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Lord Sugar has been criticised for an "unhelpful and ignorant" tweet comparing Senegal's World Cup team to sellers on the "beach in Marbella".

A picture of the team was posted next to pictures of sunglasses and handbags.

Lord Sugar, a 71-year-old British billionaire businessman who appears on the BBC's The Apprentice, later deleted the post and apologised, saying "my attempt at humour has backfired":

The tweet prompted hundreds of critical responses, including from tweeters accusing him of racism:

The BBC welcomed Lord Sugar's apology in a tweet:

Cristiano Ronaldo scores for Portugal in the opening minutes of the match against the Atlas Lions in Moscow.

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Morocco fans are out in force in Moscow for their World Cup match against Portugal.

Morocco's nickname is the Atlas Lions and one or two fans have turned up in the correct headwear.

The match starts in about 10 minutes. You can follow blow-by-blow coverage on our football live page, though we'll be bringing you highlights from the match as well.

At least 10 subsistence miners have been killed after a mine dump collapsed in Kitwe, Zambia's second-biggest city and copperbelt mining hub, police have said.

"So far we have retrieved 10 dead bodies and seven bodies of those injured," Copperbelt province police commissioner Charity Katanga was quoted by AFP news agency as saying.

More than 20 young miners are feared dead, the Zambian Watchdog news site reports.

Others miners have assaulted people taking photos of the scene, it adds.

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Funmi Jokotade
BBC Yoruba, Lagos

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Three people have been killed and many others wounded after a large amount of plywood fell off a lorry and landed on four vehicles on the popular Ojuelegba Bridge in Nigeria's main city, Lagos.

The injured are receiving treatment at three different hospitals.

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The head of the Lagos Emergency Rescue Squad, Adeshina Tiamiyu, told BBC Yoruba that the accident was caused by overloading, and the government should stop lorries from using the bridge.

Read more on the BBC Yoruba website

South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has confirmed that one of its MPs, Sibusiso Radebe, was shot dead last night in an attempted hijacking in Roodepoort, a city in the economic heartland of Gauteng province.

The party's parliamentary caucus paid tribute to the lawmaker, in a tweet:

See earlier post for more details, external.

The BBC Africa team picked up two awards for its outstanding reporting from the continent on Tuesday night.

Stephanie Hegarty's piece on the young women forced to be suicide bombers for Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram - Made Up to Look Beautiful, Sent out to Die - took home the digital media prize at the One World Media awards, which were held in London.

A few minutes later, security correspondent Tomi Oladipo won the radio award for his piece, South Sudan: A Failure to Act.

The awards are billed as a "celebration of the most outstanding media coverage of the developing world".

Twitter is full of accolades for Aliou Cisse, Senegal’s football coach, after the Lions of Taranga won their first World Cup match against Poland 2-1 on Tuesday.

Here's a link to one of the tweets showing a gif of Cisse celebrating a goal, external – we can’t post it here because of rights issues – though a Japanese tweeter has produced a cartoon version of it:

Cisse captained Senegal’s 2002 team that made it to the World Cup quarter-finals - and took over from Alan Giresse as the national team coach in March 2015.

The 42-year-old is the only black coach at this year's World Cup.

Achraf Hakimi is set to face-off his Real Madrid teammate Ronaldo in today's World Cup clash between Morocco and Portugal.

"You never know what his moves are going to be. The rest of the players and I will try to stop him," Hakimi said, in a video posted on the Fifa website.

The match between the two sides begins at 14:00 GMT today.

An MP of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC), Sibusiso Radebe, has been shot dead in a suspected robbery

He was shot in the head and leg after the suspect allegedly demanded his phone, family member Lungile Dube told Mpumalanga News., external

The incident happened in Roodepoort city in South Africa's economic heartland of Gauteng.

A local journalist has also tweeted about the shooting:

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The disgraced former head of Fifa, Sepp Blatter, will attend the World Cup match between Portugal and Morocco in Russia later on Wednesday (14:00 GMT), despite being banned from involvement in football by the sport's ethics committee.

The six-year ban does not prevent him from attending games. He'll be a guest of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Mr Blatter was in charge of Fifa, the world football governing body, in 2010, when Russia won the bid to host the competition.

Other matches on Wednesday see Uruguay take on Saudi Arabia, and then one of the favourites, Spain, will face Iran.

The two men at the heart of South Sudan's civil war are due to hold their first face-to-face meeting in two years in an attempt to end the strife.

South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar flew into Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, from South Africa, where he has been living under house arrest.

He will be meeting his long-standing rival President Salva Kiir.

Image source, AFP

Tens of thousands of people have fled the fighting in South Sudan and live in refugee camps in neighbouring countries including Ethiopia.

All previous attempts at negotiating an end to the conflict have collapsed.

Read more:

• 'Soldiers will kill you for no reason'
• The boy who spent days hiding in a swamp

Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Addis Ababa

Eritrea's President Isaias Aferweki has announced plans to send a delegation to its long-standing rival, Ethiopia, to begin talks to resolve a bitter border dispute that has lasted for 16 years.

He made the announcement in front of thousands of people who had gathered in the capital, Asmara, for celebrations to remember people who died fighting for the country’s independence.

The statement is Eritrea’s most significant response since Ethiopia’s ruling EPRDF coalition announced earlier this month that it would fully abide by a 2002 border ruling to cede territory to Eritrea.

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The move has faced opposition from some members of the EPRDF.

Protests have also erupted in various towns in northern Ethiopia, where people have demanded the government not to cede the territories awarded to Eritrea.

But Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has defended his government’s decision and said troops would be withdrawn from the disputed territories in line with the agreement.

The dispute between the two countries sparked Africa's deadliest border war in which tens of thousands of people were killed.

Since then, Ethiopia and Eritrea have been on a war footing and have had little diplomatic or trade relations.

See update:Eritrea hails new era in Ethiopia

Our African proverb of the day:

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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.

You can also follow live updates on the last few minutes of the Senegal-Poland World Cup match here.

A reminder of today's wise words:

And we leave you with this drone photo of Thompson's Falls in Kenya taken by Peter Ndung'u:

Uganda's government has sent a delegation to the UK for a colonial map which they hope will help them establish the boundary of a contested district in the country's east, reports the Daily Monitor, external.

The long-standing conflict is between the Iteso and Jopadhola communities over the exact location of the municipality of Tororo and its boundaries.

The delegation reportedly includes three leaders from the two rival communities, and four officials from the lands ministry, including Minister of Lands Betty Amongi.

Senegal's M'Baye Hamady Niang exploits a moment of weakness in Poland's defence, tapping the ball past the goalkeeper into an open goal in the 61st minute.

"Poland didn't see him, they weren't aware of it. Out of nothing, Senegal go 2-0 up, That must be infuriating for a coach," says Ex-England captain Terry Butcher on BBC Five Live.

"Howler. Absolute howler," says our colleague Shamoon Hafez at BBC Sport.

"This is shocking from Poland."

Former Chelsea and Senegal striker Demba Ba is clearly enjoying his side's performance.

Georgina Rannard
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Image source, JUSTIN MCCLURE

Family portraits often prove popular on social media, but this one has inspired people to click the like button more than most.

American couple Aminat and Justin McClure posted it to celebrate their family's mixed heritage, prompting thousands of people to share their own stories about growing up in dual and multi-cultured families.

The couple, who live in New Jersey, US, posed with their three children in West African-inspired outfits to honour Aminat's Nigerian heritage. She left Lagos, in south west Nigeria, when her family moved to the US when she was little.

"We wanted to give the girls a lesson about how much diversity there is in the world so they learn to enrich themselves by opening their eyes to different cultures," Justin told the BBC.

"As a family we like to make bold statements and I wanted to celebrate Aminat's culture."

The clothes were made by Cameroonian designer Claude Kameni, who contacted the family offering to design their outfits.

The couple, whose identical twin daughters already have a large social media presence, posted the picture on Instagram, external and Facebook where it has been shared more than 15,000 times and attracted more than 69,500 interactions.

Read the full story on the BBC News website.

Idrissa Gueye scores to take Senegal into the lead in the 37th minute.