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Botswana's parliament votes to give schoolgirls sanitary products
Chinese firm accused of toxic dumping in The Gambia
Nigerian policemen arrested over burglary at Goodluck Jonathan's home
Thieves in South Africa 'use donkeys to drag a car across a river'
Bolt anoints South Africa's Van Niekerk as his successor
Tributes pour in for South Africa's Mixon Tholo
Most of the refugees and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa who cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe have to travel for days in the Sahara desert on their way to Libya.
Many die on the journey in the desert.
Italian journalist Giacomo Zandonini has just returned from Niger where he spent a month meeting people walking through the Sahara.
He spoke to BBC Newsday:
Botswana's parliament has passed a motion calling on the government to consider giving free sanitary pads to girls in all state and private schools.
The move would improve access to education in a country where many cannot afford sanitary products, said MP Polson Majaga, who sponsored the motion.
MP Ngaka Ngaka backed the motion, saying one of the reasons why schools in his rural Takatokwane constituency were performing badly was that some some girls were forced to miss classes during their periods because parents lacked the money to buy sanitary pads for them.
The government has put up a Facebook post about the motion:
The push to give free santiary pads to schoolgirls comes after a similar decision was taken by Kenya's government in June.
A stolen Mercedes car was abandoned in the sand by the Limpopo River, which runs along the border of South Africa and Zimbabwe, after the donkeys that were being used to move it failed to get it out of the dry river bed, the Johannesburg-based Times Live news site, external reports.
It quotes a South African police spokesperson as saying that policemen were able to "pounce" on the thieves "after the donkeys were apparently no longer able to pull [the car] through the sand".
South Africa's police minister has been tweeting about the incident:
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Times Live reports that the suspects fled into Zimbabwe and "the donkeys were unharmed".
Many women in the developing world die during childbirth. A cheap kit containing a condom could save hundreds of thousands of lives.
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Image source, AFPSouth African athlete Wayde van Niekerk is set to take up the mantle of being the global star of athletics after the retirement of Usain Bolt, according to the Jamaican himself.
Bolt is due to retire from the sport after the World Athletics Championships, which start in London on Friday.
He has been the big draw at athletics championships since he dominated the 100m and 200m sprints at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
The BBC's Dan Roan asked Bolt who he thinks is now "best equipped to take your place as the preeminent star in track and field".
Bolt replied:
Quote MessageVan Niekerk is really proving that he is a world star.... He's proven that he can step up to the plate."
The South African won the gold in the 400m at last year's Rio Olympics in a world-record time of 43.03 seconds:
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He has also run the 300m faster than anyone, and will compete in the 200m as well as the 400m at the World Athletics Championships.
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Environmentalists from a small coastal town in The Gambia have taken a Chinese firm to court, accusing it of dumping toxic waste in the sea.
It comes after the government reached an out-of-court settlement with the company, Golden Lead.
Residents of Gunjur, about 50km (31 miles) south of the capital, Banjul, say that hundreds of dead fish have been washing up in a lagoon since Golden Lead set up a fish meal factory in the town in 2016.
They say people swimming there have suffered health problems. The company is contesting the allegations.
Golden Lead settled out of court with Gambia National Environment Agency last month over similar accusations.
Image source, ThiThe Gambia is a popular tourist destination
Tributes are pouring in for South African music star Mixon Tholo, popularly known as Tsekeleke, after he died last night in hospital.
A close friend of the musician, Max Mjamba, told the local Times Live, external news site that he begged for his life to end after doctors were forced to amputate parts of his body because of debilitating diabetes.
"He was crying and screaming like a baby," Mr Mjamba was quoted as saying.
"There was nothing more to cut," he added.
On Twitter, South Africa's culture minister has led tributes to the musician:
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Kwaito is a South African genre of music which emerged in the 1990s, it is a unique dance and house style often likened to US hip-hop.
With most songs being about street culture, it was the sound of South Africa's new found freedom from white minority rule.
The home of Nigeria's former President Goodluck Jonathan in the capital, Abuja, has been "stripped bare" by burglars, according to a statement from his spokesperson quoted by the Premium Times, external newspaper.
The burglary happened last month but Ikechukwu Eze said that he was releasing the details after questions from journalists.
He said the thieves "stole every movable item in the house including furniture sets, beds, electronics, toilet and electrical fittings, as well as all internal doors and frames".
But he wanted to correct false reports that 36 plasma TVs were stolen along with 25 refrigerators:
Quote MessageOnly six television sets, 3 refrigerators and one gas cooker were stolen."
A number of suspects, including six policemen, have been arrested, the former president's spokesperson said.
Image source, AFPGoodluck Jonathan was head of state from 2010 to 2015 when he handed over power to Muhammadu Buhari after losing the election.
Our African proverb of the day:
Quote MessageWhen two locusts fight, it is the crow that feasts."
An Igbo proverb sent by Okechukwu Iroegbu in Isuikwuato, Nigeria
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