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

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Farouk Chothia

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.

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And we leave you with some photos of Senegalese football fans in the capital, Dakar, as their team dashed the hopes of all Africans by crashing out of the World Cup:

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When Livey Van Wyk found out she was HIV positive she was 17 and pregnant. She was treated like an outcast, but she went on to become a leader in her community in Namibia.

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Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

Ethiopia's state broadcaster says the country's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrea's President Isaias Afewerki will meet soon.

It's a further sign of the rapidly improving relations between the two countries, which fought a border war two decades ago and had been enemies ever since.

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Earlier this month Ethiopia said it would comply with a 2002 agreement and cede disputed land to its neighbour.

The surprise move by Mr Abiy led to senior Eritrean officials visiting Addis Ababa this week - something seen as unimaginable just weeks ago.

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A legal firm in the United States has filed a law suit against a leading South African gold mining company, Sibanye-Stillwater, on behalf of the company's shareholders.

Bernstein Liebhard LLP says it is trying to recover shareholders' losses after a series of deaths at the company's mines led to a drop in its share price.

There have been 22 deaths since the beginning of the year.

Sibanye-Stillwater - one of the 10 largest gold producers globally - said it would "vigorously defend" against any claims.

Earlier this week, the chairman of South Africa's parliamentary committee on mineral resources, Sahlulele Luzipo, said the situation should be viewed as a national crisis, and suggested the company might have its licence withdrawn over safety concerns.

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A Polish charity has received a huge phone bill after it lost a GPS tracker that it had placed on the back of a stork, it is reported.

According to official broadcaster Radio Poland, external, the environmental EcoLogic Group placed a tracker on the back of a white stork last year to track the bird's migratory habits.

It travelled some 3,700 miles (6,000km), and was traced to the Blue Nile Valley in eastern Sudan before the charity lost contact.

EcoLogic told the Super Express , externalnewspaper that somebody found the tracker in Sudan, removed the sim card and put it in their own phone, where they then racked up 20 hours' worth of phone calls.

Radio Poland says that the organisation has received a phone bill of more than 10,000 Polish zloty ($2,700; £2,064), which it will have to pay.

Stork-tagging plays an important role in environmentalists' research and conservation of migratory birds, and data from micro-GPS trackers can be used to help scientists assess birds' habits, social behaviour and threats.

Although the white stork is not currently at risk, industrialisation and the draining of wetlands pushed the species towards near-extinction in Europe some 50 years ago.

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This is the first time since the 1982 World Cup that all African teams have gone out in the first round.

Colombia have beaten Senegal 1-0. That's the end of Africa's participation in the World Cup - no team has made it through to the knockout round.

There are huge celebrations from the Colombia players. The Senegal players are distraught. They have been knocked out on fair play rules. It's the first time in history that has happened at the World Cup.

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Leading rights group Amnesty International has called on the Nigerian authorities to address the rising insecurity in the country, after it said more than 1,800 had been killed since January.

The group said the killings were the result of conflict between herders and farmers, communal clashes, the Boko Haram insurgency and banditry.

Opposition People's Democratic Party publicity secretary Kola Ologbondiyan said Nigeria was turning into a "funeral parlour" under President Muhammadu Buhari's leadership, and he needed to be voted out in next year's election.

Last weekend, at least 86 people were killed in Plateau state, where well-armed nomadic cattle herders attacked several farming villages.

Amnesty says the attackers, often in their hundreds, spend hours at the scene without any intervention from the security forces.

In a statement on Thursday, Mr Buhari said that despite the security challenges, the government has had "notable successes" in tackling insecurity.

A brilliant, powerful header from Barcelona centre-back Yerry Mina at a corner and Senagal can't keep it out.

As it stands Colombia are top of the group. Senegal are going out on yellow cards.

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BBC Tigrinya

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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has ordered an investigation into "plots being concocted" to undermine the wide-ranging political reforms he has introduced since taking office in May, the state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) has reported.

An explosion at a 23 June rally addressed by Mr Abiy in the capital, Addis Ababa, would be investigated by a committee formed by the prime minister.

The committee would also investigate attempts to disrupt power and telecom services and "economic shenanigans" in the country, it reported.

This suggests that Mr Abiy is facing opposition from within state institutions to his reforms, and more arrests can be expected.

Dozens of people, including the deputy police commissioner of Addis Ababa, were detained following the explosion at Saturday's rally.

Mr Abiy has ended a state of emergency, freed thousands of prisoners, lifted a ban on media outlets and has taken moves to resolve a long-running border dispute with neighbouring Eritrea.

Kareem Waris Olamilekan is a young Nigerian artist inspired by the artists Michelangelo and Arinze Stanley Egbengwu.

He told BBC Africa's What's New programme about his artistic journey in this One Minute Story.

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A British nurse has been convicted in the UK of trafficking five Nigerian women into Germany to work as prostitutes after subjecting them to voodoo rituals.

Josephine Iyamu, 51, forced the women to swear oaths to hand over money to her during "juju" ceremonies.

Iyamu, who lives in London, was convicted of five counts of arranging or facilitating travel for sexual exploitation at Birmingham Crown Court.

Jurors also found her guilty of perverting the course of justice.

In exchange for facilitating the travel, Iyamu charged the victims between 30,000 euros ($35,000, £27,000) and 38,000 euros, and then made them work as prostitutes in order to repay the debt.

The voodoo rituals saw the women forced to eat chicken hearts, drink blood containing worms, and have powder rubbed into cuts, the court heard.

Andy Young, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said:

Iyamu, who was born in Liberia, will be sentenced on Wednesday.

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Senegal will guarantee a place in the last 16 with a point and coach Aliou Cisse has opted to make three changes from the draw with Japan.

West Ham's Cheikhou Kouyate comes in to captain the side from central midfield, with defender Lamine Gassama and forward Keita Balde Diao also brought into the side.

Moussa Wague, Badou Ndiaye and Alfred N'Diaye missing out.

Senegal used a 4-4-2 formation in the win against Poland but switched to 4-3-3 for the draw with Japan, with the former seemingly preferred against Colombia.

You can follow minute-by-minute coverage of the match on our football live page. Otherwise, stay with us on BBC Africa Live and we'll bring you the key moments of the game.

This photo of two Senegalese fans and a Colombian supporter taking a selfie in the stadium in the Russian city of Samara ahead of the World Cup match between their two teams may be slightly misleading.

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Journalist Bamba Kasse, who is outside the stadium, told BBC Afrique that it will be like an away game for the Lions of Taranga as there are so many more Colombian fans expected at the clash.

He says the city is like a “Little Bogata” as about 25,000 Colombian supporters are expected at the stadium.

Image source, Bamba Kasse/BBC Afrique

But he says the atmosphere is friendly, even if the Senegal fans are outnumbered:

Image source, Bamba Kasse/BBC Afrique

Senegal are carrying the hopes of Africa as they are only team from the continent left in the tournament able to qualify to the knockout round.

The match kicks off at 14:00 GMT.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) says very important progress has been made in the fight against the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A total of 38 people have died since the disease was identified in May, but the WHO says there are currently no confirmed cases in the country.

Its regional emergency director, Dr Ibrahim Socé-Fall, told BBC Focus on Africa radio that it was too early to celebrate as the test results from four suspected cases were still not known.

He praised the rapid response by the Congolese authorities and other health agencies.

Dr Socé-Fall said more than 3,000 people were given an experimental vaccine and none of them had contracted the virus.

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Distraught parents have been going from ward to ward at the main hospital in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, to find their children, following the fire which raged through a market in the city, AFP news agency reports.

Betty Kaveke was looking for her three missing children at the Kenyatta National Hospital.

"I have only found one, aged 14, the rest are nowhere to be seen and the house is destroyed," she was quoted as saying.

At least 15 people were killed and 70 wounded after a blaze ripped through Gikomba market, one of the largest in Nairobi.

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Second-hand clothes trader Maggy Njerid-hand clothes trader sobbed as she looked her stall, which had been destroyed by the fire, AFP reports.

"This was my life. I don't know where to start from," she was quoted as saying.

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

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Amnesty International has called on the Malawian authorities to protect people living with albinism, saying the vast majority of cases where they are murdered for their body parts go unresolved or face lengthy delays.

Albino people, who lack pigment in their skin and appear pale, have been targeted in several African countries where people are told that potions made from their body parts will bring them good luck and wealth.

Officials say since 2014 there have been 14 reported murders of albinos in Malawi but Amnesty says it knows of 21 such killings.

• Read: Malawi Albino survivor 'too scared to sleep'

A High Court in South Africa has overturned the classification of a controversial film, which focuses on a gay relationship between two men at a Xhosa initiation school, as hardcore porn.

The decision of the Film and Publications Board Appeals Tribunal was procedurally unfair and unlawful, as the producers of Inxeba (Wound) were “given no proper opportunity to participate in the decision and no proper opportunity to influence the outcome of the decision”, Judge Joseph Raulinga was quoted by the TimesLive news site as saying, external.

However, the judge was critical of Inxeba, saying “if cultural beliefs and practices are to be considered‚ the film is harmful and disturbing and exposes 16-year-olds to the sexual conduct depicted in the film”.

He added: "The film included language which was degrading to Xhosa women and further exposes women to societal violence such as rape.

"It contains harmful scenes which could cause tensions within the Xhosa community and even within the broader African community.

"By implication it has an effect on the rights of the Xhosa traditional group.”

Traditional leaders from the Xhosa group, the second-largest in South Africa, spearheaded opposition to the film's portrayal of gay love against a backdrop of a rite of passage ceremony for young men.

"You cannot make a joke about a ritual that people love. It is really very offensive," Chief Mwelo Nonkonyana, a senior Xhosa traditional leader, was quoted as saying, external.

The film, directed by John Trengove, has been shown at film festivals around the world, including Germany and Israel.

It was short-listed in the Best Foreign Language Film category at this year's Oscars.

Lawyers for the filmmakers challenged Inxeba's classification as hardcore porn on the grounds that it did not contain "long sex scenes", and was not made with the purpose of causing "erotic sensation".

The classification meant the film could only be shown in adult stores, and not cinemas, TimesLive reported.

You can a watch a BBC video about the film here:

Traders in Kenya are assessing the wreckage of the fire that killed at least 15 people at Gikomba market in the capital, Nairobi.

More than 70 people were injured in the blaze, which broke out in the middle of the night destroying many properties.

Image source, Reuters

Gikomba is one of the largest open-air markets in the city, selling second-hand clothes, shoes and vegetables, and fires there are frequent.

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The St John Ambulance service said the fire broke out at 02:30 local time (23:30 GMT on Wednesday) and spread to apartments and market stalls before being contained after about 90 minutes.

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Riot police are at the scene where traders have gathered to view the damage.

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The cause of the fire is being investigated - it is believed to have broken out in one of the market's timber yards.

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