Summary

  • Abductors demand ransom for twins ahead of their marriage

  • DR Congo march against electronic voting machines

  • Nigeria curfew after kidnapped chief's death

  • Female human-traffickers arrested in Ghana

  • Cameroon election fire story 'is fake news'

  • Uproar over Buhari's 'missing' school certificate

  • Morocco to abandon summer-time clock change

  • Nigeria protest over Khashoggi killing

  • Congolese diamond deportees 'need help'

  • Celebrity mock wedding to raise funds for singleton to go to university

  • Gabon's president in hospital 'for fatigue'

  • Kenya building collapses on petrol station

  • Cameroon to play Brazil in November

  • Rwanda hosts top football gathering

  1. Wise wordspublished at 08:58 British Summer Time 22 October 2018

    Monday's African proverb:

    Quote Message

    A restless bird eventually ends up in a viper’s mouth."

    A Somali proverb sent by Abdi Abdallah

    the moment a female woodpecker tried to defend her nest from a mammoth three-metre snake.Image source, Getty Images

    Click here to send us your African proverbs.

  2. Good morningpublished at 08:58 British Summer Time 22 October 2018

    Welcome to the BBC Africa Live page where we'll be bringing you news and developments from the continent.