Africa Live this week: 16 - 20 July 2018 as it happened

Summary

Cameroon soldiers 'arrested' over viral execution video
'Be a man' campaign mocked by Moroccan women
Compensation offered to Marikana massacre victims
Koffi Olomide 'not banned from Zambia'
Twitter appoints ex-Nigerian minister to board of directors
Death sentence for Kenya's 'prison beauty queen'
Barbecues in UK 'fuel rapid deforestation' in Nigeria

Live Reporting

Obama twists, swings and shufflespublished at 10:24 British Summer Time 16 July 2018
Former US President Barack Obama is attending the launch of a youth foundation in his ancestral village of Kogelo in western Kenya.
A local TV station has shared a clip of Mr Obama dancing to the tunes being belted by performers at the event.
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Mr Obama last visited Kogelo in 2006 when he was a US senator.
Eritrea re-opens Ethiopia embassy frozen in timepublished at 10:01 British Summer Time 16 July 2018
Eritrea has re-opened its embassy in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, for the first time since 1998 as part of the ongoing rapprochement between the two countries.
Eritrea's President Isaias Afwerki, who arrived in the neighbouring country on Saturday for a three-day official visit, raised his country's flag jointly with his host Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during the ceremony.
They had agreed to restore diplomatic ties following Mr Abiy's policy to re-establish relations with its small neighbour after a two decade standoff over a border dispute.
The two leaders toured the dusty embassy building and looked at the furniture and the car used by the last ambassador.
The BBC's Kalkidan Yibeltal snapped these pictures of the embassy which looks like it is frozen in time:
Obamamania in Kenya villagepublished at 08:54 British Summer Time 16 July 2018
Excitement has gripped the small village of Kogelo in western Kenya as their famous son, former US President Barack Obama, visits after 12 years.
He last visited his ancestral village in 2006 when he was a US senator.
Mr Obama arrived in the country on Sunday and is set to inaugurate a youth project run by his sister.
Known as the Sauti Kuu Foundation, it will be a sports facility and vocational training centre.
The former US president made a low key arrival to the East African nation compared to his visit in 2015 when he was still in office.
He met Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House in the capital, Nairobi:
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According to local media, a security cordon has been put in place but it has not deterred local traders from selling commemorative merchandise, which include US flags.
Another issue that has got Kenya's talking is the report in Tanzanian newspapers that Mr Obama and his family spent eight days in the famous Serengeti National Park before travelling to Kenya.
The BBC's Business Editor shared a tweet showing the newspaper headlines which some Kenyans see as Tanzanians gloating:
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Mr Obama will be heading to South Africa after his Kenya visit to give the annual Mandela Day lecture on Tuesday.
Monday's wise wordspublished at 08:48 British Summer Time 16 July 2018
Our proverb of the day:
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The last camel in the line walks as quickly as the first.
A Somali proverb sent by Abdul Farah, Kisangani, DR Congo, and Abdijamal Hussein Abdullahi, Bosaso, Somalia
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Good morningpublished at 08:48 British Summer Time 16 July 2018
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