That's all from BBC Africa Live for now, but you can 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 Friday's wise words:

We leave you with this shot taken in Mozambique - it's one of our favourite photos of the week:

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Our satirical presidents Olushambles and Kibakimad are back, and this week they've got money on their minds.

Listen to their latest hare-brained scheme, recorded by BBC Focus on Africa:

Andrew Gift
BBC Pidgin

Some young Nigerians have been protesting in the country's commercial hub, Lagos, asking the government to get rid of a controversial unit in the country’s police force.

The Special Anti-Robbery Squad, known as Sars, has been accused of killing innocent citizens.

Friday's protest was triggered by the recent killing of a young man, Kolade Johnson, by a police officer.

Sars has not commented on this killing or others that it has been accused of being involved in.

The protesters carried placards with inscriptions like "Sars stop killing innocent people" and "government should scrap Sars".

Adelaja Adeoye, who called the protest, said the government must investigate Sars and all the officials who are alleged to have been involved in the deaths.

There were similar protests in other cities.

BBC World Service

The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, says his talks with Libya's most powerful military commander have ended in failure.

"I leave Libya with a heavy heart and deeply concerned," he tweeted after meeting Khalifa Haftar in the eastern city of Benghazi, in an attempt to prevent what he called a bloody confrontation.

On Thursday, Khalifa Haftar ordered his forces to advance on the capital Tripoli, where the internationally recognised government is based.

Mr Haftar has his powerbase in the east of the country, where he is allied to a rival government.

In his tweet, Mr Guterres repeated the UN's commitment to facilitating a political solution and supporting the Libyan people.

More about Libya:

• Who is military strongman Khalifa Haftar?
• Why is Libya so lawless?

Wycliffe Muia
BBC Monitoring

Malawians are venting on social media about a new statue of late President Bingu wa Mutharika that they say looks nothing like him.

Some have even accused the government officials responsible for "disrespecting" their former leader, who served from 2004 until his death in 2012.

South African sculptor Jean Doyle has defended her piece against the critics, telling the Nyasa Times it was supervised by government officials and Mr Mutharika's family who "gave it the go-ahead, they liked what they saw".

The statue in Lilongwe is being unveiled by Malawi's President Peter Mutharika, the brother of the former president, on Friday to mark the seventh anniversary of Mr Mutharika's death.

Mary Harper
Africa editor, BBC World Service

In a rare admission, the US military has acknowledged it killed two civilians in an airstrike in Somalia last year - following pressure from human rights groups and Congress.

US Africa Command said a strike near the town of Eel Buur had killed two civilians and four militants, not five militants as originally reported.

It described the killing of the civilians as an isolated occurence.

The rights group Amnesty International says it has documented the deaths of 14 civilians during five US airstrikes in Somalia.

The number of strikes has increased sharply in recent months.

Read more:

• US attacks in Somalia increase under Trump
• Who are Somalia's al-Shabab militants?

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Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Nairobi

Boeing's apology, external for last month's fatal Ethiopian Airlines crash has come too late, the pilot's father has told the BBC.

"Too little, too small," is Getachew Tessema's verdict.

He has also hit out at "nasty comments" from US newspapers at the time of the crash, and says previous comments from a Boeing employee suggesting that Ethiopian Airlines staff were inexperienced amounted to "character assassination".

Dr Getachew says his son, Captain Yared Getachew, "was only 29 with a bright future and his life was cut short," yet doesn't regret his choice to become a pilot because he served honourably and "died in the course of his duty".

He has called for a memorial to be created at the crash site.

Read more:

• Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 pilots 'could not stop nosedive'

• Who are the victims of crash?

Six years ago Romain Saiss was playing non-League football, but now the midfielder plays for a Premier League team and could make history as the first Moroccan to lift the FA Cup.

His Wolverhampton Wanderers side hope to beat Watford when they meet on Sunday.

BBC Sport Africa profiles the 29-year-old:

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The youth are the main driving force behind these demonstrations, young men and women who have known no president other than Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

But they are not satisfied.

"We are tired of this regime, they have robbed us. We've had enough of that," an emotional young woman tells me.

Nearly half of the population is under 30, many of whom are unemployed and having to live in poor conditions.

But I have also seen Algerians from older generations taking part in the protests. Everybody here wants a change.

They are sending a clear message: "A new phase with new faces". They tell me the don't trust anyone associated with the Bouteflika era.

The mood is full of enthusiasm and energy but the people here take pride in the peaceful nature of the protests.

They have been emboldened by their success in unseating the president and now believe the same can happen with his entourage.

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Mary Harper
Africa editor, BBC World Service

France's president has appointed a panel of experts to look into the country's actions during the Rwandan genocide 25 years ago.

The presidency said the commission of researchers and historians would consult all of France's archives relating to the genocide in order to analyse the French activities in Rwanda at the time.

Rwanda for years has accused France of complicity in the genocide, and the two countries severed diplomatic relations for a time.

France last year dropped a probe into the possible role of officials allied to the Rwandan President Paul Kagame in the shooting down of a plane that sparked the genocide.

There have been a number of other French investigations into its possible role in the genocide.

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Thousands of protesters are again taking to the streets in Algeria demanding a complete overhaul of the country's political structure.

It's the seventh successive Friday that anti-government demonstrations have taken place. Earlier on Friday, the head of intelligence was reportedly sacked.

Athmane Tartag was a close ally of the four-term president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who tendered his resignation this week.

A caretaker government is currently in place, but opposition leaders have refused to negotiate for now, saying they will only be satisfied with radical change.

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UN chief Antonio Gutteres is to meet the leader of forces in eastern Libya who hours earlier ordered troops to march on the capital, Tripoli.

General Khalifa Haftar controls some parts of the country, while Tripoli is the base of the internationally recognised government.

"There is no military solution to the Libyan crisis, only a political one," Mr Guterres said in a tweet.

Libya has been riven by violence and division since long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi was deposed and killed in 2011.

The US, UK, France, Italy and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) issued a joint statement appealing for calm following the news of General Haftar's advance on the Libyan capital.

The UN Security Council will meet on Friday to discuss the situation following a request from the UK, reports said.

Regarding the passage of migrants through Libya and into Europe, UN Secretary-General Guterres said in a tweet that they are "not only Libya's responsibility, they are the responibility of the whole international community".

More about Libya:

• Who is military strongman Khalifa Haftar?
• Why is Libya so lawless?

Mary Harper
Africa editor, BBC World Service

The pressure group, Physicians for Human Rights, says it has evidence from Sudan of the killing, persecution and torture of peaceful protesters and the medical professionals who care for them.

It said the security forces had attacked at least seven medical facilities in Sudan and arrested at least least 136 health workers.

It added that 60 protesters had been killed by government forces, including a doctor and two medical students.

There have been months of anti-government protests, sparked by the rising cost of living, but with increasing demands for President Omar al-Bashir to step down.

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Read more:'Why Sudan is shooting medics'

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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has said his country loses $1.1bn (£837m) every year to medical tourism, local media reports say.

In a speech to policy makers read out on his behalf, Mr Buhari said that the gaps in universal healthcare provision need to be addressed, the Vanguard newspaper reports., external

Several newspapers quote the president as saying in the speech:

At his own expense, Mr Buhari himself made several trips to the UK for medical reasons during his first term, resulting in a long absence from office.

BBC World Service

Reports from Algeria say that the head of intelligence has been dismissed as anti-government protesters say they will take to the streets again today to demand a complete overhaul of the political system.

Several media outlets in Algeria say that Athmane Tartag had been removed from his post.

A retired army general, he was an ally of the veteran President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who announced his resignation earlierthis week in the face of mass protests.

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An activist and abortion rights advocate in Rwanda has welcomed President Paul Kagame's move to forgive more than 360 women and girls convicted in abortion-related cases over the years.

Chantal Umuhoza told BBC Newsday the decision is a positive step that shows willingness from the government to take steps to legalise or decriminalise abortion in Rwanda.

"I was really happy because this is the second time that our president pardons women and girls who are convicted of abortion," Ms Umuhoza said.

In 2016, Mr Kagame pardoned 62 girls and women, external.

The president's decision covers cases of women who were jailed for carrying out either abortions, infanticide or were accomplices in such cases.

The announcement was made after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

Ms Umuhoza said many women think twice before seeking abortion services.

She said, when it comes to abortion, the law allows it in "very limited cases" such as rape, and this forces the majority of women who are looking to end unwanted pregnancies to opt for unsafe abortions.

Ms Umuhoza said she hoped the government would decriminalise abortion so that any woman can access it as a healthcare service.

Some Rwandans on Twitter have celebrated the president's decision:

One person called for an investigation into the abortion cases:

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Efe Obada, who made a stunning NFL debut in September 2018, has spoken to the BBC about his extraordinary rise to the heights of international sport.

Born in Nigeria, Obada moved to the Netherlands to live with his mother when he was eight years old. Two years later, he and his sister were taken to London.

The details of how they came to arrive in England's capital are still unclear. The word "trafficked" has been used, but Obada has not exactly described it in those terms.

The most open he has been on the subject was in a blog on the Carolina Panthers website in August 2017. Writing there, he said he and his sister were brought over "by a stranger who was supposed to look after us - they did not".

Revisiting that time now, he is reluctant to share full details of the traumatic experience. But what is certain is that at the age of 10, he was abandoned with his sister on the streets of Hackney, east London.

They spent two nights sleeping rough before a security guard gave them shelter in the tower block he was working in. With his help, the children were eventually looked after temporarily by a friend of their mother. When that arrangement broke down, Obada spent the remainder of his childhood in more than 10 different foster homes.

"It was my life. It was my story," he says. "It was what I was going through.

"There were some lows but it was so normalised. Then getting into the NFL and looking back and having all these people having an opinion on my life it was like: 'Oh, actually maybe that's not normal.'

"But at the time it was normal for me. It was my surroundings. You have just got to survive. Do you know what I mean?"

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Hundreds of people in the Somali capital have been taking part in the city's second annual mini-marathon.

Spectators have been sharing photos and videos of the event on Twitter:

Matthew Kenyon
BBC Africa Sport

Staying with football - Cameroon's women continued their preparations for the World Cup later this year with a victory over Croatia at a four-team tournament in China.

They won 2-1 with goals from Madeleine Ngono Mani and Henriette Akaba.

Cameroon will play China in the final after they beat Russia 4-1.

Matthew Kenyon
BBC Africa Sport

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There are four African Champions League football matches on Saturday – all of them quarter-final first-leg games.

Defending champions Esperance are in Algeria to play CS Constantine, Guinea’s Horoya host Wydad Casablanca, eight-times winners Al Ahly are in South Africa to take on Mamelodi Sundowns, and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s Simba - who have never been to this stage of the tournament before - host TP Mazembe from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

Speaking to the BBC, the coach of Simba, Patrick Aussems, believes his team, who have won every single home game in the competition this year, have what it takes to overcome their opponents.

He said: