That's all from the BBC Africa Live page today. Keep up-to-date with what's happening across the continent, including the Angolan elections, by listening to the Africa Today podcast or checking the BBC News website.

A reminder of today's wise words:

Click here and scroll to the bottom to send us your African proverbs.

And we leave you with this photo taken in Senegal's capital, Dakar:

The leader of Angola's main opposition Unita party has disputed the first set of results from yesterday's general election announced by the election commission.

The provisional results showed that the governing MPLA had a strong lead.

Isaias Samakuva told the BBC that the results were controversial adding that it was not clear that the commission had produced the evident of the vote count.

Unita has produced its own set of results showing a different outcome.

Image source, EPA

We reported earlier today that Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has called some newly elected MPs greedy for resisting cuts to their salaries and grants, which are currently worth more than $10,000 (£7,813) a month.

Last month, Kenya's salaries commission announced that it would scrap MPs' car and other allowances and reduce their monthly pay. The issue has divided lawmakers.

BBC Focus on Africa hears from two of them: Yusuf Hassan, an MP who supports the cuts, and Ledama Olekina, a senator who wants to block the reductions.

Listen to each of make their case in conversation with Focus presenter Akwasi Sarpong:

Angola's electoral commission has announced the first batch of provisional results from Wednesday's general election showing a strong lead for the governing MPLA.

It says that the MPLA has a 65% share of the vote compared to the main opposition Unita party's 24%.

Voting is still going on in three provinces because of problems with the delivery of voting materials.

The MPLA's leader Jose Eduardo dos Santos has been in power since 1979, but he is stepping down after this election.

Image source, Reuters

Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Nairobi

At least 13 people have been injured in a grenade explosion in south-western Ethiopia.

The attack occurred in the town of Jimma in Oromia region where activists have called for a five-day, stay-at-home strike to protest against the detention of opposition leaders and a tax hike on small businesses.

Local reports say a 10-year-old boy is among those injured during the explosion in a busy business district.

No-one has claimed responsibility for the attack but police say they are searching for the attacker.

It's still not yet clear if the incident is related to the strike call.

Hundreds of small businesses have remained closed in parts of Oromia region since Wednesday.

Roads have also been blocked in some areas paralysing public transport in and around the region.

Image source, Reuters

Image source, EPA/RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY

Russia's ambassador to Sudan has been found dead in a swimming pool at his residence in the capital, Khartoum.

Sudanese police said a preliminary investigation indicated Mirgayas Shirinsky had died of natural causes.

They say that the 63-year-old was found dead yesterday evening "in the swimming pool of his residence".

Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said today that staff at the Khartoum embassy called an ambulance but Mr Shirinsky "could not be saved".

"The Russian envoy was found in his residence with evidence of an acute heart attack," she said.

"He dedicated his life to diplomacy. We express sincere condolences to his family and loved ones."

Although his death is not suspicious, Mr Shirinsky is the fourth Russian diplomat to die in service in the past year.

Read more on the BBC website.

Sex workers in Malawi have threatened to organise protests to speak out against the abuse they say they face from police and medical practitioners, the Nyasa Times reports, external today.

“We are not happy that in this age, we sex workers continue to face a lot of abuse and discrimination. When we need help from police and hospital, there is no privacy for us,” the news site quotes a representative of the national sex workers' union as saying.

Zinenani Majawa, national coordinator of the Sex Workers Association of Malawi, is also reported as saying:

“In two weeks time we have arranged meetings with police and the ministry of health to present our complaints and if we are not assisted after that, we will hold demonstrations across the country.”

The UN children's agency agency, Unicef, earlier this year warned that droughts and crop failure have increasingly forced teenage girls to sell sex.

Image source, AFP

Mary Morgan
BBC Africa, northern Ethiopia

I've been meeting some extraordinary people here in northern Ethiopia, while working as a producer with local journalists for the BBC's new Horn of Africa language services.

Abebe was separated from his family during the famine of 1985, when his parents and brother were forcibly removed from their drought-stricken village and relocated to a camp hundreds of miles away.

Abebe, who was only six at the time, was nowhere to be seen so was left behind - on the brink of death from illness and starvation.

His grandmother, who was also left behind, couldn't feed him so took him to a children's centre, where he was written off as beyond saving, but he survived.

Abebe's parents believed he had died.

After the food emergency was over, Abebe first lived on the streets of Mekele, a large city in northern Ethiopia. He then went to the capital, Addis Ababa, where he was taken in by a children's charity, which helped with his education.

After graduating from university he decided to help other lost children back in Mekele.

He also searched for his family. Radio announcements went out for months about the little boy, now a grown man, looking for his family - until eventually his older brother heard one and got in touch by letter.

At the reunion Abebe’s mother collapsed when she saw him - her son, back from the dead. It was emotional but awkward, and he doesn't have a close relationship with his birth family even now.

Institutionalised care scarred him, he says, and made it difficult to form normal family relationships.

The BBC's Horn of Africa language services are due to launch online on 18 September.

Police in Kenya have arrested a 17-year-old girl in connection with the death of electoral commission officer Chris Msando, local media report.

Kenyan news site The Nation reports, external police as saying the child's phone was allegedly used to send threatening messages.

The child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was taken to Kiambu Juvenile Court earlier today where "detectives requested the courts to allow them to detain her for a week as they interrogate her further", The Nation reports.

Mr Msando, who was in charge of Kenya's electronic voting system, was murdered days before the general election.

President Uhuru Kenyatta won the 8 August election, defeating veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga by a comfortable margin.

Mr Odinga alleged that the commission's IT system had been hacked and the result manipulated to give Mr Kenyatta victory.

The commission said there had been a hacking attempt, but it had failed.

Foreign observers said the poll was free and fair.

Mr Odinga. meanwhile, has said he will challenge the result in court.

Image source, Reuters

Bell Pottinger, a British public relations organisation, is to be disciplined by a trade body over allegations that it ran a campaign that critics said stoked racial tensions, the Guardian newspaper, external reports.

The trade body, the Public Relations and Communications Association, could end Bell Pottinger's membership, something which has happened only once before, the Guardian adds.

Bell Pottinger was hired by Oakbay, a company owned by the controversial and wealthy Gupta family, which is accused of trying to influence political decisions in South Africa.

The Guptas are also seen as close to President Jacob Zuma.

Bell Pottinger was accused of using a strategy that stressed the power of white-owned businesses and promoted the #WhiteMonopolyCapital hashtag as way of diverting criticism away from the president.

The company has subsequently sacked one employee and suspended three, admitting the campaign was "offensive".

Critics say it worked to the advantage of President Zuma.

Bell Pottinger Chief Executive James Henderson apologised for the campaign.

Image source, AFP

The Ethiopian capital's first revolving restaurant has opened at Addis Ababa's Intercontinental hotel, Addis Fortune reports, external.

The hotel is a local brand and not part of the international chain of the same name.

The restaurant gives the diner a panoramic view across the city and takes 55 minutes to go all the way round, the newspaper adds.

We've found some still pictures of the restaurant and the view, but sadly no moving images yet:

The US is set to impose visa sanctions on three African countries, which are refusing to take back their nationals who are earmarked for deportation by the US authorities, CNN reports, external quoting a State Department source.

This could means that citizens from Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone could face problems trying to get a visa to enter the US.

Journalist Umaru Fofana in Freetown has confirmed that Sierra Leone is on the list, quoting a source as saying that the authorities refuse to take the deportees because there is no proof that they are in fact Sierra Leonean. But the State Department refutes this.

The US is hoping to deport foreign nationals who have finished serving jail terms.

Image source, AFP

Uganda's health ministry has confirmed two cases of haemorrhagic fever, known clinically as Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCVHF).

It says two positive blood tests for the potentially deadly disease were identified from two different hospitals in Uganda's central region.

CCVHF is a disease found in animals that can infect humans.

Outbreaks are usually linked to contact with blood or body fluids from infected animals or people.

Onset is sudden, with initial symptoms including high fever, joint pain, stomach pain and vomiting.

Red eyes, a flushed face and red spots in the throat are also common.

As the illness progresses, patients can develop large areas of severe bruising, severe nosebleeds and uncontrolled bleeding.

Public health consultant, Dr Syed Ahmed, has told the BBC: "The risk of person to person transmission of Crimean Congo Viral Haemorrhagic Fever is very low as it can only be transmitted by direct contact with infected blood and body fluids.

"It is not a virus which is transmitted through the air."

Image source, .

The office of Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has published more details of what he said when he criticised the demands of some MPs to be paid more (see earlier entry).

The president said "it was shameful that the MPs were showing greed even before they are sworn in", according to a statement., external

"We should understand that we are called to serve the people, not to earn from them," he said.

Kennedy Gondwe
BBC World Service, Lusaka

Police in Zambia have cancelled thanksgiving prayers for opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema.

The event was scheduled to take place today at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the capital, Lusaka.

Last week, Mr Hichilema was released from jail where he had been held since April on treason charges.

Sources say the charges against the opposition leader and five aides were dropped after a deal was negotiated by the Commonwealth.

Police cancelled today's prayer event saying the organisers did not get permission to host the ceremony.

Organisers have since been summoned to appear before police for questioning.

Image source, AFP

Image source, PONT

Welsh health charities with links to Africa have said some people they invite to Wales are being humiliated by the way UK immigration services handles their visitor visa applications.

African experts with advice to offer the National Health Service (NHS) are among those who have had applications refused, charities say.

The Welsh Government launched the Wales For Africa programme in 2006.

The Home Office, which handles immigration into the UK, said all visa applications were considered on their individual merits.

It added this was in line with UK immigration rules and guidance.

Image source, PONT

Geoff Lloyd, a doctor based in the Welsh town of Pontypridd, said while more than 100 Ugandans have visited the town over the last 10 years through the charity Pont, some were now being refused entry.

He said: "Most problematic of all, is that we started finding that the vast majority of visas were being denied and they were being denied at the last moment, which turned our plans to bring visitors from Uganda over into total chaos and left a lot of very frustrated people both in Wales and Uganda."

Read the full story on the BBC website.

Image source, AFP

The Nigerian army has said that it is monitoring social media to "sieve out" any "anti-government, anti-military, [or] anti-security" elements.

Spokesman Major-General John Enenche made the comments on Channels TV, and today told the BBC:

It follows President Muhammadu Buhari's speech on Monday, his first since returning from three months' medical leave in London, where he criticised those who have suggested Nigeria could fracture:

Some on social media are critical of the military's monitoring of user activity:

Ethiopia is undergoing an industrial revolution as more jobs are being created for the country's growing population.

But is manufacturing and education the answer?

A spelling mistake must be every engraver's nightmare.

We're no strangers to the typo on the BBC Africa Live page, but the error can be quickly amended - not so if you're responsible for engraving a major football trophy.

On Wednesday night, Simba beat bitter rivals Yanga on penalties in the season-opening community shield match. Eagle-eyed fans noticed a problem with the trophy:

Shield was misspelled "sheild", but it didn't stop the trophy being awarded:

According to one Tanzanian paper, the football authorities have now said sorry for the error:

We've been reporting that some of the new crop of Kenyan MPs have been calling for a reversal of the salary cut agreed earlier this year.

Kenyan lawmakers are thought to be among the best paid in the world.

But speaking today, President Uhuru Kenyatta said he would stop any such move: