That's all from the BBC Africa Live page today - all our stories from Monday to Friday are below.

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We leave you with our favourite shots from our picture gallery of Africa's week. An admirer of anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, whose funeral will be held in South Africa tomorrow:

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And a woman riding a motorbike through a market in the Nigeria city of Makurdi in Benue state:

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Famous Kenyan conservationist Daphne Sheldrick has died at the of 83, her wildlife charity has announced.

Her daughter said in a statement , externalthat she had passed away on Thursday after a long battle with breast cancer.

Angela Sheldrick added:

It said that she was the first person to successfully hand raise a milk-dependent newborn elephant and rhino, "knowledge that has seen more than 230 orphaned elephants saved in Kenya".

The charity she started is world-renowned for the care it gives orphaned elephants.

"She died knowing that she will continue to make a difference each and every day," her daughter said.

Musician Koffi Olomide has announced that he will be performing in Kenya on 24 April, his first return after he was deported from the East African country in July 2016 for assaulting one of his female dancers.

He said in a video message that he had been invited to perform at a high-profile national conference that brings together Kenya's 47 county leaders and is usually attended by the president and top government officials.

The 61-year-old rumba singer has apologised several times for his behaviour in Kenya.

In his promotional video for the upcoming tour - posted on YouTube - he tells his Kenyan fans, "I miss you so much, I love you."

Watch the full video:

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The Democratic Republic of Congo says it has boycotted the donor conference in Geneva because it does not like to be portrayed as a failed state.

The Congolese ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Zenon Mukongo Nga, told the BBC such an assessment made people angry.

The UN says more than 13 million Congolese need humanitarian aid, external, calling it a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.

But he said the UN did not have information about the real situation in DR Congo:

The Congolese government had wanted to discuss this discrepancy before the conference but that they did not find a common ground which was why the country was not participating, he said.

It's the fourth anniversary tomorrow of the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls taken from their school in Chibok by Boko Haram militants.

More than 100 of them remain in captivity, including Sarah Samuel, who wrote many of the entries in a diary smuggled out by her friend when she was released last year.

The girls used exercise books, given to them for the Koranic classes they were made to attend, to chronicle some of their experiences.

Last year, journalist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani spoke to one of freed Chibok girls about how they managed to keep the diary a secret.

Read her account of the Chibok diaries: Chronicling a Boko Haram kidnapping

Catherine Byaruhanga
BBC Africa, Kywangwali camp, Uganda

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More than 40,000 people from Democratic Republic of Congo have settled here in Uganda’s Kyangwali refugee camp since the beginning of the year, fleeing violence.

These are some of 13 million Congolese the UN is trying to raise funds for at a donor conference in Geneva today (see earlier post).

It can be hard to comprehend such large numbers.

As we drove to meet some of the Congolese families in western Uganda, the mass of white tarpaulin tents just kept on going and going.

Parents, children and grandparents can find themselves huddled in one of these small structures that they hurriedly put up.

Finding fresh, clean water is difficult. Sanitation is not what it should be, providing an easy opportunity for diseases like cholera.

It’s the tail end of an outbreak here that has killed more 40 people, with 2,000 others being treated in hospital.

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The majority of the people in Kywangwali are fleeing the ethnic clashes in Ituri province.

Some tell me their attackers were friends and neighbours. No-one knows how many have been killed in the fighting - it’s still too dangerous to count.

This is also not the first time many of them have fled – and some are giving up on the idea of going back.

Rana Jawad
BBC North Africa correspondent

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Funerals have been held in Algeria for some of the victims of Wednesday's plane crash.

Most of the 257 people who died when the plane came down were members of the military and their families, who were travelling to another army base in the country.

The deadly incident was Algeria’s worst air disaster in its modern aviation history.

The aircraft came down in a field just after taking off from Boufarik military airport, west of the capital, Algiers.

Witnesses and aviation experts say the pilot appeared to try and crash land in an unpopulated area.

Some reported seeing a wing catch fire before the crash.

In the days or weeks to come, the investigation is expected to shed some light on what caused the accident.

Ahead of tomorrow's funeral for South Africa's anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie-Madikizela Mandela, people have been gathering at her home in Johannesburg to witness a guard of honour to pay tribute to her life.

The BBC's Nomsa Maseko has shared these pictures:

Our correspondent says that traditions that will be observed include slaughtering of a cow, a ritual meant to appease the ancestors.

She adds:

Click her to see an interactive timeline of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's tumultuous life.

Abdi Dahir
BBC Monitoring, Nairobi

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Somalia's south-western regional administration has given $15,000 (£10,000) to an al-Shabab defector, local media reports.

He was reportedly an official in the Islamist militant group and came over to the government's side in January.

He arrived in the regional capital Baidao in a vehicle with a machine-gun mounted on the back, which he handed over to the authorities.

Al-Shabab often rewards government soldiers who defect to the militants' ranks by giving money equivalent to the price of their guns.

During celebrations yesterday to mark the 58th anniversary of Somalia's national army, President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo reiterated his offer of an amnesty to those fighting for al-Shabab if they surrendered.

He first declared the amnesty after his election last year and since then many al-Shabab fighters, some of whom were senior commanders, have surrendered.

Read: Who are Somalia's al-Shabab?

BBC Africa Business Report

Residents in the Nigerian city of Lagos have been protesting about a controversial tax increase by the state government.

Annual charges on property have been increased by more than 200% (although subsequently slashed by up to 50% for commercial properties).

Nigeria continues to recover from recession and residents say that any increase will prove crippling for the city. Watch:

Ogechi Obidiebube
BBC Pidgin, Lagos

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A video of esteemed Nigerian Pastor E A Adeboye admonishing Christians who do not pay tithes - the practice of giving 10% of their earnings to the church - has enraged some Nigerians on social media.

In the recording, Pastor Adeboye can be heard saying to his congregation:

Some of the tweeters wondered on what authority he was making his statement:

But a few others were in full support of the pastor:

Pastor Adeboye, who heads the Redeemed Christian Church of God - one of the biggest churches in Nigeria - has been listed by Forbes as one of the richest clerics in the world with a net worth of $130m (£91m).

Tithing has become a heated topic here.

Another respected pastor, Tunde Bakare, told BBC Yoruba earlier this year that tithing was not compulsory.

Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo

More than 1.5 tonnes of ivory - equivalent to the tusks from 90 elephants - have been seized from a container in Maputo harbour disguised as resin and covered with recycled plastic bottles, custom authorities in Mozambique say.

The cargo was due to be exported to Cambodia.

Officials described the find the country's largest-ever seizure of elephant tusks.

Fernando Tinga, spokesperson for the Maputo tax authority, says that they were detected thanks to scanners at the port.

Mr Tinga said the cargo was being shipped by a Mozambican company that specialised in the production of plastic.

So far, no-one has been detained in connection with the case

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Imogen Foulkes
BBC News, Geneva

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The UN says it hopes to have raised $530m (£371m) by the close of today's pledging conference to ease the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (see earlier post).

The UN has requested $1.7bn for DR Congo and aid officials say they did not hope to raise the full amount in Geneva.

Nevertheless the expected $530n falls far short.

DR Congo's government has boycotted the conference, saying the UN's estimation of 13 million people in need is an exaggeration.

Read the BBC News story for more

Nick Cavell
BBC Africa Sport

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Nigeria’s Oluwatobiloba Amusan has won gold in the women’s 100m hurdles ahead of two Jamaicans Danielle Williams and Yanique Thompson.

Rwanda's weightlifting coach at the Commonwealth Games has been missing since Tuesday after excusing himself to use the toilet, Rwandan chef de mission Nzabaterura Eugene has told The Australian, external.

“He [Jean Paul Nsengiyumva] was at Carrara Stadium with an athlete for the competition there and before the end of the competition the coach went to the toilet and from then we realised he was not in the stadium or the [athletes'] village,” Mr Eugene is quoted as saying.

“We had a chat to police and administration in the village. All of his stuff is in the room.”

His disappearance is similar to that of 13 athletes at the Games, which are being held in the Gold Coast region of Australia.

The local authorities have revealed that more than 40 people, including athletes and journalist, have inquired about staying in Australia.

They say they are expecting more desertions as the Games end this weekend.

Abdi Dahir
BBC Monitoring

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Four people watching a local football match in Barawe, a town in southern Somalia controlled by government forces, have been killed in an attack by Islamist al-Shabab militants.

At least 10 others were also injured in the attack on Tabuuk Stadium.

The al-Qaeda-linked group hid the device under the seats and says it was targeting Somali soldiers, but eyewitnesses said all the victims were civilians.

Last month, al-Shabab ordered the closure of all football stadiums in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

The UN-backed government told pitch owners not to obey, but more than 20 grounds have closed in the Karaan, Yaqshid and Heliwaa districts of the city.

This latest attack could further worry players and ground owners from engaging in sporting activities.

Al-Shabab already bans the playing of football and the watching of matches on TV in the areas it controls.

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BBC Africa Business Report

A small-scale manufacturer in Cape Town is taking recycled paper and offcut timber and turning them into over 80 varieties of wooden sunglasses.

The BBC's Africa Business Report went along to meet the South African entrepreneur Alistair Barnes to find out more.

Watch:

Nick Cavell
BBC Africa Sport

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Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei has won his second gold of the Commonwealth Games with victory in the 10,000m to go with his victory in the 5,000m race.

He beat Canada’s Somali-born Mohammed Ahmed, who won silver, with Kenya’s Rogers Kwemoi claiming bronze.

Cheptegei won silver at the World Championships in London last year behind Mo Farah.

Nick Cavell
BBC Africa Sport

South African Caster Semenya has bagged another gold in the Commonwealth Games in Australia after winning the women's 800m final.

She finished in one minute 56.68 seconds - two seconds ahead of Margaret Nyairera Wambui of Kenya in second and Natoya Goule of Jamaica in third - setting a Games record.

She had already won the 1,500m women's final and also broke a Games record by clocking 4:00.71 seconds.

Mozambique’s failure to investigate recent killings and assaults of prominent critics is creating an environment of fear for activists, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.

Six activists told the US-based rights body that they were living in fear after receiving threatening messages for criticising the government.

In a statement, HRW highlighted the case of journalist and political commentator Ericino de Salema, who was abducted last month and found unconscious on a road outside the capital, Maputo, hours later.

Mr Salema, who often takes positions critical of government policies on a leading TV show, said he had received threatening phone calls before his abduction on 27 March.

He said the abductors said they had been sent to “teach him a lesson”:

Dewa Mavhinga, HRW's southern Africa director, said of the incident:

The police investigations unit has publicly promised to investigate these cases, but HRW says it has not identified any suspects yet.