Uganda ethics minister fails to stop music festival
Libya opens airport after ceasefire deal
Mugabe says Mnangagwa's win cannot be disputed
France arrests Liberian 'militant commander'
Djibouti welcomes Eritrea peace efforts
Zimbabwe unveils new cabinet
SA engineer sacked for sexist comments
Uganda ethics minister 'loses' to the devil
Ethiopian dam engineer 'killed himself'
Ten people die in diarrhoea outbreak in northern Ethiopia
Thursday's African proverb:
Quote MessageBeheading is not an antidote for headaches."
A Yoruba proverb sent by Babalola Taiwo, Ibadan, Nigeria.
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Welcome to the BBC Africa Live page where we'll be keeping you up-to-date with news on the continent.
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That's all from BBC Africa Live today. You can 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 Wednesday's proverb:
Quote MessageThe person who rejects advice deserves no sympathy."
A Sepedi proverb sent by Bogope Wa Thabampshe, Ga Masemola, Polokwane, South Africa
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And we leave you with this photo of the border fence encircling Spain"s North African enclave of Ceuta, which lies on the Strait of Gibraltar, and is surrounded by Morocco:
Image source, Getty ImagesCameroonian NBA star Joel Embiid says he thinks there is a lot more “undiscovered talent” waiting to be found in Africa.
The Philadelphia 76ers centre tells BBC Sport Africa how difficult it was when he first arrived in the US.
He says his teammates initially mocked his lack of English, but he used that as a “fuel” to drive his development as a player.
Joel Embiid: African NBA players have to work “twice as hard” as Americans
Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo
Image source, AFPHuge demand exists on the black market for rhino horns
Two suspected poachers have been arrested in southern Mozambique - hours after two rhinos were shot dead, a wildlife group has said.
Rangers tracked the suspected poachers after shots were heard along the border between Mozambique's Limpopo National Park and South Africa's Kruger National Park, the Peace Parks Foundation said in a statement.
One suspect was carrying a rifle, and the other suspect two sets of rhino horns, it added.
Both Mozambique and South Africa are battling high levels of poaching by criminal networks.
There is huge demand for rhino horns in parts of Asia, where they are seen to be a cure for various ailments.
Image source, Getty ImagesMany migrants make the treacherous journey in the hope of of a better life in Europe
More than 400 West Africans have been rescued in the desert in northern Niger, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said, Reuters news agency reports.
Search and rescue teams found the migrants, split in two groups, at the desert border town of Assamaka on Monday and Tuesday, the IOM added.
The one group was made of 347 people who had arrived in Assamaka on foot on Monday. The group was made up of nationals from 13 countries, including Mali, Guinea and Senegal. A further 92 were found on Tuesday, Reuters quoted the IOM as saying.
Niger is a transit point for thousands of migrants on their way to Libya or Algeria, from where they try to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe.
Nick Cavell
BBC Africa Sport
Image source, Getty ImagesKwesi Nyantakyi denies any wrongdoing
Fifa has extended its ban from all football activities on former Ghana Football Association (GFA) president Kwesi Nyantakyi by an additional 45 days.
He was initially suspended on 8 June for 90 days by the adjudicatory chamber of Fifa's independent Ethics Committee.
The committee is carrying out a formal investigation into Nyantakyi after he was filmed apparently accepting a "cash gift".
The extension of the ban , externalwill commence on 6 September 2018.
He was filmed in an undercover investigation by controversial Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas taking $65,000 (£48,000) from an undercover reporter pretending to be a businessman.
Soon after the ban on 8 June Nyantakyi resigned from the posts he had held with football's world governing body, Fifa, and the Confederation of African Football (Caf).
He left his role on the Fifa Council and stepped aside from his roles with Caf including as 1st vice-president, the most senior figure at the confederation after its president, Ahmad.
As well as the Fifa suspension Nyantakyi also resigned as president of the GFA on 8 June following an executive committee meeting.
Nyantakyi has always denied any wrongdoing.
Image source, Getty ImagesA police helicopter was used to try and rescue people trapped in the buiding
Three firefighters have died in a blaze which swept through the upper floors of a building in South Africa's main city, Johannesburg, officials have said.
One firefighter fell to his death while battling the blaze, while the other two were found inside the building.
Thirteen people who worked in the building have been admitted to hospital, officials said.
The fire broke out on the 23rd floor of the building in downtown Johannesburg, and was apparently caused by an electrical fault, the local News24 website reported.
Its correspondent has tweeted a photo of the building.
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Several departments of the Gauteng provincial government had offices in the building.
The Gauteng minister for Infrastructure Development‚ Jacob Mamabolo, was at the scene as the firemen battled the blaze, and confirmed the casualties.
The building had not been compliant with "basic" health and safety regulations, he said, News24 reported.
A fireman who runs a private firefighting company, Wynand Engelbrecht, told South Africa's TimesLive news site, external that he knew the building well, and it was "a complete fire stack and hazard".
Image source, Getty ImagesThe Ebola outbreak has been largely contained
The eastern Democratic Republic of Congo trading hub Butembo has recorded its first case of Ebola, the health ministry has said, Reuters news agency reports.
The city has a population of about 900,000, and strong trade links to neighbouring Uganda.
"We call on the population to exercise caution, and to respect all hygiene measures recommended by health workers," Butembo's mayor Sylvain Kanyamanda told Reuters.
Ebola has killed about 80 in DR Congo since July and infected another 40.
Most of the deaths have been in villages but cases have also been reported in urban areas, including the city of Beni.
The outbreak is the 10th in DR Congo since Ebola was discovered in 1976 in the country’s north.
The 13 people detained after a raid by armed Kenyan police on the Nairobi offices of the China Global Television Network have been freed, police chief Joseph Boinnet has said.
The officers involved in the raid on the Chinese state-owned broadcaster were checking work permits and immigration documents, witnesses said.
The 13 were let go once their documents had been verified, Mr Boinnet told local media.
Kenya's Interior Ministry has been carrying out a crackdown on people who are working in the country illegally.
The TV station broadcast an exclusive interview with Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta ahead of the China-Africa summit in Beijing.
The summit, aimed at strengthening ties between China and African states, ended on Wednesday.
Mary Harper
Africa editor, BBC World Service
Militant Islamist group al-Shabab has abducted 69 clan elders in Somalia's central region of Galgadug, officials says.
The elders are being held prisoner because they have failed to pay full compensation for the killings two years ago of five members of a rival clan, al-Shabab says.
They have been taken to an al-Shabab-controlled area about 100km (60 miles) from their home village.
Image source, AFPAl-Shabab is fighting to establish its version of Islamic rule in Somalia
The elders say they had agreed to pay the compensation of $500,000 (£390,000) over a five-year period.
The Galgadug authorities say the central government is not doing enough to protect local people from al-Shabab.
BBC World Service
Nigerian coach Salisu Yusuf filmed taking cash
The chief coach of the Nigerian national football team has been banned from the sport for a year for taking money from reporters posing as football agents.
Salisu Yusuf was secretly filmed accepting $1,000 (£780) during a discussion about player selection for the 2018 African Nations Championship.
The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) said the incident has had a damaging effect on the reputation and integrity of Nigerian football.
There is no evidence the money influenced his player selection, but Fifa and the NFF prohibit officials from collecting cash gifts.
Mr Yusuf has said he didn't believe he was breaking any rules.
Anne Soy
BBC Africa, Nairobi
Image source, Getty ImagesChina has been trying to extend its influence in Africa
Armed officers believed to be Kenyan police have raided the offices of China Global Television Network (CGTN) in Nairobi and arrested several expatriates.
A CGTN employee, Saddique Shaban, said about a dozen officers, who did not identify themselves, raided the Africa headquarters of the Chinese state-owned broadcaster and demanded to see the work permits and registration cards.
Video posted on social media showed the armed officers dragging Chinese workers out of the building.
The raid has disrupted the network’s broadcasts out of Africa. The Interior Ministry has been carrying out a crackdown on illegal immigration.
Image source, Getty ImagesBotswana has been described as the last sanctuary for elephants in Africa
Botswana's government has condemned as "unsubstantiated and sensational" reports of a sharp rise in elephant poaching in the country.
On Monday, scientists with Elephants Without Borders, who are carrying out a wildlife survey in Botswana, told the BBC that 87 dead elephants had been found close to the protected Okavango Delta wildlife sanctuary, which attracts tourists from around the world.
Many of the elephants were killed for their tusks just weeks ago, and the scale of poaching deaths is the largest seen in Africa, Elephants Without Borders said.
In its response, the government said in a statement: "At no point in the last months or recently were 87 or 90 elephants killed in one incident in any place in Botswana."
The deaths of 53 elephants had been officially reported in July and August, and an investigation found that "the majority were not poached but rather died from natural causes and retaliatory killings as a result of human and wildlife conflicts", it added.
The government denied that the rise in elephant poaching had been primarily caused by the withdrawal of weapons from the Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP) anti-poaching unit.
The withdrawal had not created any vacuum in anti-poaching operations, it said.
Current legislation did now not allow the DWNP to own weapons, and "correction measures are to be undertaken" to deal with the issue, the statement said.
The government condemned "in the strongest terms possible attempts by individuals or groups who give a false impression that they love Botswana wildlife more than citizens of Botswana", the statement added.
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Police in Italy have arrested seven people suspected of involvement in an incident last month in which a group of young African migrants were beaten and racially abused.
Those arrested include two women. The migrants, six Gambians who are under 18, were attacked with iron bars and baseball bats by a group of people who used their cars to stop the vehicle in which they were travelling back to their reception centre.
It reportedly followed an earlier altercation near a beach to the west of Palermo in Sicily.
Image source, Getty ImagesThere are growing fears of a rise in xenophobia and racism in Italy
Image source, Getty ImagesCycling is a good way of staying fit
A report into the levels of physical inactivity across the globe has found that Uganda is the world's most active nation.
The study, published in the medical journal The Lancet, external, is a compilation of surveys done in 168 countries. It highlights the health dangers of not doing enough exercise.
It found that overall just 5.5% of Ugandans do not do enough physical activity - defined as at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity, or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity physical activity per week.
The least active nation in the world is Kuwait where 67% of the population are not active enough, the report says. Mauritania, with a figure of 41.3%, is the least active country in sub-Saharan Africa.
So what is Uganda getting right?
People in rural Uganda, where most of the population lives, are very active on their farms, says the BBC's Patience Atuhaire.
But, she says, in urban areas people are becoming more sedentary, especially as they get wealthier.
Image source, Getty ImagesFarmers have to work hard to maintain their fields
An Ethiopian cargo ship has docked in the Eritrean port of Masawa for the first time in about two decades, an Ethiopian state-linked broadcaster has tweeted:
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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is currently in Eritrea for his latest round of talks with President Isaias Afwerki after the two leaders signed an agreement in July to end the "state of war" between the two countries.
The visit is seen as vital in landlocked Ethiopia's efforts to gain access to Eritrea's ports for the first time since the 1998-2000 border conflict that killed tens of of thousands of people.
The ship arrived from Saudi Arabia, according to a tweet by a privately owned Ethiopian news site:
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At least 17 people have been killed and 12 others injured in a head-on collision between two trains in south-western Angola, the office of the regional governor has said, AFP news agency reports.
A train run by the state rail firm smashed into a stationary maintenance train that was being operated by Chinese engineers.
An investigation has been launched into Tuesday's accident, but it appears to have been caused by human error, a statement by the governor's office said, AFP reports.
"An on-duty railway employee was warned by the Chinese maintenance crew but could not prevent the departure of the train, loaded with granite, from Lubango station", an unnamed local official was quoted by AFP as saying.
"When he realised his mistake, it was too late to avoid a disaster," the official added.
A mother and her three-year-old son were critically injured after a giraffe trampled them on a farm in South Africa on Tuesday, private medical firm ER24 has said.
Paramedics initiated "life support interventions" at the scene, before airlifting the two to hospital, ER24 said.
It is still unclear how the giraffe came to trample the woman, believed to be in her 30s, and her child on the farm in the remote northern Limpopo province.
Image source, Getty ImagesGiraffes do not usually pose a threat to people
Our African proverb of the day:
Quote MessageThe person who rejects advice deserves no sympathy."
A Sepedi proverb sent by Bogope Wa Thabampshe, Ga Masemola, Polokwane, South Africa
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