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Welcome to BBC Africa Live, where we will bring you the latest news and views from around the continent on Tuesday, 10 April.

That's all from the BBC Africa Live page today. Keep up-to-date with what's happening across the continent by listening to the Africa Today podcast or checking the BBC News website.

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And we leave you with this shot of the Kikuletwa hot springs in Tanzania.

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Somali's National Army Court has upheld the death sentence for Major Abdinassir Hosh, who stands accused of killing the deputy commander of the Somali Navy, Said Adan Yussuf, the Somali news site Goobjoog reports.

Yusuf was shot and killed in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in January and a month later, Mr Hosh was sentenced to death by firing squad for the crime, Goobjoog adds.

Mr Hosh subsequently appealed the decision but was overruled today.

The last refugees still in a camp in Darfur, western Sudan are returning home today as the site closes.

The UN has tweeted pictures from the refugee camp in Mukjar, 190km southwest of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur:

People from Chad sought refuge in Darfur over a decade ago despite Darfur having its own humanitarian crisis.

In 2006, fighting between government and rebel forces escalated after President Idriss Deby decided to amend the Chadian constitution to run for a third term.

An estimated 20,000 people fled conflict in Chad and sought refuge in Darfur, Irin news reported at the time., external

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Five rangers and their driver have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park, AFP news agency reports.

The park, which is famous for being home to gorillas and other endangered species, is Africa's oldest and was established in 1925.

A spokesman for Virunga, Joel Malembe, told AFP that the rangers were ambushed while driving near the Ugandan border.

The team's leader survived, though he was wounded in the attack.

Virunga spans 7,800 kilometres (3,011 miles) and runs along the border with Uganda and Rwanda.

Lions, elephants and hippos share the site with the gorillas but they come under frequent threat from poachers.

Runners in the annual Marathon des Sables are making the Sahara desert decidedly crowded, as these pictures from southern Morocco show.

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Competitors are taking part in stage two of the famous race.

It is a six-day, 250km (155-mile) run through the Sahara described as the toughest race of its kind.

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Moroccan athlete Mohamed El Morabity won the first stage of the race yesterday, reports Morocco World News, external.

But he lost the second stage to his older brother Rachid who has won five times.

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South Africa's Africa National Congress (ANC) party says it's unaware of a plot to undermine President Cyril Ramaphosa in next year's elections, Eyewitness News reports, external.

The story was first reported by the Sunday Times, external, which said supporters of former President Jacob Zuma were planning to push Mr Ramaphosa out of office in the upcoming elections.

Speaking to Eyewitness News, the ANC's spokesman Pule Mabe denied that there were any rifts in the party. "From where we're sitting, we're not aware of any plot like that and... the entirety of the organisation is united on the task that’s already been outlined to be the focus of this new leadership, which includes unity of renewal.”

The Sunday Times had said that the pro-Zuma group planned to split their votes by supporting the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal province, but voting for another party in the national ballot.

The candidate standing in KwaZulu-Natal province is Sihle Zikalala, a Zuma ally.

Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Johannesburg

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A former spy has spoken out about how his agency spread fake news about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela with the hope to discredit the entire ANC movement.

The admission comes nearly a week after her death.

Paul Erasmus, who was an operative for a unit called Stratcom, said Madikizela-Mandela was the target of the apartheid government's most concentrated propaganda campaign.

He said the unit spread false news about Madikizela-Mandela through media houses who were on their payroll.

Mr Erasmus added that Stratcom embedded agents in the Mandela Football club, a group of young men Madikizela-Mandela trusted with her life.

The football club was later implicated in a series of assaults and the murder of 14-year-old Stompie Seipie, a young activist who was believed to have been an apartheid spy at the time.

Madikizela-Mandela, who had repeatedly denied any wrong-doing, was found guilty of playing a role in the assault of the young activist but not of his murder.

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South Africa's constitutional court has dismissed a bid by the paralympian Oscar Pistorius to appeal against his 13-year murder sentence, Times LIVE reports, external.

Pretoria's High Court had sentenced the athlete to six years in prison in 2016, but this was increased to 13 years and five months last year.

It was this final decision that Pistorius wanted to contest.

He stands charged with the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.

Pistorius continues to maintain his innocence.

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Tunisia's religious affairs ministry has said it supports the government's plan to give women equal inheritance rights, Shems FM radio reports.

Religious Affairs Minister Ahmed Adhoum said his department backed the government, which has angered other religious clerics.

Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi announced the inheritance changes on 6 April, meeting a promise he made last year to improve women's rights

In 2017, the president promised to improve the inheritance laws and allow women to marry non-Muslim foreigners.

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Namibian President Hage Geingob has denied corruption accusations stemming from a French investigation, AFP news agency reports.

The investigation is looking into the purchase of Canadian mining company Uramin by French nuclear giant Areva.

Areva group spent 1.8bn euros ($2.2bn; £1.6bn) to buy Uramin and its uranium mines in Namibia, South Africa and Central African Republic.

But the investment turned into a financial disaster and French investigators launched an investigation into the deal.

Sources close to the French inquiry have told AFP that investigators are looking into monthly transfers of $10,000 to Mr Geingob made between 2008 and 2009.

But the lawyer for Mr Geingob told AFP that he is "not implicated" in the investigation.

Mr Geingob's lawyer, Sisa Namandje, added in the letter that the sums were paid to Geingob for "advisory work at Uramin" undertaken before his appointment as commerce and industry minister in 2008.

Tomi Oladipo
BBC Africa security correspondent

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South Sudan’s former army chief Paul Malong has formed a new rebel movement.

Mr Malong fell out with President Salva Kiir last year and was sacked from his post in May 2017.

He was then held under house arrest for six months.

Despite this, he remains one of South Sudan’s most powerful men – with influence in the military, politics and business.

He is accusing President Kiir and those around him of massive corruption and leading the nation to bankruptcy.

Mr Malong says he intends to bring South Sudan’s security crisis under control and steer the country towards democracy and development.

He wants to join in the next round of talks between the government and opposition, which will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia later this month.

However, he’s making these statements while also announcing a rebel movement.

It’s these ambitions that the government feared last year when it placed him under house arrest, accusing him of planning to mobilise militants for a rebellion.

The UN has also accused Mr Malong of coordinating ethnically-motivated attacks against civilians during South Sudan’s 2013 civil war.

Alex Duval Smith
BBC Africa, Dakar

Mali's defence minister has ordered an investigation into the alleged execution of 14 civilians last week by soldiers of the national army.

Defence Minister Tiena Coulibaly has promised to investigate conflicting reports from the military and the victims' families about how the deaths occurred.

The army says 14 terrorist suspects were killed last Thursday in Dioura, in central Mali, after they had been arrested and tried to escape.

But the victims' families say the 14 had nothing to do with extremism.

Human rights activists claim the army have been targeting Malians from the Fulani ethnic group.

Last week, Amnesty International reported a similar incident where six Fulanis had been found in a grave in the town of Dogo three days after they were arrested by the military.

Mali's Fulanis have a fractious history with the authorities. Many of them are cattle herders and their nomadic work brings them into conflict with sedentary people.

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A scheme to defraud the Angolan government aimed to take $1.5bn (£1.1bn), Reuters news agency reports the Angolan finance ministry as saying.

The son of the former president, Jose Filomeno dos Santos has already been accused of being involved in the scheme.

Angolan prosecutors also named the former central bank governor Valter Filipe da Silva as suspects in the case.

The latest claim from the finance ministry says the scheme dates back to August last year - the month Mr dos Santos's father was replaced in elections.

In a statement, the ministry said those involved in the fraud claimed the money would secure financing for Angola of $35bn.

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The South African swimmer Cameron van der Burgh has won the men's 50 metre breaststroke at the Commonwealth Games.

His was a surprise victory, since British swimmer Adam Peaty was tipped to take the gold.

But with van der Burgh surging ahead, Peaty had to make do with silver.

South Africa took another gold in the men's 100 metre butterfly, with Chad le Clos taking first place.

Follow all the Commonwealth Games action here.

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Nigeria, Cameroon and other states have renewed their support for the International Criminal Court (ICC) following the March election of Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji as president.

In a letter of congratulations to the Nigerian judge, the Nigerian government pledged its "continued backing and unflinching support," according to a press release from the ICC.

Similar expressions of support have come in from countries worldwide and from the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Mr Eboe-Osuji presided over the trial of Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto, although the case was eventually dropped.

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South Africa's Akani Simbine has won gold in the men's 100 metre final at the Commonwealth Games.

He and fellow South African Henricho Bruintjies took first and second place, leaving Jamaican athlete Yohan Blake to take third.

Blake had been the favourite to win but seemed to stagger coming out of the blocks.

Elsewhere on the track, Stella Chesang won gold for Uganda in the women's 10,000 metre race.

Follow all the Commonwealth Games action here.

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Dyan Buis and Charl Du Toit have just grabbed silver and bronze in the men's para 100 metre race in the Commonwealth games.

They were beaten to gold by Australia's Evan O’Hanlon.

Australian news site news.com.au, external reports that 29-year-old O'Hanlon has competed in the cerebral palsy classification for 12 years and had indicated that the Commonwealth Games could be his final competition.

Human rights campaigner and former BBC journalist, Zenaida Machado has tweeted that Mozambique's culture minister threatened to sue an artist after she posed naked wearing only the national flag:

The news has attracted mixed reactions with some criticising the model.

But others have said she's being unfairly treated.