That's all from BBC Africa Live for this week. Keep up-to-date with what's happening across the continent by listening to the Africa Today podcast or check the BBC News website.

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African states are accepting France's offer to send back artworks in its museums.

The BBC's Pierre-Antoine Denis tells Caroline Wyatt what French museums think of it:

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A UN investigation into its refugee programme in Uganda has uncovered misconduct and corruption.

The audit found that millions of dollars were misspent awarding major contracts improperly and overpaying for goods and services.

Speaking to the BBC, UNHCR Uganda Country Director Joel Boutroue denied that any money was overpaid:

Until recently, Uganda has been lauded for its immigration policies and described as one of the best places in the world to be a refugee.

Uganda is said to host some 1.4 million refugees - welcoming more than any other country in 2016 - mostly from South Sudan and DR Congo.

In February, four Ugandan government officials were suspended amid allegations they had inflated refugee figures.

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

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Lawyers for South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma have called for criminal charges against him to be dropped.

He appeared in court today, and his trial was adjourned until 20 May next year in a move that was agreed on by both the defence and prosecution.

Mr Zuma is facing 16 charges for corruption, money laundering and racketeering emanating from a 1999 arms deal.

Both Mr Zuma and French arms company, Thales, have applied for the court to quash the whole trial and will argue for a permanent stay from prosecution when the trial resumes.

For its part, Thales cites an unfair trial in its application.

Meanwhile, the 76-year-old former president cited political interference by the National Prosecuting Authority and what he called "blatant prosecutorial bias" among others as reasons for the case to be dropped.

Read more:

• South Africa arms deal that landed Zuma in court: What you need to know
• Jacob Zuma - the survivor whose nine lives ran out

Our satirical presidents, Olushambles and Kibarkingmad, have a few choice words for British Prime Minister Theresa May.

Here's their take on all things Brexit:

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Ishaq Khalid
BBC Africa, Abuja

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Nigerian police say they have killed 104 gunmen in the north-western state of Zamfara, near the village of Birnin-Magaji.

Authorities say the incident followed an ambush on a police patrol convoy in a remote area where armed cattle thieves frequently attack villages, carrying out mass killings and abductions as well as stealing livestock.

Hundreds of cattle and sheep were recovered from the gunmen, several of whose camps were destroyed.

Police say one officer was killed in the violence, but some reports suggest the force suffered multiple casualties.

Clashes between farmers and nomadic herders are common in several states in Nigeria. It is a key security challenge that Nigeria's government is under pressure to resolve ahead of general elections in February.

To that end, government troops, the Nigerian air force and the police have all been deployed recently.

• Read more: Making sense of Nigeria's Fulani-farmer conflict

Women in Madagascar say they are being jailed for crimes their male relatives are accused of.

BBC 100 Women has had access to Madagascan prisons to speak to women who have been detained for months – and sometimes years – told they were "accomplices" or should have known what their husbands, brothers or sons were doing.

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Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says there has been a wave of "horrific episodes of sexual violence" against women and girls over the past 10 days in northern South Sudan.

MSF has given "emergency medical and psycho-social support to 125 women and girls who were raped, robbed and beaten in Rubkona County", it said in a statement.

That's compared to the 104 sexual and gender-based violence survivors who used MSF's services in the first 10 months of this year.

Some of the survivors are younger than 10 years old while others are over 65, it added.

Their attackers reportedly robbed them of anything of value they had - including money, clothes and shoes - and destroyed their ration cards, preventing them from receiving food distributions.

MSF says the rise in attacks on women coincides with a rise in the number of displaced people seeking food aid distributions in the region.

They say women have taken to walking together in large groups for safety, but they are frequently targeted by groups of attackers.

A fragile ceasefire is currently in place in the country, after a power-sharing deal between the warring sides was signed in September.

Years of civil conflict have forced 3.8 million people from their homes according to the World Food Programme, while the UN has identified 40 officials who it says may be individually responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The Women's Africa Cup of Nations final is on Saturday but should the winners get the same prize money as their male counterparts?

The winning team currently receives significantly less financial reward for winning the tournament than not just the senior men's teams but also the male Under-20 and Under-17 sides.

Sport Africa's Janine Anthony has been taking a closer look during this year's tournament in Ghana.

Peter Tah
Cameroon

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The Cameroonian army has released pictures of an attack on a military convoy in the Kembong village in the restive South-West region on Thursday.

Activists pushing for an independent state for the country’s English-speaking South-West and North-West regions said separatists fighters were behind the attack.

The fighters said they planted an improvised explosive device (IED) in an uneven road - that its fighters had dug - to stall security forces' advances in the area.

The army has, however, not yet issued an official statement on the attack where no soldier was reportedly killed but it's unclear if there were injuries.

I tried to contact the army for a reaction but there was no response.

Kembong is one of the worst affected areas by the ongoing fighting between the army and Anglophone separatist fighters, who want to create an independent state called Ambazonia.

If anything, the successful use of an IED points to the escalation of the Anglophone crisis.

The country's English-speaking regions have been hit by more than a year of deadly violence. Residents say the francophone majority discriminate against them in court and schools.

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Thursday's attack comes barely a month after President Paul Biya called on the secessionist movement to lay down their arms and "get back to the right track".

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UK researchers have developed an early warning system to prevent the crops of African farmers from being devastated.

The Pest Risk Information Service (Prise) , externalcombines temperature data and weather forecasts with computer models.

It then sends farmers a mobile phone alert so that they can take precautions.

It is hoped that the system will boost yields and increase farm incomes by up to 20%.

Prise is being used in Kenya, Ghana and Zambia and will be rolled out soon in other parts of the world.

Prise is an upgrade of a highly successful UK Aid scheme run by the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International development charity (CABI).

It uses a network of so-called "plant doctors" and clinics to advise farmers when pests or diseases destroy their crops.

Farmers and plant doctors have access to an app to help them diagnose pest infestations and suggest remedies

The "doctors" draw on a database using an app to help them diagnose the issue and then prescribe the right pesticide and other measures. Walter Wafula, who grows maize in Bungoma in Kenya, told BBC News that the service had transformed his family's life.

Read the full story on the BBC website.

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The Confederation of African Football (Caf) has revealed its preliminary lists of nominees, external for the 2018 African men's and women's Player of the Year awards.

Thirty-four names have been revealed for the men's category, with eight of the nominees playing in the English Premier League.

Last year's winner, Egypt forward Mohamed Salah,is joined on the list by his two Liverpool team-mates Sadio Mane of Senegal and Guinea international Naby Keita.

Twelve men on the list play their football in Africa, including Youcef Belaili, Taha Khenissi and Anis Badri - who all play for the 2018 African Champions League winners Esperance in Tunisia.

Caf previously had an Africa-based Player of the Year category which has now stopped.

Read more on the BBC Sport Africa website.

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The former South African rugby player Naka Drotske is in hospital after being shot during a burglary outside the capital Pretoria.

Drotske - a member of the 1995 World Cup winning team - was with another former Springbok player, Os du Randt, when at least three men burst in on them on Thursday evening.

Drotske was shot three times in the ensuing scuffle, while Du Randt remained unharmed.

A police spokesman said 47-year-old Drotske was in a serious but stable condition.

Drotske won 26 caps for South Africa between 1993 and 1999 and also played for London Irish from 2001-2003.

After retiring from playing he coached Super Rugby side the Cheetahs, before quitting rugby in 2015 to pursue business interests.

He used to work as a lecturer in computing at the university, but now Roland Kgosimore makes "peanuts" by driving taxis in Gaborone.

So why is it so hard to make a living in Botswana?

The BBC's Alan Kasujja went along for a drive with him.

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to break ground for the building of a new parliament, the information ministry has tweeted.

The building which is to be located on farmland north-west of the capital, Harare, will have a total floor area of 33,000 square metres.

When completed it will replace the current parliament building, built in the colonial era, which the government has said is too small to house its more than 200 lawmakers.

The project will cost $46m (£36m), news site Quartz reported in 2016. , external

An artist's impression of the building, which is being funded by China, has been shared by the information ministry:

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The UN's children's agency Unicef says two-thirds of the children in the Central African Republic - 1.5 million in all - need humanitarian aid and the crisis is getting worse.

In a report, Unicef says one in four children in the CAR is displaced and thousands have been subjected to sexual violence, yet this year the organisation has received less than half the funds it needs to help them.

After years of sectarian conflict, armed groups control much of the CAR. Attacks on aid workers have quadrupled since 2017.

Read more:Singing for peace in the Central African Republic

Chris Ewokor
BBC Africa, Abuja

Former US President Barack Obama meddled in Nigeria's 2015 election, former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, has told the BBC.

He repeated the claim made in his recently released book, My Transition Hours.

"The level of interference by the Obama's government was very overwhelming," adding that it went "outside the normal diplomatic relationship," Mr Jonathan said.

He cited the #BringBackOurGirls - a social media campaign launched to highlight the plight of 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in 2014 - and backed by Mr Obama's wife, Michelle, as having cast his government in a bad light:

He said the US State Department poured "vitriol on our administration" and presented his government "as a problem of Nigeria, far beyond the Chibok situation".

Mr Jonathan also said he was worried about the "neutrality of the relevant agencies of government" who have a role in next year's election, but said he hoped they would do their job.

Watch the interview below:

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That's all from BBC Africa Live for now. Keep up-to-date with what's happening across the continent by listening to the Africa Today podcast or check the BBC News website.

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And we leave you with a view of the sun setting at the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe: