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Nigeria beat Egypt in a friendly thanks to a goal scored inside 10 seconds in Asaba on Tuesday.

Denmark-based striker Paul Onuachu fired home from outside the box to score the only goal of the game.

Elsewhere, Senegal needed Sadio Mane to come off the bench and help them to a win over Mali.

Also on Tuesday Algeria beat Tunisia, Ivory Coast beat Liberia, Ghana won at home to Mauritania and Morocco were beaten by Argentina.

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A combination of factors ranging from conflict to diplomatic isolation have unintentionally turned the Eritrean capital into a cycling paradise.

Asmara only has about 500,000 inhabitants, which combined with low salaries, high import taxes and fuel shortages means the city has few vehicles. Those you do see often tend to be from a different age.

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Roads are not only relatively empty of cars. Locals lament the departure of great numbers of young Eritreans who have left over the last 20 years because of hardships brought by regional conflicts and enforced national service under a government that brooks little dissent.

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As a result of its circumstances, Asmara offers a very different landscape compared to many African cities congested with traffic. This, combined with the wonderful climate, makes it a dream for cyclists to get around. "Cycling is part of our culture," says a 25-year-old man.

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A high court in Kenya has ruled that children cannot inherit their step-parents' property unless they prove their guardians had voluntarily agreed to parent them, privately owned newspaper Daily Nation reports., external

The law of succession says a man can take in a child that is not biologically his, but that does not automatically make the child an heir to his property unless there is an adoption order, Judge Teresiah Matheka is quoted as saying.

The judge - sitting in the high court in Nyeri in central Kenya - said in the case of a dispute the child has to prove that the step-father took him or her in as his own, says the paper.

The ruling follows a case involving a man called Paul Wachira who wanted to inherit his step-father's property that includes land, money and personal effects, the local daily says.

Judge Matheka said his step-father, Samuel Maina Mbora, "did not voluntarily assume permanent parental responsibilities", in a ruling that came after a 15-year dispute, reports the newspaper.

Mr Wachira had argued that Mr Mbora was married to his mother for 10 years and had been appointed next of kin by her husband, automatically making him an heir, says the paper.

Maritime and island nations such as the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean are looking to make the most of the resources that can be extracted from seas and oceans on our planet, in what's being described as the Blue Economy.

The vice president of the Seychelles, Vincent Meriton, describes to BBC Newsday how it works and how they plan to benefit from it:

As a rally navigator, Tuta Mionki helps drivers avoid obstacles and win races.

The human resources consultant spends most of her spare time taking part in the sport and wants to encourage more women to enter motor sports.

Ms Mionki holds the Kenya Motor Sports Federation Awards for the best co-driver of the season 2015 (division 3) and 2016 (2-wheel-drive).

In 2018, the co-driver also made history by becoming the first woman to win the Kenya Motor Sport Federation Motor Sports Personality of the Year.

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The president of the Comoros Islands has been re-elected in a landslide victory which the opposition has described as a sham.

The electoral commission announced that President Azali Assoumani had won just over 60% of the votes -four times more than his nearest rival, Mahamoudou Ahamada.

The election was held after a controversial referendum, boycotted by the opposition, that saw the presidential mandate extended from one to two terms.

The Supreme Court barred some of the president's main rivals - including a former president, Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, who has been accused of corruption.

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Burundi is to release three schoolgirls who were detained for allegedly scribbling on President Pierre Nkurunziza's picture in textbooks, Justice Minister Aimée Laurentine Kanyana has said.

The detention of the girls about two weeks ago on a charge of insulting the head of state had led to a social media campaign under the hashtag #FreeOurGirls, with people posting on Twitter images of the president defaced with clown wigs and twirly images.

The minister said the girls - aged 15,16 and 17 - would be provisionally released.

"We call on parents to strengthen the education of their children. We remind children that they have to respect authorities, that the age of criminal responsibility is 15," she told state broadcaster RTNB.

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Correction: An earlier version of this post quoted the minister as saying the girls had already been freed.

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The UN World Food Programme (WFP) says that Cyclone Idai, which hit southern Africa 12 days ago, wiped out a whole year's worth of crops across swathes of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe.

WFP Executive Director David Beasley told the BBC that farmers had lost everything and the aid effort urgently needed funds to tackle what was going to be a long-lasting humanitarian crisis.

Cyclone Idai destroyed tens of thousands of homes in Mozambique where more than 1.8 million people are in need of assistance.

With fears of water-borne diseases the World Health Organization says it is sending close to 900,000 doses of a cholera vaccine which it expects to arrive within the next 10 days.

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• Read more: How prepared was southern Africa for Cyclone Idai?

Barrister and women’s rights campaigner Cherie Blair has been criticised for saying "most African ladies’ first sexual experience is rape”, reports the UK Guardian newspaper, external.

British MP Chi Onwurah, who is chair of the all-party parliamentary group for Africa, is quoted as saying: “Ms Blair should enable African women to speak for themselves instead of usurping their voice and their experience."

On Twitter others have also accused Ms Blair of re-enforcing stereotypes:

But Ms Blair is quoted in the article as standing by her assertion:

She was giving a talk about women and leadership at a secondary school in the UK on 20 March, the Guardian adds.

Rana Jawad
BBC North Africa correspondent, Tunis

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The announcement by Algeria’s army chief that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika must be declared unfit to rule is symbolically significant.

However, given the reality of Mr Bouteflika’s health status, the constitutional impasse over an extension to his current mandate until elections are held, and the rallying calls by protesters who remain on Algeria’s streets, the move is hardly unexpected.

Still, there will be questions over Lt Gen Ahmed Gaed Salah motivations.

In recent years, it is the president’s circle of political and army loyalists who appear to have spoken on his behalf as his absence due to illness.

Gen Gaed Salah is viewed as fiercely loyal to Mr Bouteflika and a central pillar to the ruling powers of Algeria – so much so that on the weekend, a privately-owned local newspaper reported that he must resign along with Mr Bouteflika.

For this to go through, the country’s constitutional council will need to back this latest call, and then the parliament will officially decide the president’s political fate.

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The Comoros' election body has delayed releasing presidential election results, an electoral source told Reuters news agency.

It adds that opposition candidates have rejected the outcome.

Observers from the African Union, Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa and Eastern African Standby Force said on Monday the voting process was full of irregularities that led them to conclude it lacked credibility or transparency.

The government has banned public gatherings in the capital, Moroni, Reuters adds.

On Monday, police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators led by opposition leaders protesting over the vote.

The presidency used to be rotated around the three Indian Ocean islands that make up the country every five years - a system which was put in place to stop constant coups.

But a referendum last year increased term limits, allowing President Azali Assoumani to run for re-election.

He is running against 12 opponents but is widely expected to win.

A South African dermatologist's study suggests that one type of hair loss among women of African descent could be genetic, reports IOL news, external.

Chemical straightening, braids and heat combs are often blamed for hair loss.

But Professor Ncoza Dlova's study showed that the gene which helps hair shaft growth had mutated in women with the type of hair loss that radiates outwards from the centre of the crown. This mutation causes destruction of the hair follicles leading to scarring and permanent hair loss.

She made the breakthrough after she followed 15 families for five years, Heath24 adds, external.

“This has huge implications on early diagnosis, prevention and possible future targeted therapy of CCCA [Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia]” the news site quoted her as saying.

Dakar-based photographer Marta Moreiras has made the shortlist for the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards.

Here series Pères looks at the role of the father in Senegal, showing those who are engaged in the education and care of their children to the same extent as the mothers.

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Algeria's chief of staff Lt Gen Ahmed Gaed Salah has called for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down immediately.

The president had agreed to step down once a new constitution had been agreed.

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The UN has sent a team of investigators to central Mali where it says more than 150 people were killed over the weekend.

A UN spokeswoman said the massacre in the village of Ogossagou marked a significant surge in violence across communal lines by so-called self-defence groups.

They have become increasingly aggressive since 2015 when jihadists started carrying out attacks in the area.

The UN says 600 people, including many women and children, have been killed in the Mopti region over the last year.

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has called on the military to be constantly mobilised and said Mali was in a state of war.

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Newspapers are reacting to the prosecution of a Hong Kong politician who tried to bribe two African presidents in exchange for contracts for a Chinese oil company.

On Monday, Patrick Ho Chi-Ping was sentenced to three years in prison in the US for bribery and money laundering.

CNN said, external that the trial of Patrick Ho Chi-Ping "felt like a Hollywood film script".

"It spanned three continents, millions of dollars and included clandestine meetings with African leaders in the middle of the Sahara Desert."

That deal in the Sahara Desert refers to Ho allegedly offering a $2m (£1.5m) cash bribe in gift boxes to the President of Chad Idriss Deby, CNN says.

Prosecutors said Ho proposed flying secretly to “a village in the middle of the desert” to meet Mr Deby and negotiate fines imposed by Chad on China’s state oil company, reports the Financial Times., external

The government of Chad deny the claims.

CNN adds that Ho also schemed to pay a $500,000 cash bribe to the President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni. It stipulates that the bribe was not paid and there is no suggestion that Mr Museveni accepted or solicited it.

Chris Ewokor
BBC Africa, Abuja

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Election observers say they witnessed the intimidation of voters and violence during the supplementary elections held in Nigeria at the weekend.

The European Union Election Observation Mission said that there were groups of men with weapons who intimidated and obstructed the voting process.

In particular, the EU mission said local and international observers and journalists were prevented from accessing parts of Kano state where the supplementary elections were being held.

The mission said it was disturbed that both the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) and security agencies did little to address the violence, which spread to many parts of Kano state.

The police and Inec are yet to respond to the EU statement.

Nigeria's electoral commission declared the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress party winner of the Kano governorship poll.

So far the APC of President Muhammadu Buhari controls 16 states, while the main opposition PDP won 12 states from the gubernatorial polls.

The elections were held in five states after the country’s electoral commission cancelled ballots in some areas and called for a rerun.