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Leading Mugabe critic Pastor Evan Mawarire has told the BBC there is more to be done to give Zimbabwean citizens a voice - despite indications change is afoot.

Mr Mawarire spoke to Newsday after the court dismissed charges of trying to overthrow Robert Mugabe's former government, which were leveled against him after he organised last year's #ThisFlag protests.

He had faced 20 years in prison had he been convicted and many pointed to the decision as a sign things were changing in Zimbabwe following the resignation of Mr Mugabe.

But Mr Mawarire warned the new president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was still part of the old ruling party.

He also spoke of the challenge of encouraging people to speak up, after years of fearing the consequences of criticising their government.

Hear more from Newsday here.

Celebrities including the US rappers TI and Cardi B are voicing their anger at migrants being sold as slaves in Libya.

A tweet from the American pastor TD Jakes highlighting the issue was retweeted 5,000 times.

There has been world-wide outrage after CNN published video earlier this month, external showing black Africans being auctioned.

Thousands of Sub-Saharan Africans have found themselves trapped in Libya after trying, and failing, to get to Europe.

In April the International Office of Migration reported that Africans trying to reach Europe were being sold in "slave markets" in Libya.

Victims described being taken to town squares or car parks to be sold, after being detained by people smugglers or militia groups.

Over 100 Ghanaians who had been detained in Libya, have returned after the government secured a chartered flight to bring them home.

They went to Libya with the hope of getting to Europe but ended up in detention centres as illegal migrants.

Their return follows world-wide outrage over footage of Sub-Saharan Africans being auctioned as slaves in the country.

African and European leaders have been discussing the issue at a meeting in Ivory Coast, and have drawn up a "Marshall Plan for Africa" to try and deal with the problem.

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A documentary shining a light on male attitudes to women in South Africa has sparked a heated debate on Twitter.

The People vs Patriarchy documentary aired on MTV Africa last night - with lines like "never hesitate to discipline your wives, a good spanking won't kill them".

It's provoked a strong reaction on Twitter:

The documentary was meant to "hold a mirror" to the reason #MenAreTrash began trending earlier this year.

The hashtag was started in response to the high rate of women being murdered and abused in South Africa.

Documentary maker Lebogang Rasethaba said he hoped it would start a dialogue during a chat with South African website Between 10 and 5 , externalearlier this week:

You can get a taste for what the documentary was about here:

Nigerian superstar Wizkid has won Best International Artist in the Mobos in London.

Nigerian media are reporting, external that he is the first African act to do so.

One of his biggest songs is a collaboration with the Canadian star Drake:

The Mobos - which stands for music of black origin - started in 1996.

So, if Pulse Newspaper is correct, it is surprising that this is the first time an African has won.

But there is also a category for best African act, which Nigerian superstar Davido won this year.

One of his biggest songs of 2017 is Fall:

So the suggestion is that, because there is already an African category in the awards, Africans are forgotten about in the International category.

The big winner of the Mobos this year is British-Ghanaian Stormzy.

He picked up three awards - best male act, best grime act and won best album for Gang Signs & Prayer.

The London star broke into the mainstream this year with a number one album and top 10 single, Big For Your Boots.

Stormzy is not the only British African who is a big grime star. Skepta and JME are both British-Nigerian.

Read more about the big winners on BBC Newsbeat.

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The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates, Anwar Gargash, has denied that the former Egyptian prime minister Ahmed Shafiq is being prevented from travelling to Cairo.

Mr Shafiq, who's said he's intending to stand as a candidate in the next Egyptian presidential election, appeared on Al Jazeera television to say he was being barred from leaving.

He told news agency AFP:

But the UAE minister denied this, saying his country had been hosting Mr Shafiq after he left Egypt, despite "strong reservations about some of his positions".

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Tanzania has been hit by a nationwide blackout due to a technical fault in its national power grid. The country's electricity supply company, Tanesco, said it was still trying to fix the fault.

Partial blackouts occur regularly in Tanzania, which relies on hydro, natural gas and heavy fuel oil to generate electricity. Many businesses use power generators as a back-up.

Saudi Arabia has expelled more than 1,300 Ethiopians "in recent days" after a deadline for undocumented migrants to leave the oil-rich kingdom voluntarily expired, Ethiopia's foreign ministry is quoted by the associated Press news agency as saying.

Ethiopia's government is working with Saudi Arabia to safely return its citizens home, the ministry's director general of diaspora affairs, Demeke Atinafu, told the state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate, external.

More than 70 000 Ethiopians have returned home since Saudi Arabia issued a decree in March, ordering all undocumented migrants leave.

The deadline was later extended to June but the majority of migrants remained in the Gulf state where they mostly work as domestic workers and on farms, AP reports.

Campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) estimates that Ethiopian migrants around the world sent home more than $4bn in 2015 to boost the income of struggling relatives.

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