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And we leave you with this picture from the streets of the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott.

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Saudi Arabia has extended the amnesty for illegal foreign workers for the second time, reports Ethiopian government-affiliated Fana website, external.

The amnesty, which Fana says has been extended by one month, means the Saudi government will not jail illegal immigrants who want to leave the country.

Tens of thousands of illegal workers in Saudi Arabia face forcible deportation after the amnesty.

Ethiopians make up one of the largest group of illegal labourers there - the authorities believe there are about 400,000 of them.

But Ethiopia says that only a fraction of its citizens working illegally in Saudi Arabia have returned home since the amnesty started in March. Only 60,000 have so far come back home despite the government paying for part of their airfare.

South Africa swimmer Chad Le Clos has won the 200m butterfly race at the World Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

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The 25-year-old won the 200m butterfly at London 2012 but was bitterly disappointed to finish fourth at the 2016 Games in Rio.

Watch the action live on BBC Sport.

Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo

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Residents in the central Mozambican district of Milange say the bodies of five bald men have been exhumed over the past three months for superstitious motives.

"The belief is that the head of a bald man contains gold," a local police commander named Afonso Dias told the BBC in June, after a spate of killings targeting bald men.

Milange's residents are calling on the government to intervene.

To this end, residents, practitioners of traditional medicine and former freedom fighters have all met an official from Mozambique’s National Institute of Heritage and Judicial Assistance (IPAJ).

IPAJ representative Antonio Gussi promised to channel their concerns to the relevant authorities, but also challenged the community members to reject any such "unacceptable" behaviour in future.

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One of the most notorious "warlords" in the Democratic Republic of Congo has surrendered to UN peacekeepers.

The UN mission in the DRC said Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka, who leads a militia known as the Mai-Mai Sheka, gave himself up near his stronghold in eastern DR Congo.

He will be handed over to the government which six years ago issued an arrest warrant against him for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes.

The UN and human rights groups have accused the militia and other armed groups of crimes including mass rape and hacking civilians to death.

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South African DJ Black Coffee is set to become the first African act to host a Beats 1 radio show.

When his show launches on Friday, the Durban-born house DJ and record producer will be following in the footsteps of Pharrell Williams and Dr Dre.

Apple-owned Beats 1 radio is a worldwide, online music streaming platform.

Speaking to South African news site IOL, he says he'll bring a distinctly African flavour to the station:

Black Coffee - whose real name is Nkosinathi Maphumulo - is currently playing to thousands of house fans on a summer residency on the Spanish island of Ibiza.

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The UK government has revised its travel advice for Tunisia where 31 Britons were killed in a terror attack at a resort in Sousse in 2015.

On 26 June 2015, student Seifeddine Rezgui opened fire on holidaymakers in the resort of Port El Kantaoui, killing 38 people in total.

For two years, travellers were told to stay away from the country for all but essential travel.

The Foreign Office has now lifted the advice for the capital Tunis and major tourist resorts, external.

Britons are still being warned to avoid parts of the south and interior, and the Algerian and Libyan borders.

The US, France, Italy and Germany had already relaxed their travel advice before the British government's announcement.

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The United Nations office in the Central African Republic (CAR) says escalating violence has forced international aid agencies to suspend operations in three towns - Bangassou, Kaga Bandoro, and Zemio.

Aid groups say the withdrawal of their services has left tens of thousands of people with too little to eat and no health provision.

A recent surge in violence, much of it sectarian, has pitted militia groups against each other.

They've also attacked humanitarian workers: three Moroccan UN peacekeepers have been killed in two separate attacks since Sunday.

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We reported earlier that the Nigerian senate has voted to reduce the lower age limit of the president.

This is part of a series of amendments to the country's constitution.

Nigeria's upper house of parliament has voted to weaken the power of the presidency and strengthen the legislature.

Members of the Senate approved a series of amendments to the country's constitution - including imposing time limits on key presidential decisions such as nominating ministers and proposing federal budgets.

If approved by the lower house and signed by President Mohammadu Buhari, it would be only the second time the 1999 constitution has been changed.

The lower house is set to vote on the amendments later this week.

A company in India gives its employees a day off when they are on their periods and has been calling on the government to make it law.

Zambia already has a law in place which gives women a day off when they are on their period.

So can India learn anything from Zambia?

BBC Minute heard mixed reviews of the law from women in Zambia's capital Lusaka:

Pallbearers are lifting the mood at funerals in Ghana with flamboyant coffin-carrying dances:

Families are increasingly paying for their services to send their loved ones off in style.

We reported earlier that researchers for Nigeria's state oil company(NNPC) have been kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants in the Lake Chad region.

Now the NNPC says one of a group of 10 people has been found alive. It gave no further details.

But this leads to the question, what were they doing in the region?

Jimeh Saleh from BBC Hausa explains to BBC Minute that they went on an expedition to look for oil in Lake Chad.

He adds that Nigerian oil exploration is mainly in the south of the county but the goverenment think there are huge reserves in the north.

Listen to him summing up the situation wtihin exactly a minute:

The Nigerian senate has voted to reduce the lower age limit to run for president from 40 to 35.

A tweet from the Senate's official account confirms the vote:

Some tweeters are sceptical of the result;

The news site the Cable points out,, external before the bill can become law it needs the endorsement of 24 state assemblies and presidential assent.

Nomsa Maseko
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

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An outspoken member of South Africa's ruling party, the ANC, has been charged with ill-discipline for speaking out against President Jacob Zuma.

Makhosi Khoza has repeatedly called for Mr Zuma to resign and has been an vocal critic of President Jacob Zuma and of corruption within the ANC.

In a statement released last week, the ANC said it believed Ms Khoza had crossed the line and must immediately face disciplinary action for speaking out against the president.

The party added that her comments were a “blatant betrayal of the core values of the ANC”.

Her comments have led to death threats being made against her and her family.

She received threatening text messages warning her to stop pushing for a secret ballot in next month's no confidence vote in Mr Zuma. One of the text messages said “do what is best for yourself and your family, you have 21 days to live”.

Police Minister Fikile Mbalula confirmed that Ms Khoza would receive protection from the state.

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Peace Delaly Nicoue, the youngest person to sit the Baccalaureate exam in Benin this year, has passed with top grades.

The shy 11-year-old told BBC Afrique he was “happy and relieved” to achieve 17 out of 20 in Maths because he plans to study economics at university.

While most students sit the Baccalaureate exams at the age of 18, Peace was given special permission by the government to take the assessment seven years early.

His schoolteacher father, Parfait Afoutou Nicoue, says Peace showed early signs of promise:

Peace’s next goal is to continue his studies in an English-speaking country.

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An EU court has upheld a 2015 decision by the European Council to freeze the funds of two companies accused of purchasing and selling "conflict diamonds" originating in the Central African Republic (CAR).

The Bureau d'achat de Diamant en Centrafrique (Badica) and its Belgian sister company Kardiam had challenged the decision.

International trade sanctions were first applied to CAR in 2013 when it was suspended from the Kimberly Process, an international certification scheme which works to prevent the sale of so-called conflict diamonds by armed groups.

In a statement today, external, the General Court of the European Union listed the grounds on which the European Council based its 2015 decision.

Both sides in CAR's civil conflict, the Seleka and anti-Balaka, profited from support given to them by Badica and Kadiam, it says.

Former Seleka forces "imposed taxes on aircraft transporting diamonds and received security payments from diamond collectors", according to the European Council.

It also says that traders involved in the trafficking of diamonds from CAR to foreign markets were operating on behalf of Badica in neighbouring Cameroon.

Chris Ewokor
BBC Africa, Abuja

The Nigerian state oil company NNPC says one surveyor from the group of 10 geological researchers kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants has been found.

Spokesman for the NNPC, Ndu Ughamadu confirmed to the BBC the surveyor Ibrahim Gildado was found alive but did not give further details.

Some of the security escorts who are local vigilantes were also found.

The geologists and surveyors of the University of Maidugiri were seized in an ambush near Jibi village in Borno state in the northeast of the country.

They were contracted to work on oil exploration in nearby Lake Chad.

The researchers were returning from Borno Yeso area of Magumeri along with their local vigilantes escorts when they ran into an ambush.

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South Africans have been paying tribute to government spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa who died at the weekend after having a stroke.

He was 56-years-old.

Tweeters have been sharing their memories using the hashtag #RIPRonnie:

The BBC's Milton Nkosi was at the memorial earlier today:

Eye Witness News reports, external that South African National Editors Forum's Sam Mkokeli used his speech at the memorial to urge other people who work in media not to use their positions to drive a racist wedge in their communities.

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Charges have been dropped against a 41-year-old Nigerian man who named his dog after President Muhammadu Buhari.

Joachim Iroko, a market trader also known as Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, was arrested in 2016 accused of conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace.

A judge in south-west Ogun state found the prosecution had failed to substantiate the charges against him.

The arrest sparked nationwide outrage. Critics accused the police of stifling constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.

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Nomsa Maseko
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

South African police have confirmed that there has been a break-in at the office of the chief public prosecutor in Pretoria.

This comes just two weeks after computers were stolen from the office of the National Director of Public Prosecutions.

Police say it is still unclear what was stolen but say the break-in occurred at Chief Prosecutor Matric Luphondo’s office in the Pretoria Magistrates Court where files on police investigations are kept.

The intruders gained access to the building by using a fire escape and climbing through a window which leads to a women’s bathroom.

Officials are calling this a serious attack on the state but did not say what the prosecutor had been investigating.

Earlier this month, the Pretoria office of the Director of Public Prosecutions was broken into and laptops were stolen.

Meanwhile police are yet to make arrests following a break in at Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s office where 15 computers in the human resources department were stolen in March.

They contained important information about South African judges.

Police cannot confirm if the incidents are linked but concerns have been raised around security of particularly high profile cases.