Scroll down for this week's storiespublished at 17:50 Greenwich Mean Time 7 December 2018
We'll be back next week
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.
A reminder of today's wise words:
Quote MessageIf you live by the river you can hear the crab cough
Sent by Felix Jennings Boafo in Accra, Ghana
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And we leave you with one of our favourite pictures from this week, which caught ballet dancers mid-flight in Kenya's capital Nairobi: