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And we leave you with this photo of a man taking a photo earlier today at the launch of West Africa's largest solar power farm in Burkina Faso:

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Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo

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Conservationists have launched an operation to capture nearly 100 buffaloes which crossed into Mozambique from South Africa.

This will be a huge relief to Mozambicans along the border as the buffaloes have devastated their crops.

The buffaloes left a South African game park because of a drought, and entered southern Mozambique's Matutuine district in search of food and water.

The captured buffaloes are not going to be sent back to South Africa.

Instead, they are to be relocated to the Maputo Special Reserve in the hope that they will attract tourists.

The head of the reserve, Natercio Ngovene, said:

Buffaloes - along with lions, leopards, rhinos and elephants - are referred to as the "big five" beasts of Africa.

Rana Jawad
BBC North Africa correspondent

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US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for an investigation into “the extrajudicial killings” of 36 men in eastern Libya.

Their bodies were discovered in an open field in Al-Abyar town in late October.

Forces loyal to military strongman Khalifa Haftar, who commands most forces in the east, control the town.

This is not the first case of its kind implicating forces loyal to Libya’s self-styled army.

Relatives of victims interviewed by HRW say forces loyal to Field Marshal Hafter took the men from their homes.

Pictures that circulated online back in October showed most of the victims with their hands bound behind their backs lying in pools of blood with what appears to be gunshot wounds to the head.

It’s not clear if any of them were fighters opposed to Field Marshal Hafter. Some of the relatives said they were civilians.

Libya’s eastern-based forces have been locked in a protracted battle against various Islamist militias for the last three years.

Read more: Libya's strongman Khalifa Haftar

David Wafula
BBC Africa, Nairobi

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The father of a seven-year-old boy shot dead in Kenya during clashes between the police and opposition protesters is demanding justice for his only son.

Geoffrey Mutinda was killed on Tuesday while he was playing on the balcony of an apartment block in the capital, Nairobi.

His father, Peter Mutuku, told me that he last saw Geoffrey when he said he was going to a neighbour’s flat to watch television as their own TV set was broken.

People in the street below were demonstrating against President Uhuru Kenyatta's swearing-in as the opposition had boycotted last month’s election.

Mr Kenyatta was officially re-elected with 98% of the vote but just under 39% of voters turned out last month. The original election on 8 August was annulled because of irregularities.

Mr Mutuku said he was out when the shooting happened:

Witnesses told him that the shooter was not wearing a police uniform but he was believed to be in the security forces.

Mr Mutuku added:

The civilian police watchdog agency, Ipoa, is now investigating the case.

The distraught father added:

The police have denied using live rounds when breaking up such protests.

Tomorrow, the families of at least five people killed when opposition supporters had gathered to welcome home their leader Raila Odinga from an overseas trip earlier this month are to collect bodies from the city mortuary.

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Thousands of people have protested in Togo's capital, Lome, to demand an end to the Eyadema dynasty's 50-year rule, AFP news agency reports.

The march was the first of three planned for this week to step up pressure on President Faure Gnassingbe to resign.

He became president in 2005, following the death of his father, Gnassingbe Eyadema, who ruled Togo for 38 years.

Unfazed by the protests, Mr Gnassingbe flew to Ivory Coast to attend the summit between African and European leaders.

Last week, he said talks were being planned with the opposition.

The leader of the opposition National Alliance for Change party, Jean-Pierre Fabre, led today's protest in Lome.

He told AFP:

At least 16 people have been killed in three months of protests.

Opposition parties believe the government wants to amend the constitution so that the president can run for another two terms - in 2020 and 2025.

They say the amendment should impose a two-term limit, and it should be applied retrospectively, so that Mr Gnassingbe is ruled out as a candidate at the end of his two terms.

Read more: African dynasties in power

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West Africa’s biggest solar farm has been launched in Burkina Faso.

It is a 33-megawatt plant designed to power tens of thousands of households, AFP news agency reports.

French President Emmanuel Macron, who is on a visit to the region, joined his Burkinabe counterpart Roch Marc Kabore for the inauguration of the 55-hectare (135-acre) farm in Zaktubi, outside the capital, Ouagadougou.

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According to AFP, it cost $56.7m (£42.2m) to build and was funded by donations from the European Union and a loan from France's development agency.

Only about 20% of Burkina Faso's 17 million population has access to the electricity grid – with many people using wood or bottled butane gas, AFP says.

The country hopes to meet 30% its electricity needs through solar power by 2030, it adds.

Two other plants are also being planned.

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Young offenders in a Senegalese prison are being taught how to use swords to learn respect.

The teenagers are being given fencing lessons in Thiès Prison.

A charity started the initiative five years ago and says it is helping to reduce re-offending rates and that prisoners have become calmer as a result.

It's also a chance for the inmates to meet members of the opposite sex. Watch them at play:

Video journalist: Maxime Le Hegarat Editor: Raïssa Ioussouf

Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo

A mob has killed six men near Mozambique's industrial town of Matola in a lynching, after accusing them of robbing, killing and sexually abusing women and girls.

The mob alleged that one of the members of the gang - dubbed machete men - was a policeman.

Lynchings are quite common in Mozambique, apparently because of a shortage of police patrols in residential neighbourhoods.

Police spokesman Antonio Bachir said he could not confirm or deny whether one of the gang members was a policeman.

He said the six were part of an eight-man gang and that police were searching for the remaining two members.

He urged the public not to take the law into their own hands.

Ishaq Khalid
BBC Africa, Abuja

About 4,000 government employees in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state have been sacked, sparking outrage among trade unions.

The state government said the workers, mainly in administrative posts, were unproductive, and were dismissed to reduce the "bloated bureaucracy" and the wage bill.

Their dismissal is the latest shock for government employees: earlier this month, 22,000 teachers were fired after they failed a competency test.

Labour unions say the government is sacking the workers to hire those loyal to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) party, whivh took power in elections in 2015.

They have vowed to challenge the dismissals in court.

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Ruona Meyer
BBC Pidgin, Lagos

As more than 80 heads of governments from Europe and Africa meet to focus on youth issues, 242 Nigerians in that age bracket are trying to settle in back home after being repatriated from Libya late last night.

Nikki Laoye, who witnessed the event at Lagos airport and ran live commentary on her Instagram page, told BBC Pidgin:

Ms Laoye - who is a popular singer and an ambassador for Nigeria’s national commission for refugees, migrants and internally displaced persons - shared videos of the returnees touching the tarmac with relief.

She said they had harrowing tales of their experiences:

The agency worked with the International Organization on Migration (IOM) and Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) to repatriate the migrants.

In the last 10 months, 3,480 young Nigerian migrants have been returned from Libya under this arrangement.

President Buhari has promised that all Nigerians stranded in Libya will be repatriated and "rehabilitated" - and reacted angrily to footage of Nigerians "being sold like goats" in slave markets (see earlier post).

Shingai Nyoka
BBC Africa, Harare

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Some Zimbabweans will see the acquittal of #ThisFlag Pastor Evan Mawarire as a symbolic victory, coming just days after the forced resignation of long-serving ruler Robert Mugabe and the inauguration of his former deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, as president.

But the acquittal was expected, as when the pastor was given bail, a judge hinted that the case against him was weak.

Political campaigning on social media is one of the reasons why Mr Mugabe's government created the ministry of cyber security, and kicked off the process of drafting laws to regulate social media.

The former government - in which Mr Mnangagwa served as vice-president before his dramatic fall-out with Mr Mugabe - said the laws would help curb the spread of "cyber terrorism" and "revenge porn".

But media activists expressed fear that it would be used to crackdown on free speech.

With Mr Mnangagwa having promised a "new era of democracy", it is to be seen whether the proposed legislation addresses the concerns of activists - and whether he retains the cyber security ministry in what he says will be a "lean" cabinet.

Read more: The 'crocodile' who snapped back

Mary Harper
Africa editor, BBC World Service

Officials in South Sudan say 50 people have been killed in ethnic clashes in the eastern state of Jonglei.

They said members of the Murle ethnic group attacked Dinka villages, burning homes and stealing livestock.

Women and children are said to have been abducted.

Violence linked to cattle raiding is common in South Sudan, which has also been affected by years of civil war.

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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has said all Nigerians stranded in Libya will be brought home and be “rehabilitated”.

Reacting to recent footage showing Africans for sale at a slave auction in Libya, President Buhari said it was appalling that “some Nigerians where being sold like goats for [a] few dollars in Libya’’.

He also seemed to question whether Libyans had learnt anything useful since former leader Muammar Gaddafi was ousted in 2011.

‘‘All they learned was how to shoot and kill. They didn’t learn to be electricians, plumbers or any other trade,’’ he said.

In the video, released by CNN earlier this month, youths from sub-Saharan countries were seen being sold as farm workers to buyers for about $400 (£300) at undisclosed locations in Libya., external

Nigeria’s president also vowed to reduce the number of Nigerians making the dangerous journey through the Sahara desert and over the Mediterranean to reach Europe.

This would be done by providing education, healthcare, and food security at home, a statement from the presidency said.

Mr Buhari made the comments at a session with the Nigerian diaspora on the sidelines of the African Union-European Union Summit in the Ivorian city of Abidjan .

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The UK could help Zimbabwe's new government to stabilise its currency system and could give it a bridging loan to clear World Bank and African Development Bank debts, but this was conditional on "democratic progress", Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said, Reuters news agency reports.

Speaking at the lines of an AU-EU summit in Ivory Coast, Mr Johnson added:

The UK, Zimbabwe's former colonial power, imposed sanctions on officials in the government of ousted President Robert Mugabe after condemning its controversial land reform programme and human rights record.

Egyptian Basem Eltahhan is Africa's only professional snooker player and will be taking part in the upcoming UK Championship.

He earned a two-year card on the World Snooker tour after winning the 2017 African Championship.

Snooker has been dominated by European players throughout its history, with just three world champions from outside the continent in 90 years.

Eltahhan, whose name translates to "the man who smiles" in Arabic, is the world number 131 and has not earned a penny on the tour.

The BBC's Jamie Broughton met him ahead of his toughest challenge yet - taking on world number one Mark Selby:

Read more: World number 131 - Basem Eltahhan - all smiles

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Zimbabwe's #ThisFlag movement Pastor Evan Mawarire has warned new President Emmerson Mnangagwa to respect the democratic rights of people - or risk a fate similar to his ousted predecessor Robert Mugabe, the AFP news agency reports.

Speaking to reporters after his acquittal on charges of plotting to overthrow Mr Mugbae's government, the pastor said:

High Court Priscilla Chigumba threw out the charges against the pastor, saying he had called for peaceful protests over the economic crisis - not the "violent removal of government", AFP reports.

Pastor Mawarire became the poster boy of the social media campaign against Mr Mugabe's government, using the national flag to show his patriotism and to urge people to demand change.

He was repeatedly hounded by the security forces, and briefly went into exile before returning to Zimbabwe.

Welcoming the ruling, he said:

See earlier post for more details

East Africa's best-known cartoonist Gado satirises Emmanuel Macron's visit to Africa as the French president promises a new approach to relations with the continent.

In Burkina Faso, he said he was "from a generation that would not tell Africans what to do".

But given France's colonial legacy, the cartoonist suggests it will be hard policy to change:

BBC World Service

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Egypt's president has told the military it can use all force necessary to secure the Sinai Peninsula following last week's attack on a mosque that killed more than 300 people.

Abdul Fattah al-Sisi ordered the army to secure and stabilise the region within three months.

No group has yet said it carried out the attack, although there's considerable evidence pointing to the Egyptian branch of so-called Islamic State.

There has been unrest and violence in the northern Sinai for many years, but it has intensified recently.

The Egyptian authorities have vowed to end it before, but failed.

Read more: Who are Egypt's militant groups?

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Botswana has played a central role in Prince Harry's fairytale romance with US actress Meghan Markle.

It was after just two dates the already-smitten royal decided to whisk his future bride off to the country to enjoy five nights camping under the African stars.

He has described the continent as the place "where I feel more like myself than anywhere else in the world".

To read more about the UK royal family's love affair with Africa, click here

Ata Ahli Ahebla
BBC Afrique

A compilation of recordings made during the 1970s in Burkina Faso has been nominated for two Grammy Awards, which take place next year.

Bobo Yéyé, Belle Époque in Upper Volta has been selected for the Best Historical Album and the Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition.

The set of three discs of 37 songs includes tracks by legendary bands such as Volta Jazz, Dafra Star, Echo Del Africa and Les Imbattables Leopard.

It also shines a light on Bobo-Dioulasso's music scene in the years leading up to the 1983 coup led by Thomas Sankara, an anti-imperialist revolutionary known as “Africa’s Che Guevara”.

Bobo-Dioulasso is the second largest city of Burkina Faso and is considered as the cultural capital of the country.

There’s another contender for Africa in the Best Historical Album category - Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes From The Horn Of Africa

Here's a selection of some of the tracks on the album: