That's all from BBC Africa Live this week. Keep up-to-date with what's happening across the continent by listening to the Africa Today podcast or check the BBC News website.

A reminder of today's wise words:

And we leave you with this photo of a performer before a rugby match between the Springboks and New Zealand's All Blacks in South Africa.

It's one of our favourite shots this week.

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We reported earlier that police had thrown a tear gas canister into a car during a protest in the capital, Nairobi.

The driver then rolled out of the vehicle and lay on the road.

At the time we were unsure of who the driver was.

Local media has now identified him as opposition lawmaker Caleb Amisi.

A local TV station has shared the dramatic picture:

By the year 2018 it's predicted the gambling market in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa will be worth $37bn (£27.8bn).

So our regular satirical Resident Presidents compete to see the most tasteless bets. Among them is when Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will die.

This gives Olushambles an idea for how to play the system. And it is not the smartest of ideas. Have a listen:

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We reported earlier that the first case of pneumonic plague has been confirmed in Seychelles.

The health ministry has now released a statement saying the 12 people showing plague-like symptoms who were admitted to hospital all are in a stable condition now.

The cases are from Madagascar and the health ministry are recommending people not to travel there "for the time being".

In 2014, Burkina Faso's traditional attire "dan fani" came back into fashion when protesters against the continued rule of former President Blaise Compaoré, adopted it as an expression of Sankarism - after the revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara.

The cloth is now being used to a symbol of the country's revised identity:

In 1873 a slave ship from Zanzibar was intercepted in South Africa's port city of Durban.

The freed slaves settled in the area and now claim ownership of a five hectares of prime land but residents in the area, mostly white, have opposed their plans to build low-cost housing.

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At least 20 nursery school pupils in Kenya's western city of Kisumu are receiving treatment after police fired tear gas in their school, privately-owned Daily Nation reports. , external

The officers had been firing tear gas at protesters, the newspaper says.

The protesters had been complaining about the alleged refusal of the electoral commission change the electoral system before the election re-run.

A school teacher told the paper that the children - some as young as two years old - were sleeping when the tear gas was fired in the school.

She said that some of the children were almost unconscious:

"The children cried uncontrollably while others looked almost unconscious due to the effect of the gas and the water."

The regions' police boss Leonard Katana said he was not aware of the attack on the pupils.

This is the second incident in the last two weeks, according to media reports, where police have fired tear gas in a nursery school in the city and denied knowledge of the incident.

Meanwhile, the same newspaper reports, in the town on Migori also in the western region, a 75-year-old woman was shot during similar demonstrations.

Helen Oyibo

Nigerian afrobeats star Davido has once again reiterated his innocence in the death of his friend, Tagbo Umeike.

Mr Tagbo died on 3 October and his body was reportedly abandoned in front of a hospital in Lagos.

The police say the autopsy shows Mr Tagbo died from suffocation.

Speaking through his lawyer, Norrison Quakers, he insisted that at no time did his late friend enter his car and that he left Mr Tagbo behind at the club where they last saw each other.

Davido also posted some CCTV footage onto Instagram that showed him and Tagbo Umeike, a few hours before he died:

The footage appeared to show Mr Tagbo hanging around Davido's car and Davido, whose birth name is David Adeleke, leaving the club.

Previously the police had said other CCTV footage showed Davido's escort vehicle dropped Mr Tagbo's dead body off outside the hospital.

Davido maintains that he didn’t know how his friend died and never gave the order for Mr Tagbo’s body to be dumped.

He has also published a long statement from his lawyers on Instagram.

Nearly 2,000 Zambian villagers have been given the go ahead to sue mining giant Vedanta in a UK court, the Reuters news agency reports.

The villagers who live in Nchanga in the country's Copperbelt province are suing for injury and damages to their property for what they say is numerous and ongoing toxic discharges around where they live.

Vedanta Resources has an asset base of almost $40bn (£30bn) spread across the world.

Its Zambian subsidiary Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) had appealed against a ruling in May last year when a High Court judge decided the claim could proceed.

KCM which employs 16,000 people in Zambia had wanted the claims to be heard in the country.

Reuters reports that the judgment will play a significant role in defining the future liability of multinational companies based in the UK for alleged human rights and environmental abuses outside the country.

A CNN journalist based in Kenya has shared a video of police firing tear gas inside a car.

It is unclear who the occupant(s) are but opposition politicians have been trying to get into the city centre where the government banned protests.

The footage shows the car being engulfed by smoke and then at least one occupant rolling out of it.

Meanwhile, a local TV station is reporting that two people who were shot dead in the western town of Bondo during a demostration pushing for changes in the electoral system had been attempting to storm a police station.

A Gambian security guard who claims he was sacked from UK supermarket Tesco after being wrongly accused of stealing has spent the night in the supermarket's roof.

Adama Jammeh has been on the girders above the checkouts for more than 20 hours, live-streaming on Facebook.

Shoppers in the supermarket in Reading, near London, were told to abandon their trolleys and leave the store as he climbed to the roof yelling.

The 46-year-old said he was falsely accused of stealing electrical goods worth £20,000 ($26,600), and then sacked.

He has spent the past six months staging a one-man protest with banners outside the store.

Mr Jammeh started the roof protest just after 18:00 BST on Thursday.

The store's management team is but refusing to comment.

Read more on the BBC News website.

Shingai Nyoka
BBC Africa, Harare

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Africa is losing about 8% of its elephant population every year.

However authorities in Zimbabwe say they have too many elephants and are struggling to cope.

The national parks have a capacity of 50,000 elephants, but the population now stands at 83,000.

Parks authorities say the elephants require large quantities of water and vegetation for food.

The elephants have caused conflicts with surrounding communities as they compete for water and invade maize fields in search of food.

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Former Ivorian international and Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has offered to help World Cup hosts Russia and Fifa to deal with racism.

Toure made the comments as part of his contributing to a short film about discrimination.

He said next year's World Cup will be a "big mess" if it is marred by racism and discrimination.

"We have to see change because people have been talking but nothing has really been taken care of," he added.

The 34-year-old midfielder was the subject of racist chants when his played CSKA Moscow in the Champions League in Russia in 2013.

Despite his concern he said that next year's premier football event might end up being "very nice":

"Everyone is talking about Russia maybe being a little bit difficult. But I hope that Russia surprises everybody by trying to make something very nice."

Toure, who speaks Russian, added: "I don't want to be involved in only talking. I want to see action and people be real. These things are very important for the future of football."

Read more on the BBC News website.

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The first case of pneumonic plague has been confirmed in Seychelles, media in the Seychelles and Madagascar has reported.

The reports say the diagnosis was confirmed on 10 October and come from a 34-year old man who had returned to Seychelles from Madagascar on 6 October.

He is said to be undergoing treatment and is recovering, media reported.

Seychelles health officials are said to be monitoring 258 people who have been in contact with the man who fell ill, including family members.

The outbreak began in Madagascar’s central highlands in August.

World Health Organization has delivered more than a million doses of antibiotics to fight the outbreak in Madagascar which has killed at least 33 people.

A journalist has shared pictures of a trail of destruction following heavy rains in Rwanda's northern Musanze district.

He says that it has been raining in the region for days.

The photos show damaged roads and collapsed buildings:

A Kenyan journalist is tweeting that police have shot dead two people in the opposition stronghold of Bondo.

He reports that three others have been injured in the ongoing demonstrations to push for changes in the electoral system before a fresh presidential election is held.

Bondo is in the western region of the country and is the home area of opposition leader Raila Odinga.

The BBC's David Wafula has snapped these photos of police officers in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, patrolling roads leading to the city centre.

They are enforcing a government ban on protests in three major cities.

Thomas Naadi
BBC Africa, Accra

Ghana’s government has ordered for a halt to the construction of fuel stations after a fire on Saturday killed seven people.

Yesterday President Nana Akufo Addo outlined measures to stop explosions at petrol and gas stations.

Twenty fuel stations have already been closed this week and Ghana’s National Petroleum Authority plans to recruit 200 auditors to check fuel stations' safety standards.

Ghana has had eight fuel station disasters in the last three years. The deadliest was in June 2015 when more than 100 people died after an explosion in the capital.

A Kenyan TV station has shared a video of opposition leaders and their supporters being blocked from accessing the centre of the capital, Nairobi.

It shows police throwing tear gas canisters at a convoy of cars carrying the politicians.

The report says that the politicians are driving around the city to find ways they can beat the police's blockade.

The government on Thursday banned demonstrations in three major cities including the capital.

Interior Minister Fred Matiang'i said that the order was meant to protect "Kenyans and property".

Opposition supporters have been holding regular demonstrations to push for electoral changes before a fresh election is held.

The Supreme Court annulled President Uhuru Kenyatta's win in the 8 August election citing "illegalities and irregularities".

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South African President Jacob Zuma's office has said in a statement that a court ruling against him was "disappointing", but anticipated.

The president expected South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to consider representations from his legal team before making a decision about whether to prosecute him, it added.

Earlier today the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that prosecutors could bring back corruption charges relating to a 1999 arms deal.

Mr Zuma has been accused of taking kickbacks from the purchase of fighter jets, patrol boats and other arms.

The president has always maintained his innocence.