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We leave you with this picture of a pitch invader hugging England International Wayne Rooney during a pre-season friendly match between Everton and Kenyan club Gor Mahia in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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Wayne Rooney marked his Everton debut in style by scoring a stunning goal in the 34th minute, helping his new club beat Kenya's top side Gor Mahia in a pre-season friendly played in Tanzania's National stadium in Dar es Salaam.

Gor Mahia's Jacques Tuyisenge equalised four minutes later but Everton's Kieran Dowell scored the winner in the 83rd minute.

Watch Rooney's goal below:

We reported earlier that Kenya's The Star newspaper said six kidnapped Kenyan government officials had been rescued by the army.

But now the Kenyan newspaper the Daily Nation has a conflicting report saying that three people have been shot dead:

The group had been travelling in Milihoi in Lamu country when they abducted by suspected al-Shabab Islamist militants, reports say.

Tomi Oladipo
BBC Africa security correspondent

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Scientists researching birds and turtles in Seychelles have found two pieces of debris that seemed to be from an aircraft, Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) told Reuters news agency.

"The direction of flow of the sea currents make it likely that the [debris] came from the general direction where other parts [of MH370] have been found in Indian Ocean countries," a senior SCAA official told Reuters.

The Seychelles authorities have told Malaysia, whose Flight MH370 vanished in 2014 with 239 people aboard, Reuters adds.

Michael Payet, a spokesman for the state agency that manages all Seychelles islands, told Reuters that the largest of the two bits of debris was about 120 cm (3.94 feet) long and 30 cm (one foot) wide and appeared to be made of aluminium and carbon fibre.

"It could be part of an engine cover," he told Reuters.

Read more: Is it likely that MH370 will ever be found?

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

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Three lions have been shot and killed outside the Kruger National Park in South Africa.

Spokeperson for the South African National Parks, Janine Raftopoulos, told me late last night a local farmer found three lions feeding on one of his cattle. He shot and killed one and wounded another.

The third escaped but it was found and killed by the search party of rangers. They also put down the one wounded by the farmer, she said.

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We reported earlier that Ghana's Asante Kotoko football team had been involved in an accident on Wednesday night that killed one person and injured several others, while travelling back to their base in the southern city of Kumasi.

Our colleagues at BBC Sport are reporting that the team's deputy equipment officer Kofi Asare has been confirmed as the only fatality from the accident:

The statement added that players and officials who had sustained minor injuries have been treated and discharged, with a follow-up examination is scheduled for Saturday.

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A ship that is alleged to have cut an undersea fibre optic cable two weeks ago in Somalia waters, leading to severe disruption of the internet, is being held "somewhere in Somalia waters", the county's attorney general has told the BBC.

Ahmed Ali Dahir says the ongoing internet outage is costing the country $10m (£7.7m) each day and that the country should be compensated for the losses:

"Whoever was involved in this incident will be tried and the company that belongs to the ship that was involved in cutting the undersea cable is required to pay for the loss.”

The ship named MSC Alice Vessel had brought goods to the Mogadishu port when the incident happened, Horn Observer reports. , external

After more than 20 years of conflict, internet usage is low in Somalia, with just 1.6% of the population online in 2014, according to estimates by the International Telecommunication Union.

A Nigerian man accused of planning to sell his son to raise money for his dead wife's funeral was given bail when he appeared in a court in Oyo State in Nigeria south-western region, Vanguard newspaper reports. , external

The man and his friend are facing two charges related to conspiracy to sell the six-year-old boy.

They are accused of attempting to sell the boy to an undercover police officer, Vanguard reports.

They both denied the charges.

The case has been adjourned until 31 August.

Dickens Olewe
BBC Africa

This week we tackle one of Kenya's biggest talking points - land.

It’s undoubtedly one of the most emotive issues that Kenyans discuss day to day.

I spoke to Professor Ambreena Manji from Cardiff University who has been researching and writing about the topic for years. We discussed how land issues are manifesting themselves in this election.

I also spoke to a former adviser for the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) about the distinguishing policies of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his main challenger Raila Odinga on Kenyan troops' presence in Somalia.

On our fact-check section this week, we look at the National Super Alliance (Nasa) manifesto.

Listen to this week's show here:

Six Kenyan government officials who had been abducted by suspected al-Shabab Islamist militants in the coastal county of Lamu have been rescued, the privately-owned Star newspaper reports.

Media reports say that the militants had hijacked and commandeered the vehicle the officials were travelling in.

The region has experienced several attack in the past two weeks with the militants beheading nine people at a village in Jima area last weekend.

The Kenyan government has sent the army to the region, where they are using airstrikes to target the militants' bases in Boni forest, an expansive forested area which straddles the border to Somalia where the militants are based.

Didi Akinyelure
BBC Africa, Lagos

We reported earlier that the Governor of Lagos State in Nigeria said only 600,000 of the 22 million residents in the state were up-to-date tax payers.

We've looked into this and the number of registered tax payers in Lagos state is closer to five million, according to the Lagos Internal Revenue Service and the Lagos State Commissioner of Finance.

Sudan's government says it will continue co-operating with the US despite President Donald Trump's administration postponing for three months the lifting of sanctions imposed on the country in 1997, the Reuters news agency reports.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir stopped the work of a committee which was formed to negotiate with the US on the sanctions.

Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour told reporters that co-operation with the US will continue "between our institutions, for example, between the intelligence services or the foreign ministries".

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At least 27 hippos have been slaughtered in western Niger by villagers who blame them for destroying crops and harming livestock, local authorities told AFP news agency.

The "massacre" started in March and "then assumed dramatic proportions" mainly in island settlements on the Niger river, the prefect of the Ayorou region, Jando Rhichi Algaher, told AFP.

He added that around ten people have been arrested for the killings and some have already been freed.

In May, local tribal chiefs issued warnings about hippos, saying they were ravaging crops and threatening boats on the Niger river, reports AFP.

Shingai Nyoka
BBC Africa, Harare

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Zimbabwe’s state-owned airline has laid off 200 workers, or roughly half of its staff, with immediate effect.

It’s all part of a turn-around strategy to bring the struggling airline back to profitability from a $300m (£230m) debt. Last month the EU banned the airline from using its airspace citing safety concerns.

There have been major changes at the national airline since President Robert Mugabe's son-in-law, Simba Chikore, took over as chief operating officer last year.

An Air Zimbabwe spokesperson has told the state media that management has been trimmed from 28 to just 12, the finance department from 36 to 17.

The airline has struggled to keep afloat over the last decade and plans to carry out a restructuring exercise that will include retraining for all staff including top management.

Unconfirmed reports say that a name change is also in the pipeline. A move many believe will ringfence the debt and reduce the threat of creditors seizing the planes.

President Mugabe is a frequent flier on the airline, often leasing out the largest plane for state visits and private medical visits to the Far East.

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State security forces in Rwanda have summarily killed at least 37 suspected petty offenders since April 2016, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, external (HRW).

The report says it appears to be an officially sanctioned strategy to execute suspected thieves.

Witnesses told HRW the fate of one man, accused of stealing a cow, was decided in a community meeting. Fulgence Rukundo was questioned about the stolen cow, then taken to a community meeting with the district mayor. One witness described what happened next:

Other witnesses told HRW that others who were killed had been accused of stealing bananas, a motorcycle, smuggling marijuana, illegally crossing the border from the Democratic Republic of Congo, or of using illegal fishing nets.

Rwandan officials denied to HRW that any extrajudicial executions had happened.

HRW said in 2015 that it had also documented the illegal detention of thousands, including street children and sex workers.

Wanyama wa Chebusiri
BBC Africa

Authorities in Kenya have deployed dozens of regular and paramilitary security personnel in central Laikipia region to track down suspected armed Pokot ethnic herdsmen who killed six officers and injured four others on Wednesday.

A Twitter account that monitors attacks in the region has shared a report by a local newspaper:

A senior police officer who requested anonymity said airstrikes may be used to clampdown on the armed herders.

The police officers died in a shoot-out with the raiders after the armed livestock herders ambushed them as they patrolled the expansive and volatile Kamwenje area in Laikipia West.

Violence has stoked central Kenya’s Laikipia region this year with armed pastoral herders driving thousands of their animals into private farms and ranches in search of dwindling pasture.

A British military veteran ranch owner Tristan Voorspuy, was shot dead when the unrest started in April.

A security operation ordered by the government has so far failed to tame the conflict which is largely blamed on drought and land politics.

Tomi Oladipo
BBC Africa security correspondent

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The Sudanese government says the US decision to extend sanctions is unjustified.

The Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour said agencies in the US, European Union and United Nations had acknowledged Sudan’s progress in five key areas of concern.

These involve cooperation on counter-terrorism, addressing the threat of the Lords Resistance Army rebel group, halting support for rebels in neighbouring South Sudan – while also ending Sudan’s own domestic conflicts and improving humanitarian access.

Economic sanctions were imposed on Sudan in 1997 for its alleged backing of Islamist militant groups. Osama bin Laden, the killed al-Qaeda leader, was based in Khartoum from 1992 to 1996.

This week US President Donald Trump postponed a decision on whether to lift the trade embargo permanently until October 12.

Critics of the Sudanese government, including the country’s rebel groups, have welcomed the extension of the sanctions – saying the government had not done enough to deserve any affirmation.

Despite being isolated and suffering economic strains, Sudan has been slowly emerging from difficult times - relations with the EU have improved because of cooperation on migration.

But an arrest warrant for President Bashir from the International Criminal Court remains – for alleged war crimes related to the conflict in the Darfur region. He denies the charges.

People on Twitter are still criticising British tabloid newspaper Daily Mail for a story published on its website yesterday that described Tanzania's largest city as a "fishing village of Dar es Salaam".

The phrasing was used on a story about the visit of English Premier League club Everton to Tanzania.

One person called it "disrespectful and racist":

The phrasing has been removed from the article that is currently on its website but parts of it has been retained on a picture caption. It says:

"''The Bolassie Fan Club' has swept through the Tanzanian fishing village on the east coast of the country"

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Andrew Harding
BBC News, Johannesburg

A powerful business family in South Africa is coming under growing political pressure, with senior figures in the government openly accusing them of corruption.

The Gupta family are originally from India and were recently granted full South African citizenship, in what some claim were controversial circumstances.

But the government has confirmed today that some of them have renounced their Indian citizenship,complying with local laws.

The Guptas insist they are honest businessmen and job creators, who happen to have grown close to President Jacob Zuma and his family.

But newly leaked emails have helped to fuel allegations of a plot by the Guptas and their political allies.

Here in South Africa, they call it state capture – an attempt to buy influence at the heart of government.

The Guptas deny any involvement.

But Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has become the latest to accuse the family, and members of the government, of diverting state resources into “the pockets of a few”.

The increasingly personal attacks and allegations should be seen in the context of a wider political battle taking shape here, as a bitterly divided governing ANC prepares to choose Jacob Zuma’s successor.

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The son-in-law of Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos told Reuters news agency that a Congolese court has sentenced him in absentia to one year in prison for real estate fraud.

Sindika Dokolo told Reuters that Wednesday's verdict was politically motivated.

He has criticised the Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila after he refused to step down from power.

President Joseph Kabila's chief political rival, the former Governor of Katanga Moise Katumbi, was also convicted of real estate fraud last June shortly after he announced his candidacy to stand in an election to replace Mr Kabila.

Authorities have repeatedly rejected allegations that DR Congo's justice system is targeting Mr Kabila's opponents.

A DR Congo government spokesman told Reuters he was not aware of Mr Dokolo's conviction while Mr Dokolo said he had previously been acquitted in the same case.