How did a girl hawking bread on the streets of Nigeria's main city, Lagos, rise to become a national celebrity and successful model? This is the real life Cinderella story of Olajumoke.

This story is from BBC Pidgin, which launched on Monday, the first of six new African languages as part of the biggest expansion of the BBC World Service since the 1940s.

Video journalists: Helen Oyibo, Joshua Akinyemi and Charlie Northcott

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A company linked to South Africa's controversial Gupta family has announced the sale of its stake in ANN7, external television and The New Age, external newspaper to a businessman aligned with the scandal-hit President Jacob Zuma for 450 million rand ($34m; £26m).

The sale was aimed at protecting the "future of these businesses and help preserve the jobs of their employees", Oakbay Investments said in a statement.

The Gupta family has been under pressure since leading banks shut its accounts as it found itself at the centre of allegations that it wields undue influence on President Jacob Zuma's government.

Mr Zuma and the family deny allegations of any wrongdoing.

Oakbay has sold its shares to Lodidox, owned by Mzwanele Manyi, the President of Progressive Professionals Forum.

He is a supporter of Mr Zuma and the Gupta family and in a newspaper interview in April, he said he hoped that South Africans would be cured of "Guptaphobia".

Mr Manyi said he was delighted by the deal.

“These are two strong businesses which are full of potential and, under the right external circumstances, can become an increasingly important and relevant part of the South African media landscape," he said.

The Guptas have repeatedly been accused by Mr Zuma's critics of being corrupt, and the South African Communist Party has called for the Indian-born family's South African citizenship to be revoked.

The Guptas insist they are not corrupt, and say they are promoting black empowerment in a country where the economy is still dominated by white businessmen.

Read: Will the 'Zuptas' fall in South Africa?

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On the last day of campaigning ahead of Wednesday’s general election in Angola, the newspaper front pages are understated.

The government-owned Journal de Angola has the headline "Campaign comes to an end". It goes on to say the ruling MPLA partty and an opposition party, Casa-CE. held rallies over the weekend. Another opposition party, Unita. will hold a rally today.

The privately-owned Pais newspaper is not giving much away either with its headline saying that the Bishop of Tocoista appealed to Christians to choose the party that offers the best solutions for good governance, without saying which party that should be.

President Jose Eduado dos Santos is standing down just shy of 38 years in power. That makes him the second-longest running president in the world currently, behind Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema who gained power just seven weeks before him.

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Five people have been killed and 25 huts burned down in a clash between ethnic militias in eastern DR Congo, French-language Radio Pole FM , externalfrom Goma reports.

It says fighters from the APCLS (Alliance of Patriots for a Free and Sovereign Congo), a predominantly Hunde ethnic militia group, fought members of the Nyatura, a predominantly Hutu militia group, at Muhanga, in a territory west of Goma.

The radio says APCLS militia fighters from Ngingwe attacked and burned down 25 huts belonging to local people.

"We don land gidigba!" (We've finally arrived!) That's the message from the new team behind the BBC's Pidgin service, which has launched today as part of the biggest expansion of the BBC World Service since the 1940s.

Pidgin is spoken by an estimated 75m people in Nigeria alone, with additional speakers across West and Central Africa.

Video Journalists: Joshua Akinyemi, Olubunmi Okunnu and Charlie Northcott.

BBC pidgin

A new language service for digital platforms in English-based Pidgin for West and Central Africa has been launched by the BBC World Service.

Pidgin is one of the most widely-spoken languages across the region, even though it is not officially recognised.

The launch is part of the World Service's biggest expansion since the 1940s, following a government funding boost announced in 2016.

Pidgin will soon be joined by 10 more new services in Africa and Asia.

The WS also plans to offer more mobile and video content and a greater social media presence.

It will also enhance its television services across Africa, including more than 30 new TV programmes for partner broadcasters in sub-Saharan Africa.

Arabic and Russian programming will also be boosted in the 2020 project.

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An online auction of rhino horn is due to open today after a court in South Africa gave the go-ahead, despite strong opposition from the government and conservationists.

Authorities had tried to prevent the three-day auction, refusing to issue a permit and raising concern that it could undermine the global ban on rhino trade.

But the High Court in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, ruled in favour of the auction's organiser, John Hume, who runs the world's biggest rhino farm.

Mr Hume wants to auction 264 horns, AFP news agency reports.

"We are happy. I hope that the government has learnt that they can't be unfair to us," he is quoted as saying.

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South Africa's main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has called for a parliamentary inquiry into the African National Congress (ANC) government's decision to give diplomatic immunity to Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe.

In a statement, the party said it was "simply inexplicable" how Mrs Mugabe, 52, was allowed to "flee the country in the dead of night to avoid criminal prosecution" in the assault case against her.

"It illustrates how unrepentant the ANC government is and, following its complicity in allowing Sudanese President Omar al- Bashir to escape an international arrest warrant [in 2015], shows that the ANC government will continue to do exactly what it wants to protect their dodgy friend," the DA added in a statement, external.

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The mother of Gabriella Engels - the 20-year-old South African model who has accused Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe of assaulting her - says their campaign for justice is not over, despite the fact that the South African government has given her diplomatic immunity to avoid criminal prosecution, Johannesburg-based Eyewitness News reports, external.

“The citizens of this country don’t matter to them [the South African government], as long as they can keep their allies happy and keep the political roles opened for themselves, it doesn’t matter,” Debbie Engels is quoted as saying.

“Our legal team is not just going to leave it at that,” she added.

Gabriella Engels laid a complaint of assault against Mrs Mugabe, 52, after accusing her of "beating the hell out of me" in a hotel in Sandton, an upmarket suburb north of Johannesburg, on 13 August.

However, South Africa's government gave her diplomatic immunity, allowing her to return home with her husband, Robert Mugabe, after a summit of regional leaders in South Africa.

Mr Mugabe and Mrs Mugabe have not yet commented on the controversy.

The South African government's decision came in a notice from International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, published in the Government Gazette on Sunday.

"I hereby recognise the immunities and privileges of the First Lady of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Dr Grace Mugabe," she said.

A lawyer for Ms Engels told the BBC that they were planning to challenge the immunity decision in court.

Willie Spies said he would argue that the first lady should not have been given special treatment as she had been in South Africa on private business.

Stephanie Hegarty
BBC Africa, Lagos

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari addressed the nation this morning after returning on Saturday from more than three months medical leave in the UK.

In a rousing speech calling for national unity, President Buhari took on various problems that have plagued the nation in his absence - the war against militant Islamist group Boko Haram, a sectarian movement in the east and clashes between nomadic herdsmen and farmers.

But he did not answer the burning question that many Nigerians hoped he would - what is wrong with him and why has he been absent from his job for almost five months already this year?

Mr Buhari will send a letter to government today to officially take back power from Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, who stood in in his absence.

Though the president was eager in this speech to show he is fit to lead, many will still be concerned that he is not well enough to tackle Nigeria’s many problems.

For the months he was in Nigeria before he left for London he was rarely seen in public.

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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has given his first address since returning to the country on Saturday after three months medical leave in the UK.

He made no reference to his health. The president called for unity in Nigeria, and said he would renew his fight against problems such as the war against Boko Haram militants, a sectarian uprising in the east and clashes between nomadic herdsmen and farmers.

President Buhari has had three spells of treatment in the UK but the nature of his illness has never been disclosed.

Read: Africa's 'medical tourist' presidents

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