Sonwabile Ndamase made dresses for anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who died last week at the age of 81.

He tells the BBC how her activism influenced her taste in fashion.

Video journalist: Darren Wardrobe

Nick Cavell
BBC Africa Sport

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Kenya achieved their sixth clean sweep of the men’s 3,000m steeplechase at the Commonwealth Games in Australia.

World and Olympic champion Conseslus Kipruto won gold with Abraham Kibiwott second ahead of Amos Kirui, who edged out Canada’s Matthew Hughes on the line.

Kipruto also set a new games record.

Patience Atuhaire
BBC Africa, Kampala

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Uganda's government has announced that it will accept some 500 Eritreans and Sudanese refugees from Israel.

It follows speculation that some African countries had signed a deal to take in Africans being forcibly deported from Israel.

But Musa Ecweru, Uganda's minister for refugee issues, told journalists the move was solely based on their willingness to come to Uganda and would only include those who already had refugee status in Israel.

Upon arrival, they would be further checks to ensure they qualified as refugees, he said.

They would then be allowed to choose to live in refugee settlements or in urban areas.

The minister said their admission was based on a request from the Israeli government.

Uganda has been hailed worldwide for its open-door refugee policy and is currently hosting more than 1.4 million refugees from its neighbours and beyond.

The latest influx is from north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, which has the East African nation feeling the strain on its resources.

Earlier this month, the Israeli government cancelled a deal it had just made with the UN which would have seen more than 16,000 African migrants resettled in Europe and Canada and a similar number given temporary residence in Israel.

Chris Ewokor
BBC Africa, Abuja

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In a report to mark the fourth anniversary of the kidnapping of the Nigerian schoolgirls from the town of Chibok, the UN children’s charity (Unicef) says more than 1,000 children have been taken by Boko Haram militants in the north-east of the country since 2013.

On 14 April 2014, more than 200 girls were taken from their school in Chibok – and more than 100 of them are still in captivity.

Nearly two months ago, more 100 girls from another school were kidnapped. Most of them have now been freed, although one is still being held and five others lost their lives.

Earlier this week, the Nigerian army announced it had rescued 149 people, 95 of whom were children.

Unicef says children in the north-east continue to come under attack at a shocking scale.

According to Unicef's Nigeria representative Mohamed Malick Fall, the Chibok anniversary is a reminder that they are consistently targeted and exposed to brutal violence in their homes, schools and other public places.

Unicef said the repeated attacks were unconscionable, adding that more than 2,000 teachers had been killed and about 1,400 schools destroyed in nearly a decade of conflict.

Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language.

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Imogen Foulkes
BBC News, Geneva

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The UN is holding a donor conference today in Geneva, hoping to raise £1.7bn (£1.2bn) to ease what it calls a major humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

But in an unprecedented step, its government has refused to attend the event, alleging that the UN has exaggerated the scale of the problem.

Aid agencies say Dr Congo is suffering a long neglected, very serious, humanitarian crisis:

• 13 million people in need
• More than two million acutely malnourished children
• 4.5 million people displaced from their homes.

For the UN, that is a "level three crisis" - the most severe.

But that assessment has offended DR Congo.

It views "level three" as exaggerated, even insulting.

In an unprecedented move, it plans to boycott the conference.

UN officials say they still hope DR Congo's diplomats will change their minds and show up.

Whatever happens, the donor conference will go ahead: Aid workers say millions of lives are at stake.

Police in South Africa's city of Port Elizabeth have arrested and charged a 38-year-old man with murder after he threw his baby daughter from a rooftop during a protest against demolition of informal settlements, HeraldLIVE reports.

Police and municipal officials had on Thursday been demolishing about 150 shacks in the Joe Slovo settlement, which they said had been built on illegally occupied land.

The man, whose house was the last one standing, had been helped on to the roof top by a woman reported to be the girl's mother.

He was on the roof for five minutes, the report says, before he threw the little girl. Other residents had been shouting "throw, throw, throw", it adds.

The little girl was unharmed as police managed to catch her before she hit the ground.

The news site has shared the distressing video, external.

It also tweeted a photo of the little girl being led away from the scene:

Police spokesperson Andre Beetge is quoted as saying that the girl was doing well and added that they would be "getting social workers to deal with the matter”.

Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Addis Ababa

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Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed hosted a dinner reception last night for opposition leaders and promised to widen the democratic space here.

It was a rare, direct meeting between the government and the groups.

He told them that they should offer alternative solutions for solving Ethiopia’s worst political crisis in recent history.

In his speech, Mr Abiy said was ready to listen to alternative voices in a country where the government has often being accused of clamping down on the opposition and stifling media freedom.

He said his government was ready to open honest and constructive dialogue with the opposition.

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Today the prime minister is in the northern city of Mekelle today as he continues his nationwide tour days after he was sworn into office.

He has hit the ground running, visiting thousands of people displaced by inter-ethnic clashes and also toured an area that has been the epicentre of widespread demonstrations witnessed in the country since 2015.

Earlier this week, the US congress passed a resolution condemning the killings of innocent civilians during the protests.

Ethiopia, a staunch ally of the US in the fight against terrorism, has said the non-binding resolution was untimely and unfortunate.

The country is currently in a state of emergency imposed in February to deal with nearly three years of protests in which hundreds of people have been killed.

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And we leave you with this photo of South African gymnast Grace Legote competing today at the Commonwealth Games in Australia:

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Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has suspended two top sports officials after about 60 Ghanaians, posing as journalists, tried to illegally enter Australia for the Commonwealth Games.

Pius Enam Hadzide, the deputy minister for youth and sports, and Robert Sarfo Mensah, the director general of the national sports authority, have been suspended with immediate effect, presidency spokesman Eugene Arhin said in a statement.

"This decision has been taken following preliminary investigations conducted into the circumstances that led to the arrest of some 60 Ghanaians, who had allegedly attempted to enter Australia by false pretences," Mr Arhin said.

He added that three other officials - including the head of the delegation for Games, Mohammed Sahnoon - have been ordered to return from Australia to assist in police investigations.

Our colleagues at BBC Minute are profiling women who have left their jobs for a career in tech.

"My parents wanted me to get into politics but I realised it wasn't really me," says 26-year-old Abi Mohamed, a former student of International Relations and Economics.

After graduating and undertaking a range of work experience in the UK and Kenya, she discovered coding and decided share her newfound skills with other young people.

She now works as a software developer and engineer consultant at a start-up company called Community Growth Ventures, which invests in underrepresented entrepreneurs.

Listen to her story below:

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Uganda plans to impose a daily tax on social media users from July in a bid to raise revenue, Finance Minister Matia Kasaija has told Reuters news agency.

The move has been criticised by rights activist Rosebell Kagumire who said: “It’s part of a wider attempt to curtail freedoms of expression.”

Earlier this month, President Yoweri Museveni - who has been in power for more than 30 years - was quoted by Uganda's privately owned Daily Monitor newspaper as saying in a letter to Mr Kasaija and other officilas that a tax should be introduced on people who use social media for "gossip".

"I am not going to propose a tax on internet use for educational, research or reference purposes… these must remain free," he was quoted as saying.

The proposed tax will see each mobile phone subscriber who uses platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter being charged, Reuters reports.

The amount is unclear - Reuters reports that Mr Kasaija said it will be 200 Ugandan shillings ($0.027) a day, while State Minister for Planning David Bahati is quoted by the Daily Monitor as saying it will be 100 shillings.

“We’re looking for money to maintain the security of the country and extend electricity so that you people can enjoy more of social media, more often, more frequently,” Mr Kasaija told Reuters.

In his response, one Twitter user said:

A Danish man accused of murdering his Nigerian wife - a pop singer - and their three-year-old daughter is being held in a Lagos prison before his court hearing next month.

In court yesterday, Police Chief Superintendent Effiong Asuquo alleged that Peter Nielsen struck Zainab Nielsen's head against a wall and poisoned their daughter, Petra.

Their bodies were found last week at the family home in Lagos' wealthy Ikoyi neighbourhood.

Mr Nielsen's lawyer said in a statement quoted by local media yesterday that he was innocent until proven guilty.

"It is in the interest of justice that an opportunity is availed [to] Mr Nielsen to defend himself and that the investigation is transparent, factual and unbiased, lawyer Boma Alabi said.

Local media say Zainab Nielsen was and up-and-coming singer who performed under the stage name Alizee.

Temidayo Olofinsawo
BBC Yoruba editor, Lagos

This multi-story building is the talk of its neighbourhood in the Nigerian city of Lagos:

It has earned the nickname “the two-faced building” because one side of it is pristine and the other side is dilapidated.

We sent a reporter to the Bamgbose area of Lagos island to investigate why and found out its split personality stems from when it was bequeathed to two siblings after their father died.

According to tenants in the building, the sister renovated her half of the building, but her brother has not yet done so.

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

Politicians in Berlin have recommended changing street names that are associated with the bloody suppression of Namibians by the German colonial powers.

The idea of changing the street names in what is known as the "African Quarter" of the German capital has long been debated but now politicians from different parties have agreed to the move.

Historians refer to it as the first genocide of the 20th Century - when German colonisers killed thousands of people from the Herero and Nama ethnic groups in what was then South-West Africa.

Roads in Berlin's African Quarter bear the names of the men responsible for those crimes - like Lüderitzstraße - after Franz Adolf Lüderitz, the founder of South West Africa.

Now they are likely to be with replaced with names like Anna Kakurukaze Mungunda, a Herero woman who played a key role in Namibia's independence movement.

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Oluwashina Okeleji
BBC Sport

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Senegal defender Salif Sang will use an opt-out clause in his contract with Hannover to leave the German Bundesliga side at the end of the season.

The 27-year-old's deal was due to run until June 2020 but he will now join an unnamed club for next season.

"Salif Sané will not play for Hannover 96 in the coming season," a club statement read., external

"His big dream is to play again Champions League - and he gets the opportunity in the upcoming season."

Abdi Dahir
BBC Monitoring, Nairobi

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The speaker of Somalia's parliament, Mohamed Osman Jawari, has officially resigned, in an emotional speech in the chamber.

"Instead of dividing our parliament I decided to make a compromise and resign," Mr Jawari told MPs in a speech broadcast live on privately owned Somali Broadcasting Corporation TV.

"I would like to ask the Somali people for forgiveness if I have caused them any pain," Jawari said, while wiping away tears.

The 72-year-old veteran politician was elected speaker twice, on 28 August 2012 and 11 January 2017.

He resigned before completing his second term, following a one-month stand-off over a controversial no-confidence motion filed against him.

First Deputy Speaker Abdiweli Mudey will serve in Mr Jawari's post in an acting capacity until a new speaker is appointed.

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The man who lost the recent presidential election in Sierra Leone has filed a petition at the Supreme Court challenging the result.

Samura Kamara, the candidate of the governing APC party, says the process was flawed and wants the electoral commission to recount the votes.

The former military ruler, Julius Maada Bio, narrowly won the election with just under 52% of the votes.

At the weekend, Mr Kamara met President Maada Bio and congratulated him, even though he has refused to concede.

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World Cup-bound Tunisia have moved up nine places to number 14 on April's Fifa World Rankings, their highest ever position.

Their move comes on the back of 1-0 wins over Iran and Costa Rica in friendly matches in March.

It is the highest position for any African nation since Ivory Coast were ranked 13 in July 2013., external

Senegal, another team heading to Russia, are second on the continent and 28 globally.

Africa's other three World Cup teams are closely ranked on the overall list with Morocco at 42, Egypt 46 and Nigeria the lowest of the quintet at 47.

Tunisia nine-place gain was the biggest on the continent matched only by Tanzania, who are now 37 in Africa and 137 globally.

The Tanzanians gain comes after a 4-1 loss to Algeria and a 2-0 win over the highly-ranked DR Congo.

The biggest losers on the continent were Liberia who dropped 16 places to 151 overall and 45 in Africa.

Germany and Brazil remain first and second respectively on the global rankings with Belgium gaining two spots to grab third place.

Africa's Top Ten (global ranking in brackets):

1. Tunisia (14)

2. Senegal (28)

3. DR Congo (38)

4. Morocco (42)

5. Egypt (46)

6. Nigeria (47)

7. Cameroon (51)

7. Ghana (51)

9. Burkina Faso (53)

10. Cape Verde (58)