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Image source, ReutersThe continent's top tennis player, South Africa's Kevin Anderson, is on court in a Wimbledon quarter-final against the tournament's top seed, Switzerland's Roger Federer.
Anderson lost the first set, but has broken serve early in the second set.
The highest court in El Salvador has ordered President Salvador Sánchez Cerén to testify in the case of a South African ambassador to the country who was kidnapped and later killed.
Archibald Gardner Dunn was seized by armed men outside the embassy on 28 November 1979.
Almost a year later, the left-wing rebel group Popular Liberation Forces said it had killed the diplomat.
President Sánchez Cerén was the group's second in command at the time.
In presidential elections held in March 2014, he became the first former rebel to lead El Salvador.
President Sánchez Cerén has not yet commented on the court's ruling ordering him to give evidence over Dunn's disappearance.
Image source, AFPPresident Sánchez Cerén was a leader in a left-wing rebel group when Dunn was kidnapped
We've been reporting about the protest in Uganda's capital, Kampala, against the social media tax.
The small demonstration was broken up by police using tear gas and firing live rounds into the air, the BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga reports.
They also tried to arrest the protest's organiser musician and MP, Bobi Wine, she adds.
He has now tweeted his location and invited the police to come and get him.
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The Kenyan government says it will investigate allegations that local staff working for a Chinese-run railway line have been subjected to racist abuse.
On Sunday, the Standard newspaper, external reported on conversations with employees of the China Road and Bridge Corporation. The company built and now and operates the line between Nairobi and Mombasa and the newspaper was investigating reported complaints of racial discrimination and harassment by the Chinese staff.
In response a government spokesman, Eric Kiraithe, said the running of a railway required military standard discipline and suggested some Kenyan staff had a poor work ethic - a comment that has angered many Kenyans.
He also defended the financing of the railway and criticised the newspaper for showing photos of carcases of lion and buffalo that had been killed by the train, saying many more animals died on Kenya's roads.
President Uhuru Kenyatta said during the launch last year that the $3.2bn (£2.5bn) Chinese-funded line signalled a new chapter in the country.
BBC Africa has launched a special series to shed light on great African women whose stories deserve to be heard.
To launch the series, we look at Yaa Asantewaa, the Ghanaian warrior queen who went to war to protect the Golden Stool of the Ashanti Kingdom.
She was born around 1840, and rose up to lead an army against the invading British.
She is the first story in a new eight-part series entitled African Women who Changed the World.
Watch the video here:
This BBC Africa series has been produced using historical and iconographic research, but includes artistic interpretation.
Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg
South African Civil Aviation experts are still at the scene of a charter plane crash which claimed the life of one person and left at least 19 others injured, some in critical condition.
Two workers in a factory were among those hit by the plane when it came down near Wonderboom Airport, in Pretoria, shortly after take off on Tuesday.
The Convair plane, built in 1954, was due to be sent to an air museum Aviodrome in Netherlands. It crashed during "take-off on a test flight", the museum said.
An eyewitness told local media that he saw a plane’s wing that had clipped an electricity line, flying low above a factory.
A broken fuselage of the vintage plane was seen on the ground with plumes of smoke on images posted by onlookers via social media.
Aviodrome said on its Facebook page that it was "hugely shocked (by the plane it was expecting when it) crashed in South Africa during take-off on a test flight."
It also said the American built plane had been due to fly via East Africa, Egypt, Croatia, Austria to its final destination in the Netherlands.
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BBC Africa, Dar es Salaam
Image source, GettyPresident John Magufuli's has come under growing criticism for his government's treatment of dissenting voices
The Tanzanian authorities have threatened to take legal action against an independent research organisation days after it released a survey that claimed to show President John Magufuli’s popularity had declined.
The independent researchers from Twaweza found that President Magufuli’s approval ratings had plummeted by 41% since coming to power two years ago.
But in response, the public body responsible for science and technology, Costech, said Twaweza’s survey was not certified.
It gave the organisation seven days to explain itself or face legal action. Twaweza has not yet responded.
The survey called Speaking Truth to Power? is part of a series known as Voices of the Citizens.
During his early days in office, President Magufuli’s popularity soared especially because of his promises to crack down on corruption. But now rights activists are accusing his government of suppressing dissenting voices.
Uganda's World Cup bomb victims
As the World Cup final approaches it's a reminder for people in Uganda of the tragic events eight years ago.
On 11 July 2010, a bomb explosion killed more than 70 people while they were watching that year's final between Spain and The Netherlands at a restaurant in the capital, Kampala.
Wednesday's New Vision newspaper has marked the anniversary:
The Somalia-based Islamist militant group al-Shabab said it was behind the bombings.
In 2016, eight people were found guilty of terrorism in connection with the attack.
Image source, Getty ImagesTeodoro Obiang Nguema has been in power for almost 40 years
Members of Equatorial Guinea's main opposition party have not been released from prison despite President Teodoro Obiang Nguema announcing a total amnesty, AFP news agency reports quoting the main opposition leader.
Gabriel Nse Obiang, head of the banned Citizens for Innovation (CI), said:
Quote MessageThe law is not enforced in Equatorial Guinea. The government does not respect it. The president decreed a total amnesty on July 4, but people are still in prison."
The amnesty was supposed to precede a national dialogue aimed at resolving political differences.
The government banned CI in February and then 21 members were jailed for sedition.
CI also alleges that its supporters have been tortured.
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who came to power in 1979, is Africa's longest serving leader.
His rule has been criticised for widespread human rights abuses.
BBC World Service
Libya's national oil company says it has regained control of four vitally important export terminals in the east of the country.
The facilities were at the centre of recent fighting.
Afterwards forces loyal to the military strongman, General Khalifa Haftar, who is opposed to the internationally recognised government, said they were taking control of exports from the terminals.
The dispute led to output being halted, and a sudden drop in desperately-needed oil revenues.
But the Libyan state oil company says exports are now being resumed.
A 13-year-old Kenyan schoolgirl whose performance of an Alicia Keys song became a viral hit on social media has been signed to a Kenyan record label.
Pine Creek Records announced the news about Gracious Amani on its Twitter account.
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The company has also posted a video on its Facebook page:
Gracious' cover version of This Girl is on Fire wowed thousands.
Ugandan police have fired tear gas and live bullets into the air to disperse a small protest over the social media tax, the BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga reports from the capital, Kampala.
She says that the police also tried to arrest the leader of the protest, MP and musician Robert Kyagulany, who is popularly known as Bobi Wine, but he managed to escape.
A photo-journalist is tweeting pictures from the scene:
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The tax, introduced at the beginning of the month, requires people to pay 200 Uganda shillings [$0.05, £0.04] before they can use services like Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.
Parliament approved the tax in May after President Yoweri Museveni had pushed for the changes, arguing that social media encouraged gossip.
But some argue that it is a way of restricting critical comments about the government.
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A deadline expires on Wednesday for almost 1,000 refugees from Namibia, who fled to neighbouring Botswana over 20 years ago, to agree to voluntary repatriation.
The Botswana authorities say they intend to go ahead with repatriating displaced people who originate from Namibia's Caprivi Strip, following a longstanding agreement supervised by the United Nations refugee agency.
About 3,000 people from the Caprivi Strip fled to Botswana in the 1990s during a secessionist uprising.
Most have since returned. Amnesty International urged Botswana not to repatriate the remainder by force if a real risk remained that they would face persecution.
Opponents of a tax on the use of social media in Uganda are protesting in the capital, Kampala.
The tax, introduced at the beginning of the month, requires people to pay 200 Uganda shillings [$0.05, £0.04] before they can use services like Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.
Today's protest is led by MP, and popular musician, Robert Kyagulanyi, who is better known as Bobi Wine.
He is already posting videos on his Twitter account:
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Those on the protest say the tax is killing youth innovation and entrepreneurship.
President Yoweri Museveni has defended the tax, saying that social media is used to spread gossip which he described as "opinions, prejudices, insults [and] friendly chats".
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There has been a marked rise in the forced recruitment and abduction of children by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a UN official says.
Virginia Gamba, the special representative of the UN Secretary-General for children in armed conflict, said they were often used as forced labour, or sex slaves.
She added that a belief in magic meant some children were used as a talisman in an attempt to make fighters invincible.
According to the latest UN report, in the past three years children were the victims of more than 11,000 grave violations across DR Congo.
Ms Gamba spoke to the BBC's Newsday programme:
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has launched a space agency to help farmers, mine companies and cartographers, among others.
The Zimbabwe National Geospatial and Space Agency (ZNGSA) is expected to use observation satellites and drones, among other hardware, to help in its work, AFP news agency reports.
The ZNGSA was launched alongside two other new organisations aimed at modernising the country, according to the state-owned Herald newspaper, external.
The president is currently campaigning ahead of elections on 30 July - the first since the ousting of President Robert Mugabe last year.
His main challenger is the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, Nelson Chamisa.
You can watch the president's speech here:
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Our proverb of the day:
Quote MessageIf you tie a frog to your leg, a snake will follow you."
Sent by Jimissa, Freetown, Sierra Leone
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We'll be back on Wednesday
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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.
A reminder of Tuesday's proverb:
Quote MessageThe goat has died and left its skin to encounter difficulties."
A Hausa proverb sent by Adam A Adam Gashua in Nigeria
Click here to send us your African proverbs.
And we leave you with a photo taken earlier on Tuesday of a 10-year-old in Lesotho holding on to the bar of a lift at a ski resort in the mountainous kingdom.
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British citizen Andargachew Tsege, who was freed by the Ethiopian authorities in May after spending four years on death row, has told the BBC he was not allowed a pen a paper while in jail.
Whilst inside he knew nothing about what was going on in the outside world – and only his 90-year-old father was allowed to visit him.
He did not know about the campaign for his release, mainly led by his partner Yemi Hailemariam, or the political turmoil in the country.
The government had accused him of plotting a coup and had sentenced him to death in absentia in 2009.
He was then apprehended at an airport in Yemen while in transit and turned over to the Ethiopian authorities.
Mr Andargachew came into BBC Focus on Africa's studio in London to discuss the first 100 days in office of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, whose reforms have seen the release of thousands of political prisoners.
Mr Andargachew, a father of three, fled Ethiopia in the 1970s and sought political asylum in the UK.