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Togolese Francis Kone has dedicated the Fifa Fair Play Award he received on Monday to his mother Akoudji.

The 26-year-old was honoured after he prevented opponent Martin Berkovec from swallowing his tongue during a Czech league game earlier this year.

"I love my mother so much and this trophy belongs to her," Kone, a striker who was playing for Slovacko at the time, told BBC Sport.

"She is the greatest gift I have been given in all my life."

Read more on the BBC Sport website.

Police have been standing guard outside the headquarters of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) in Kenya's western Kisumu city as tension escalates ahead of tomorrow's presidential poll which is being boycotted by the opposition:

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Opposition supporters carried tree trunks to barricade streets as they vowed to prevent the election from taking place:

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Kisumu governor Anyang Nyongo addressed the protesters outside the IEBC offices. He was earlier quoted by Reuters news agency as saying that "people are entitled to rebel" if the government "subverts the sovereign will of the people".

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Eight opposition MPs in Uganda have so far returned the $8,000 (£6,000) each of them were given by parliament for consultations with their constituents on the controversial presidential age-limit bill.

The opposition has denounced the one-off payment as a "bribe" because MPs already get money to visit their constituencies, reports the BBC's Patience Atuhaire from the capital, Kampala.

The payment is seen as an attempt to gain the support of MPs for the bill, which seeks to remove the requirement that a presidential candidate be below the age of 75.

The opposition believes that the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) wants to push through the bill so that President Yoweri Museveni, 73, can run for a sixth term in 2021.

Uganda's state-linked New Vision newspaper reports, external that the eight MPs returned the money because they believe it was meant to "compromise" them.

Parliamentary officials announced that about $3.5m had been set aside for 445 legislators to facilitate consultations on the bill.

Each MP would get about $8,000 for use in their constituency in the next 15 days.

About 1,000 people have been protesting in Kenya's western Kisumu city against tomorrow's presidential election run-off, a Reuters news agency correspondent has tweeted from the scene:

The governor of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, has ordered police to prevent opposition leader Raila Odinga from addressing a mass rally at Uhuru Park later today, the privately owned Daily Nation newspaper reports, external.

Mr Odinga's National Super Alliance (Nasa) failed to follow proper procedures to book the venue, Mike Sonko said.

Mr Odinga's supporters are streaming to Uhuru Park, despite the order given by Mr Sonko, for what Nasa has described as a "crucial announcement" ahead of tomorrow's controversial presidential election re-run, the newspaper reports.

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The US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, is visiting South Sudan, tweets a UN-sponsored radio station:

She tweeted that South Sudan, which has been hit by conflict since 2013, should not be ignored:

US President Donald Trump appointed her as US envoy to the UN, despite her previously being a vocal critic of him.

Listen to BBC Radio 4's profile of her:

Amid fears that tomorrow's presidential election run-off could lead to violence, the main opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa) has tweeted:

President Uhuru Kenyatta is running for a second term.

The election commission has said that Mr Odinga's name will remain on the ballot paper, despite the fact that he is boycotting the election.

A business lobby group in Kenya has appealed for peace as the country holds a controversial presidential election re-run tomorrow, reports the privately-owned Standard newspaper, external.

The Hood Group urged both sides of the political divide to avoid escalating the crisis that has gripped Kenya since the disputed elections on 8 August.

"The economy continues to suffer from the demonstrations,” its chairman Nderitu Mwangi is quoted as saying.

About 70 people have been killed since the August poll, which was annulled by the Supreme Court.

Main opposition leader Raila Odinga is boycotting tomorrow's poll, saying the election commission has not taken enough steps to ensure it will be free and fair.

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Alastair Leithead
BBC Africa correspondent

Kenya’s presidential election is expected to go ahead as planned tomorrow after the Supreme Court was unable to hear a last-minute petition to have the re-run stopped.

The court was unable to gather enough judges to rule on whether the poll should go ahead.

The chief justice said that of the seven judges, only he and one other were available to hear the attempt to have the ballot stopped on the grounds that the electoral commission wasn’t ready to hold the vote.

Five judges are required for a quorum.

One judge has been ill for some time and is out of the country, one was unable to get a flight from another part of Kenya in time, two were unavailable for unspecified reasons, and a fifth – the deputy chief justice – did not attend after her car and bodyguard were attacked by an armed man last night.

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A lawyer for the opposition said this was evidence of intimidation and added that it would be "illegal and unconstitutional” for the commission to go ahead with the re-run.

Opposition supporters have reacted angrily to the failure of the court to hear the petition, raising fears of protest.

Supporters of Kenya's President Uhuru have been rallying outside the Supreme Court in the capital, Nairobi, to demand that tomorrow's presidential election run-off goes ahead.

Some of them were angry with the opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa) for calling for a boycott of the poll:

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Others showed their relief after the Supreme Court failed to hear a last-minute case brought by human rights groups, demanding the poll's cancellation:

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The governor of Kenya’s Kisumu county, an opposition stronghold, says that people will be justified in rebelling if tomorrow's presidential election re-run goes ahead, reports Reuters news agency.

“If the government subverts the sovereign will of the people... then people are entitled to rebel against this government,” Anyang Nyong‘o told Reuters.

Meanwhile, the BBC's Emmanuel Igunza has sent us this picture of opposition supporters protesting in Kisumu in western Kenya:

The presidential election re-run due in Kenya tomorrow will have no legitimacy because a High Court has ruled that the appointment of constituency-level electoral officers was illegal, an opposition lawyer has said, AFP news agency reports.

"It would be illegal and unconstitutional for them to move ahead with the election," lawyer James Orengo was quoted as saying.

The High Court ruling was earlier today, before the Supreme Court said it lacked a quorum to hear whether the electon can go ahead.

The Supreme Court is the highest court in the country.

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Kenya's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has disputed reports that a Constitutional Court judge has annulled the appointment of returning officers for tomorrow's presidential election re-run.

It has tweeted:

AFP's deputy bureau chief in East Africa explains why only two of the seven judges were in court to hear the case about tomorrow's presidential election run-off:

Kenya's presidential election re-run will go ahead tomorrow, a lawyer for the election commission has been quoted by Reuters news agency as saying.

The Kenyan Supreme Court has been unable to raise a quorum of judges to rule on whether the election should go ahead tomorrow.

The court has now adjourned, reports the BBC's East Africa bureau.

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A BBC correspondent has tweeted a photo of the scene outside Kenya's Supreme Court, as the nation awaits for its ruling on the fate of tomorrow's presidential election re-run:

Another BBC correspondent has tweeted:

There's a heavy police presence around the Kenyan Supreme Court as it prepares to consider a last-minute petition to cancel tomorrow's presidential election re-run.

Streets around the building in the capital, Nairobi, are blocked by barriers manned by officers in riot gear.

Human rights groups are seeking a delay in the vote, arguing that the election commission is not sufficiently prepared.

Meanwhile, the BBC's Odeo Sirari reports from Nairobi that in the High Court, a judge has ruled that the appointment of returning officers - expected to play a vital in overseeing the poll - was illegal.

If the ruling stands, there could be no-one to oversee tomorrow's vote, our reporter adds.

Kenya election watchers on Twitter are pointing out that this is one of several rulings expected today on the fate of tomorrow's poll:

The main opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, is boycotting the re-run, and international observer missions have scaled down plans to monitor voting because of security concerns.

President Uhuru Kenyatta insists the election will go ahead. The uncertainty has spawned protests and violence.

The BBC's Dickens Olewe sums up the feeling that there is no love lost between these two:

The crisis started after the Supreme Court annulled the August presidential election, saying it was marred by irregularities and illegalities.

Mr Kenyatta was declared the winner of the August vote, but Mr Odinga rejected the outcome.

It was the first time that a presidential poll in Kenya had been annulled, creating an unprecedented situation in East Africa's biggest economy.

Read: The brave judge who made Kenyan history

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Rwanda has decided to recall its ambassador to France after Defence Minister James Kabarebe was summoned to appear before a magistrate investigating the death of former President Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994, the Rwanda News Agency (RNA) has reported.

Jacques Kabale was recalled to Rwanda for "consultations", according to French publication Jeune Afrique.

This latest move comes after an anti-terrorism magistrate in France decided to summon Mr Kabarebe for questioning after a witness accused the Rwandan Patriotic Army - the former rebel group now in power in Kigali - of downing the plane carrying Mr Habyarimana on 6 April 1994, RNA reported.

France has not had an ambassador to Rwanda since the departure of Michel Flesch in 2015 after Kigali failed to approve the appointment of his successor.

The downing of the plane is considered to have helped fuel the genocide which left about 800,000 Rwandans dead.

Rwanda's government has repeatedly denied involvement in the shooting.

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