Scroll down for Friday's storiespublished at 17:42 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
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BBC Africa Live
Dickens Olewe & Natasha Booty
That's all from the BBC Africa Live page this week. Keep up-to-date with what's happening across the continent by listening to the Africa Today podcast or checking the BBC News website.
A reminder of today's wise words:
Quote MessageAn egg never sits on a hen."
Sent by Aley Daud Kantande in Lilongwe, Malawi
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We leave you with this photo of a Kenyan police band during the celebration making 55 years of self-rule. It's one of our favourite pictures taken this week.
And, as a bonus, we're sharing this picture taken recently of a fearless hippo attempting to intimidate a helicopter. The aircraft was brought in to remove the animal after it attacked a baby hippo: