports that an emergency had been declared.

Critics say it is not clear who is behind the fires and accuse the president of an alarming slide towards authoritarianism. Opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema is currently facing treason charges after his convoy refused to give way to the presidential motorcade.

The city market was gutted in a blaze that began at dawn and destroyed property worth millions of kwacha.

Is Zambia's democracy on trial?

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is expected to issue a ruling today over South Africa’s failure to arrest Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir during his visit to the country two years ago.

President Bashir is charged with genocide in connection with the conflict in Darfur.

President Jacob Zuma’s government has argued that the ICC's demands were in conflict with the country's diplomatic immunity law and that it has launched a move to withdraw from membership of the court - something that rights groups have criticised.

South Africa’s High Court has also ruled that the government had gone about the withdrawal process unconstitutionally, having failed to consult parliament.

Yesterday, the governing African National Congress (ANC) said that it still plans to withdraw the country from the ICC.

This is part of a broader push by some African governments against an institution that they argued was unfairly targeting the continent and its leaders.

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