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Poland 0-0 Senegal
Follow the BBC Sport live page for real-time updates on the match.
Our colleagues there say that as we reach the 30-minute mark, it's probably fair to say it's evenly poised with no real goal threat.
Possession is just in Poland's favour with territory pretty shared:
Poland 0-0 Senegal
The last of the Matchday One games is under way as Senegal takes on Poland.
"If there's an African team that is going to go far in this tournament it could be Senegal," says Ex-England captain Terry Butcher.
He told BBC Radio 5 live just now: "Senegal made it to the quarter-finals in 2002 but haven't been here for a while. The manager Aliou Cisse was captain, he has World Cup pedigree. They have something to prove."
Our colleague Piers Edwards earlier tweeted that Russian police have been searching all the Senegal players' rooms with a police dog, "supposedly to find out why the fans are dancing so much. I kid you not."
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Image source, AFPSouth Sudanese are fed up with war - including 10-year-old Sandy, who marched for an end to the conflict last December
Nearly 69 million people who have fled wars, violence and persecution were forcibly displaced last year, says the UN's refugee agency, external.
The UNHCR says the biggest regional increase in refugee numbers - a growth of more than 20% - was in Africa - mainly driven by South Sudan's ongoing civil conflict which has forced one million people from their homes.
The ongoing political crisis in DR Congo has also had grave humanitarian consequences. The number of internally displaced people there has doubled in the space of a year, the UN reports.
While 620,800 have fled DR Congo, the country also hosts 537,100 refugees from other countries - including many from South Sudan.
Four out of five refugees remain in countries next door to their own, according to the UN.
The UN suggests that the "the notion that the world’s displaced are mainly in countries of the global north" is misguided.
Their press statement adds, external:
Quote MessageThe data shows the opposite to be true – with fully 85% of refugees in developing countries, many of which are desperately poor and receive little support to care for these populations."
Mercy Juma
BBC Africa, Nairobi
Image source, AFPCuban doctors can now begin to work in hospitals across the country
A Nairobi court has dismissed a case that challenged the right of Cuban doctors to work in Kenya.
The Employment and Labour Relations Court has ruled that there is no proof that doctors' rights have been infringed by the decision to hire Cuban doctors.
Fifty Cuban specialists, including surgeons, radiologists, and neurologists, who arrived in the country earlier this month can now begin to work in hospitals across the country.
In this year’s budget, presented last week, the treasury allocated $10m to cater for salaries and other costs of bringing in the Cuban doctors.
The Cuban doctors are caught in the middle of a heated debate in Kenya. The Health ministry has estimated that there is a shortage of up to 42,800 health workers in the country. But the doctors’ union says there are 1,683 unemployed doctors.
In the last two years Kenyan nurses have gone on strike three times, with the latest one lasting five whole months.
Last year, doctors in the country held a 100-day strike, the longest the country has ever experienced.
These industrial actions have continuously paralysed services in thousands of public facilities, leaving patients who cannot afford private care, stranded.
For Alice Jim, $100 is almost as much as she earns in a month in her job as a housemaid in Zimbabwe.
As part of the BBC’s World Service Money & Power season, our colleagues have been asking people around the world how they might use an unexpected cash windfall.
The answers reveal much about who we are, where we live and the buying power of money.
So what would it mean for Alice who dreams of building a home for her family? Find out in the video below.
Our colleague Victoria Uwonkunda spotted this group of Senegal fans in matching outfits and body paint on their way to this afternoon's World Cup match against Poland.
As you can see from the pictures, they've daubed across their bodies "Senegal gagnez?" (Will Senegal win?).
We'll soon find out. Kick-off is at 15:00GMT.
Image source, Victoria Uwonkunda/BBC
Image source, Victoria Uwonkunda/BBC
Thomas Naadi
BBC News, Accra
Heavy rains last night caused flooding in parts of Accra, trapping some residents in their homes, submerging vehicles and destroying properties.
Hundreds of residents have been left homeless. The west of the capital, which is a low laying area, is worst affected.
Ghana's MyJoyOnline news site, external had published photos of the floods:
Image source, myjoyonline
Image source, myjoyonline
Image source, myjoyonlineThe flooding has again exposed the poor drainage system in Accra.
Floods are very common in the capital and authorities say that the country requires around $700m (£531m) to fix the problem permanently.
The Ghana Meteorological Agency, external has warned of more heavy rains over the next two months.
Senegal v Poland: Kick-off at 15:00GMT
Victoria Uwonkunda
BBC News, Moscow
Image source, AFPThe Lions of Teranga are in good spirits as they gear up for their second-ever World Cup
Will Senegal save a continent’s honour when they meet Poland in their first-round World Cup match today?
That’s what many African football fans will be hoping, after all four other African teams - Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria and Tunisia - failed to grab a single point in Russia.
While some 200 Senegalese fans descended on Moscow on Monday and lit up the Russian capital with dancing and songs ahead of their World Cup clash, the team have already been in Russia for a week.
And though it has only reached the World Cup once before - in 2002 - Senegal boasts one of the most lauded and revered players in Liverpool’s Sadio Mané. The side seem ready to make a dent in Poland’s chances and to stop their world class striker, Robert Lewandowski.
Fans tell me they have faith in Senegal’s abilities.
Image source, NDUDU BY FAFAAuthorities in Nigeria say they will close their border with an unnamed neighbouring country within the next few days to stop foreign rice being smuggled in.
"Poisonous materials" and "arsenic" are among the substances Nigeria's agricultural minister Audu Ogbeh claims are present in rice imported from China and South East Asia into Africa.
The minister, who says he has prior expertise on the topic as "the first Nigerian rice grower to mill rice free of stones", added:
Quote MessageIn South East Asia where they grow the rice, if you plant rice in the same place for four to six years continuously, the quantum of arsenic begins to increase.
Quote MessageArsenic causes cancer and that is what they are dumping for us. Some people say they prefer Thai rice because they are very sophisticated. Welcome to poison!"
Though Nigerian authorities have not yet disclosed which neighbouring country the smuggled rice is coming from, local media say the country in question is Benin.
Nigeria is among a number of African countries seeking to increase local rice production.
As many as 21 of the 39 rice-producing countries in Africa import between 50% and 99% of their rice requirements, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, external.
The agriculture minister claimed in 2017 that Nigeria would become self-sufficient in rice production by the end of the year, but local experts labelled this a "pipe dream".
Yasine Mohabuth
BBC News, Port Louis
Image source, .Opposition politicians say Mauritian nationality should not be a "commodity"
Mauritius is offering foreigners the chance to obtain Mauritian citizenship in exchange for a non-refundable contribution of $1m (£757,400) to the national sovereign wealth fund.
Applicants' spouses and dependents are also eligible with an additional contribution of $100,000 per family member.
The announcement was made by the prime minister and finance minister in the country's 2018 budget.
The move has been condemned by opposition politicians.
Leader of the populist Rezistans ek Alternativ party, Ashok Subron, said:
Quote MessageThe notion of nationality of a country is not a product. It has no price and is in no way a commodity."
The Economic Development Board (EDB) is to manage the scheme, and applicants will have to satisfy defined criteria subject to relevant due diligence.
Another scheme will offer Mauritian passports in exchange for the lesser sum of $500,000 paid to the Mauritius Sovereign Fund, and $50,000 per passport for family members.
Image source, AFPKenya's Daily Nation news site says, external that the country's government has resisted pressure from the US to seize assets and wealth belonging to South Sudan's elite.
The newspaper quotes Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Macharia Kamau as saying:
Quote MessageKenya knows its obligations in regards to corruption and money laundering, and is working closely with the international community on the same. However, we work with multilateral platforms and don’t take instructions from other sovereign states."
The Trump administration's actions follow the publication of a report in 2016, external, commissioned by actor George Clooney, which accuses South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, opposition leader Riek Machar, and top generals of making themselves rich while the country has struggled under a civil war of their making.
The report found that family members of President Kiir and Mr Machar reside in luxurious homes outside South Sudan, including homes in one particular upmarket neighbourhood of Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
It also said that former army chief Paul Malong, whose salary was about $45,000 per year, has at least two villas in Uganda in addition to a $2m mansion in a gated community in Nairobi.
In March, the US imposed sanctions on 15 South Sudanese oil operators that it said were key sources of finance for the government. The month before, it banned the sale of weapons to South Sudan and called for other nations and the UN to adopt a global arms embargo.
Our African proverb of the day:
Quote MessageA mouth that has been fed keeps quiet."
A Somali proverb sent by Mohamed Kusow in Somalia
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That's all from BBC Africa Live today. Keep up-to-date with what's happening across the continent by listening to the Africa Today podcast or check the BBC News website.
A reminder of today's wise words:
Quote MessageLittle by little, a chicken drinks water."
An Akan proverb sent by Kwadwo Asamoah Gyamfi and Anthony Kwabena Ofosu-Addae, both from Ghana.
And we leave you with this photo of artists during a music video launch shoot, directed by Stephen Okoth, in Kibera slum in Kenya's capital, Nairobi:
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Image source, ReutersGonen Segev is charged with "assisting an enemy during a time of war"
Israel has charged a former cabinet minister with spying for Iran, the Shin Bet internal security service says.
Gonen Segev, a medical doctor who served as energy minister in the 1990s, was allegedly recruited by Iranian intelligence while living in Nigeria.
He was detained during a visit to Equatorial Guinea in May and extradited following a request by Israeli police.
The 62 year old was jailed for five years in 2005 for smuggling drugs and forging a diplomatic passport.
He also had his medical licence revoked, but was allowed to work as a physician in Nigeria when he moved there after his release from prison in 2007.
Bloodless malaria test invented by Ugandans
Inventors of a bloodless malaria test say their device could help identify cases of the disease much earlier.
Nearly 500,000 people die from malaria every year, the vast majority in sub-Saharan Africa.
Shafik Sekitto, from the Ugandan team behind the invention, spoke to the BBC about the device, which has just won a prestigious prize.
Image source, AFPBrazil is a major producer of sugar
Kenyan officials have confiscated 3,000 bags of what is suspected to be illegally imported sugar from a warehouse in Meru town in the east, local media reports.
The sugar, which was imported from Brazil, was being repackaged into bags to indicate it was sourced from Zambia, Meru County Commissioner Wilfred Nyagwanga was quoted as saying.
At least 13 workers, along with the manager of the warehouse, had been arrested, the Daily Nation, external newspaper reports.
Image source, AFPEgypt manager Hector Cuper says Mohamed Salah will play tomorrow against Russia if he passes a final fitness test.
"Salah is fit. I hope he will be fit to play, I think he will be fit to play. In the previous match we thought he was fit too but we have a final fitness test," Cuper said.
Dion Dublin takes a look at what England can expect from Tunisia, their first opponents at the World Cup, during a 1-0 friendly win over Costa Rica.
World Cup: Dion Dublin scouts England's first opponents Tunisia