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A reminder of today's wise words:

And we leave you with picture of a child asleep on a train in South Africa. It's one of our favourite shots of the week.

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Zimbabwe's police have apologised for disrupting the opposition MDC Alliance's press conference earlier, saying in a statement that they "wish to state that we respect freedom of the media, freedom of expression and freedom of association".

Here's a copy of the Zimbabwe Republic Police statement in full:

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A legal adviser for Nelson Chamisa, Zimbabwe's opposition MDC Alliance leader, said that police told him they broke up the press conference because they had mistaken it for a political gathering.

The BBC's Fergal Keane earlier tweeted that President-elect Mnangagwa's disavowal of police actions signalled "very strange days in Zimbabwe".

Somali Zakarie Ali came to Finland at the age of three and more than 17 years later he's working as a model.

The 20-year-old told BBC Africa's One Minute stories that he wants to use his career to help others.

Video journalist: Laura Koski

Producer: Naima Mohamud

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South Africans are waiting to see who will take home tonight's record lottery prize of an estimated 140m rand ($10.4m; £8m) - the biggest amount in its 18-year history.

It's a life-changing sum of money. Which is why all winners receive free financial advice as well as trauma counselling from South Africa's National Lottery, the Times Live news site reports, external.

What would you do with those millions? Here's how people on Twitter say they would spend it:

President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa has concluded his press conference at State House in the capital, Harare, where he defended the legitimacy of his win at the polls.

He said he was validated by both the national electoral commission and EU observers - a statement at odds with the head of the EU observer mission's conclusion that an "un-level playing field and lack of trust" had marred the election process.

Mr Mnangagwa said:

"Zimbabwe is open for business, we want to leapfrog and catch up with the rest of developing countries and the rest of Sadc [Southern African Development Community]," President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa has told reporters at an ongoing press conference in the capital, Harare.

"Zimbabwe is open for business" has been one of his favourite campaign phrases.

President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa has called the deaths of six people from clashes between protesters and police on Wednesday "an unfortunate incident" and says he will set up an independent commission to investigate what happened. He also pledged to provide support to bereaved families once in office.

He told reporters at an ongoing press conference in Harare:

He also addressed the opposition MDC Alliance's plans to challenge the results of the polls in court:

Zimbabwe's President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa is addressing journalists at State House in the capital, Harare.

He says he is humbled to be elected:

He addressed his rival Nelson Chamisa, who lost the presidential vote:

"You have a crucial role to play in Zimbabwe and its unfolding future. Let's both call for peace and unity in our land."

He also said to all Zimbabweans: "Although we are divided at the polls, we are now united."

A BBC colleague tweets that Zimbabwe's state broadcaster ZBC has been airing cartoons this afternoon. The station has made no mention of the opposition party's earlier press conference, she says.

Congolese security forces have fired shots to disperse the several thousand followers of opposition leader Moïse Katumbi who are waiting to welcome him as he attempts to cross the border from Zambia, says the BBC's Poly Muzalia.

Latest reports indicate that Mr Katumbi is currently at immigration on the Zambian side of border town Kasumbalesa, meanwhile his supporters have gathered on the Congolese side.

Congolese opposition leader Moïse Katumbi has crossed no-man’s land between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo with thousands of his supporters who came to meet him.

He is currently at immigration, reports the BBC’s senior Africa correspondent Anne Soy.

Earlier we quoted his supporters as saying he had crossed the border.

On Friday morning, the authorities said he would not be allowed to enter the country. He had requested authorisation to fly back from South Africa, but when this was denied he decided to fly to Zambia and then cross the border into DR Congo by road.

The border town of Kasumbalesa is about 95km (59 miles) to his hometown Lubumbashi.

A wealthy businessman and former governor, Mr Katumbi left DR Congo in 2016.

He was later sentenced in absentia to 36 months in prison on charges he says are politically motivated.

He wants to return before a deadline for people to register their candidacy for the long-delayed presidential elections – now scheduled to take place in December.

Who is Moïse Katumbi?

• Was governor of the south-eastern Katanga province for almost a decade
• In 2015 he broke ties with the ruling party when he accused President Joseph Kabila, his former ally, of wanting to cling to power
• His popularity is partly down to his job as the president of a great source of Congolese pride - football club TP Mazembe.

Zimbabwe's opposition leader Nelson Chamisa addressed Wednesday's violence, where troops and riot police clashed with MDC Alliance protesters, during a Friday press conference in Harare.

"The thank you we are getting for being peaceful was a thank you of bullets, guns and tanks."

Here are some images from Friday's Friday's conference:

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Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, from the MDC Alliance, has called the Zimbabwe election result a "coup" against the will of the people.

"Yesterday's coup against your will is temporary," he said at a press conference in the capital, Harare, which was delayed by riot police.

He said they had "back-ups" of voter tallies, which he alleged the ruling Zanu-PF wanted to destroy when police raided the MDC headquarters on Thursday.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa won the vote with 50.8% of the vote, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission announced on Thursday evening.

The president avoided a run-off by just 36,464 votes out of more than 4.8 million cast.

The opposition MDC Allicance will negate the results of Zimbabwe's July presidential election as it was rigged, the party's leader Nelson Chamisa has told journalists.

He said their collated results "indicated that we won" by 2.3 million.

According to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), President Emmerson Mnangagwa received 2.46 million votes (50.8%) and Mr Chamisa 2.15 million (44.3%).

Our reporter at the press conference is tweeting some of Mr Chamisa's comments:

Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa called Zimbabwe's election result, which President Emmerson Mnangagwa won with 50.8% of the vote, "fraudulent, illegal, and illegitimate" during a press conference that was delayed by riot police in the capital Harare.

Speaking to journalists at the Bronte Hotel, the MDC Alliance party leader reiterated his allegation that the election "rigged".

"Mr Mnangagwa did not win the election in this country … we won this election emphatically," he said.

“We won this election and we are ready to form the next government.”

He also referred to the riot police disrupting the event.

"This is not the behaviour of people who had won, it is behaviour of people who had lost."

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the disruption at a MDC Alliance press conference by riot police is being investigated and has "no place in our society".

In a series of tweets on Friday, the president said freedom of speech, assembly and "right to criticise the government.. is an indispensable part of new Zimbabwe".

Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has arrived to applause at his party's press conference in Harare, which at one point looked like it would not go ahead after police told reporters to leave.

Organisers have said his address will begin soon.

Supporters of Democratic Republic of Congo presidential hopeful Moïse Katumbi say he has crossed the border into the country by car from Zambia, in spite of the authorities threatening to arrest him if he tried to return home.

Mr Katumbi's political group, Ensemble pour le Changement, has tweeted these videos from Kasumbalesa, a town which straddles the Zambia-DR Congo border.

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

The largest independent election observer mission in Zimbabwe says the official results from the presidential poll are broadly consistent with its own findings.

The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) studied a sample from 750 polling stations and whilst agreeing that the incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa won the most votes, it says it cannot definitely confirm whether or not there should have been a run-off.

The electoral commission said Mr Mnangagwa had secured 50.8%, narrowly avoiding the need for a second round.

The opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, says he will produce evidence to back up his claim that the election result was rigged.

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), which announced the results, said there was "no skulduggery" involved in the vote tally.

But EU observers said they had found an "un-level playing field and lack of trust" in the election process.

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A legal adviser for Nelson Chamisa, Zimbabwe's opposition MDC Alliance leader, has told reporters in the capital, Harare, that the press conference will now go ahead.

He said the police had dispersed journalists and cameramen because they had mistaken it for a political gathering.