Scroll down for this week's storiespublished at 17:55 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2019
We'll be back on Monday
We're now closing the BBC Africa Live page 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 MessageWho knows how water entered into the stalk of the pumpkin?"
An Igbo proverb sent by Chukwuemeka Ekere, Calabar, Nigeria
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We leave you with this image taken from our selection of the best pictures of the week from a church service in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt: