Summary

  • South Africa's president survives no-confidence vote

  • Wins by 198 votes to 177

  • Opposition leader called Zuma 'corrupt and broken'

  • ANC condemned vote as 'attempt to usurp power'

  • Counting under way in Kenya's general election

  • Police report no major security incident

  • Eight candidates are vying to be president

  • More than 45% of the registered voters are under 35

Live Reporting

Damian Zane, Kelly-Leigh Cooper, Farouk Chothia, Insaf Abbas and Rebecca Seales

  1. Long queues in central Nairobi

    People are sharing pictures on Twitter of queues of voters around the country.

    A professional photographer took this picture at a polling station at a school in the centre of the capital, Nairobi:

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    The BBC's Ferdinand Omondi sent us this picture of voters entering a polling station in Kwale in the east of the country just after polls opened at 03:00 GMT (6am local time):

    People queing

  2. Kenya's 'great day'

    Newspaper headlines

    As Kenyans go to the polls to vote in six elections, including a presidential vote, the newspapers are urging a peaceful vote.

    Kenya front page
    Kenya front page
    Newspaper front page

    The violence after the 2007 election, which left more than 1,000 people dead, casts a long shadow of this vote.

    But the previous election in 2013 passed off peacefully and there has been a strong message of peace - or amani in Swahili - throughout this campaign.

    Kenyans can also follow events on a number of different rolling news channels:

    TV news programme

  3. Kenyans go to the polls

    Key points

    Kenyans are voting in the country's sixth election since the re-introduction of multi-party politics in 1992.

    Here are some key facts as voters go to the polls today:

    • People are voting in six elections from the president down to county assembly member
    • There are eight presidential candidates with incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga considered to be the front-runners
    • To win the presidential election in the first round, a candidate needs 50% plus one of all the votes cast
    • Overall, there are more than 14,000 candidates running across the six elections
    • Over 45% of the registered voters are under 35
    • An estimated 180,000 police officers will be on duty across the country to help keep the peace
    VoterEPA

  5. Good morning

    Welcome to the BBC Africa Live page where we'll be keeping a close eye on developments as Kenya goes to the polls, plus other top African news stories.