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Borussia Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is "staying at the club" says director Michael Zorc.

Aubameyang, 28, had been linked with a summer move to the English Premier League, external as well as Paris St-Germain and AC Milan.

The Gabon international netted twice on Tuesday as Dortmund beat AC Milan 3-1 on their pre-season tour of China.

After the game Zorc said: "We have decided that 'Auba' will stay with Borussia Dortmund. The transfer window is closed as far as he is concerned."

The transfer window in Germany closes at midnight (22:00 BST) on 31 August.

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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has said that South Africa "is in crisis" and that the governing ANC has "messed up".

The former wife of the country's first president, Nelson Mandela, was speaking to the BBC as the world marks Mandela Day, which commemorates his birthday.

She told Milton Nkosi that "something is very very wrong... with what we have done".

President Jacob Zuma has come under increasing pressure to step down from former allies within the ANC.

He has been criticised for his handling of the economy as well as the corruption allegations that he faces.

Mr Zuma will be replaced as ANC leader at the end of the year, but his presidential term comes to an end in 2019.

Thomas Naadi
BBC Africa, Accra

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Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo says he will not extend the International Monetary Fund three-year bail out, despite civil society groups urging the government to carry on with the programme.

President Akufo-Addo came to power in January on a campaign promise of turning the country's fortunes around. Today he said he will be judged on this:

He told journalists at an event marking his first six months in power that last Thursday he launched a $10m (£7.6m) entrepreneurship plan to help start ups.

He also noted that economic indicators are showing signs of improvement, including inflation which has reduced from 15.2% in December last year to 12.1% in June this year.

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A woman with leukaemia at the centre of a campaign to allow her donor Nigerian sister to come to the UK has died.

Martha Williams, 26, travelled to the UK to donate stem cells to 24-year-old May Brown.

The Home Office reversed a decision not to issue Ms Williams a visa after more than 60,000 signed an online petition.

The transplant was deemed a success in March. But the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust (ACLT) said Mrs Brown died on Friday following a relapse.

It added she passed away "surrounded by her loved ones".

Read more here.

Uganda's Ethics Minister Simon Lokodo is well-known for his pronouncements on homosexual and heterosexual sex, as well as what he believes are appropriate ways to dress.

Today, Uganda's parliament has been debating the safety of children and, in a tweet that's been retweeted on the official Uganda parliament's Twitter account, the minister appears to have said that the large majority of children become homosexual in school:

We were intrigued to learn more, but, at least according to the Twitter account, Minister Lukodo did not provide any evidence.

In 2015, the minister called for police to raid guesthouses used for "lunchtime sex".

The BBC Somali Service has just announced the inaugural winner of its Young Female Poet of the Year Award, in celebrations to mark its 60th anniversary.

Twenty-three-year-old Deeqa Nouh Yonis, a second year university student, beat over 100 others to win the coveted award.

Her winning poem is about the significance of pastoralism in the the Somali culture and its traditional food.

The contest was open to all those aged between 16 and 35 with no restrictions on their level of experience or location.

The winning poem will be read live on air later today.

Poetry is popular in Somali culture and BBC Somali, which was an audience of 3.6 million, hopes the award will boost the profile of a new generation of women poets as well as increasing the female audience for the service.

Zimbabwe will need $274m to fund next year's presidential and parliamentary elections, the Reuters news agency reports.

It says the head of the electoral commission, Rita Makarau, gave the figure while addressing a parliamentary committee.

The country is currently suffering a cash shortage but Ms Makarau said that she was confident that the money would be found, Reuters adds.

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President Robert Mugabe has been in power since 1980 and is set to run for another five-year term in 2018.

The agent of a late Cameroonian footballer has asked Fifa to train all players and coaches in how to treat victims of Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA).

Hasan Anil Eken, whose client Patrick Ekeng died in such circumstances last year, believes this could prove crucial in a battle to save a player's life.

"With this injury, every second is very important to save lives," Eken wrote.

Fifa says SCA victims have "a success rate of 90% for resuscitation" if correctly treated within two minutes.

This involves using an automatic external defibrillator, a device that sends a powerful electric shock to a heart to try to restore its natural rhythm.

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Cameroonian Ekeng died in May 2016 playing for Dinamo Bucharest in Romania. The ambulance that treated him had no defibrillator.

Since early June, two Ivorian footballers have died of suspected heart issues - Cheick Tiote and Eugene Kouame.

"Football players are the ones who are closest to (each other) - timing is important," Eken said in his letter to football's world governing body.

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Uganda police have arrested two men after they allegedly set fire to T-shirts with the image of President Yoweri Museveni on a street in the capital, Kampala, the Daily Monitor newspaper reports.

It adds that the two were part of a small group protesting against reported attempts to change the constitution which would allow the president to run for a sixth term in 2021 when he would be older than the current age limit of 75.

The Daily Monitor says the protesters shouted: “Museveni must go. His time is over and no one should tamper with the constitution.”

The two men were arrested for causing a disruption in the city, the paper adds.

Trade in bones and other parts of lions that are made to appear as tiger products is thriving in Chinese and South East Asian markets, a leading wildlife group says.

China's ban on the sale of tiger products has led to unscrupulous traders substituting them with lion parts, the UK-based Environment Investigation Agency (EIA) said.

South Africa is the largest exporter of lion parts to Asia, it added.

EIA is pushing for the trade to be banned, saying it encourages poaching.

It released its report, external as a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) begins in Switzerland.

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Cites allows limited trade on body parts of lions bred in captivity.

The South African government last month announced an export quota of 800 skeletons, causing concern among conservation organisations.

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The authorities in Liberia have closed down more than 50 companies selling drinking water in bottles and plastic sachets.

The public health authority said the water was not fit for human consumption.

It said some of the companies claimed to be producing mineral water when it was nothing of the sort.

Liberia's main water treatment plant was badly damaged during the country's civil wars.

It serves about a fifth of the population of the capital, Monrovia, leaving many residents dependent on bottled water.

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Over the past few weeks, crowd-control vehicles, guns and tear gas have been shipped into Kenya, reports Kenya's Standard newspaper, external.

This comes ahead of the general election on 8 August.

The newspaper reports at least a dozen new South Korean-made riot control vehicles arrived in Nairobi at the weekend.

It also says anti-riot gear including teargas canisters, batons, anti-riot wear and guns came through Mombasa port.

The newspaper adds that this "points to an assessment by the security forces that there could be violence after the announcement of the results".

Every week until the election the BBC's Dickens Olewe is taking an in-depth look at an aspect of the vote.

Listen to his latest programme.

South Africa has started to set up a series of radio telescopes far more powerful than any current ones in use around the world.

With their combined power they will look deeper into space than we have been able to see before and it will also search for extra-terrestrial activity.

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The BBC Somali service is celebrating 60 years since its first broadcast.

Today, it reaches an audience of four million people across radio, TV and online.

As part of the anniversary, the service has launched its inaugural poetry award for young women.

South Africa's former Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan - who was sacked in March - has called for President Jacob Zuma to step down.

It is believed that Mr Gordhan, who was widely respected in his role, was removed from his post because he was not seen as loyal to the embattled president.

And he has now used a speech on Mandela Day, external - marking the former president's birthday - to demand, for the first time in public, for Mr Zuma to go.

Times Live, external reports that Mr Gordhan's comments are "part of a growing chorus of anti-Zuma sentiment".

The South African president has faced corruption allegations and has been accused of breaching the constitution over his handling of a critical report on the state paying for upgrades to his private home.

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BBC Africa Sport

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The format and timing of the Africa Cup of Nations is up for discussion as a two-day symposium on the future of the continental game has got under way in the Moroccan capital, Rabat.

“That is the first thing to talk about - we can’t get away from it,” said Confederation of African Football (Caf) president Ahmad in his opening address.

The Nations Cup’s timing in January and February has long been a source of conflict for clubs in Europe, where many Africans play.

European clubs have long been angered by losing players during a crucial stage of the season to the Nations Cup, which sparks a club v country row every two years.

Compounding the clubs’ concerns is the fact that their players often come back fatigued from Africa’s flagship sporting event.

Ahead of this year's Nations Cup in Gabon, an unprecedented number of players turned down call-ups to stay with their clubs. This included seven Cameroonians who refused to turn out for the team that eventually won the title.

The finals could also be boosted from 16 teams to 24 - while a less likely switch is for the tournament to take place every four, rather than two, years.

Read more on the BBC Sport website.

Anne Soy
BBC Africa, Nairobi

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Nearly one in 10 infants worldwide did not receive any vaccination last year, putting them at a serious risk of contracting potentially fatal but preventable diseases.

A new report published by the World Health Organization and the UN children's agency, Unicef, says the rate of full immunization has stalled since 2010.

The report analyses immunization coverage in 194 countries across the world.

Eight countries, most of them in Africa, had less than half of their infants vaccinated last year. They include Nigeria, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Somalia and South Sudan.

This means that while some diseases such as measles and polio can now be prevented and potentially eliminated, there is still the possibility of outbreaks, leading to disability or death.

The uptake of recently introduced vaccines against leading childhood killers like pneumonia and diarrhoea is also low in many countries.

Unicef's Chief of Immunizations - Dr Robin Nandy - said bringing life-saving vaccines to the poorest communities must be considered a top priority.

Stanley Kwenda
BBC Africa

Democratic Republic of Congo’s young striker Britt Assombalonga has signed for championship side Middlesbrough from Nottingham Forest for a club record £15m ($20m) fee.

Assombalonga was highly sought after in both the Championship and Premier League because of his prolific goal scoring record.

He had a very successful spell at Forest where he scored 30 goals in 47 starts despite suffering from a spate of injuries.

He’s quoted as saying on the Middlesbrough club website, external that "the minute I walked in it felt right".

Assombalonga who recently pledged his international career to DRC even though he’s eligible to play for England, suffered a career threatening injury during the 2015-2016 season but bounced back last term scoring 14 goals in 20 starts for Forest.

He comes from a football family: his dad Fedor played for Zaire (now DR Congo) and his brother Christian turned out for Billericay Town.

Chris Ewokor
BBC Africa, Abuja

Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram has released a new video featuring 10 women thought to have been abducted last month when a convoy under police escort was ambushed.

The authorities had earlier denied that the women, some of whom are believed to be police officers, had been kidnapped.

And until the new video surfaced nothing was heard from the women.

One of the abductees who spoke in the video said she was a lecturer and five of the other women were public servants who she described as the breadwinners in their families.

The authorities in Nigeria are yet to react to the new video.