The 74-year-old president can run in 2021
Gambian soldiers' remains exhumed
Nigeria's top judge is banned from public office
Brothers of Sudan's ousted president arrested
Fossils of giant mammal found in Kenya
Boeing update software after Ethiopia crash
Mo Salah makes the cover of Time
Our African proverb of the day:
Quote MessageA person who praises himself is like a she-goat that drinks its own milk."
A Somali proverb sent by Dennis Ochieng, Garissa, Kenya.
Welcome to BBC Africa Live where we will bring you the latest news and views from around the continent.
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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.
A reminder of today's wise words:
Quote MessageIt is easier to remove a thorn from someone else's foot than from your own."
A Kinyarwanda proverb sent by Taremwa Fred, Nyagatare, Rwanda.
And we leave you with this scene from the streets of Nigeria's commercial hub, Lagos:
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Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service
Image source, ReutersProtesters were pictured today still gathering in Khartoum
Under pressure from protest organisers, the transitional military council running Sudan has sacked the Public Prosecutor Gen Omer Ahmed Mohamed and his deputy Hesham Othman Ibrahim Saleh.
Both played a key role locking up government critics and protesters before the veteran president, Omar al-Bashir, was overthrown.
The head of the military council Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has also dismissed the head of the state-owned TV and Radio Corporation, Mohammed Hatim Suleiman.
In recent days its coverage of events has changed, with voices from the country's protest movement and opposition being allowed on air.
"This is a key change," BBC media monitoring analyst Moses Rono says.
On Monday two prominent activists - Hisham Mohammed Ali Wad Qolba and Mohammed Hassan al-Bushi - were released from jail and immediately appeared on Sudan TV where they accused the channel of being biased:
Image source, Sudan TV
Image source, Sudan TVProtest organisers are demanding that the military immediately hands over to a civilian-led administration.
Thomas Naadi
BBC Africa, Accra
Image source, Dr Benjamin Dabo SarkodieLast month, history was made in Ghana as a team of seven doctors successfully performed the first-ever brain surgery in the country, without cutting the skull.
The doctors operated on a patient, who had had a stroke, by using pinhole surgery.
The doctors safely removed brain and skull-base tumours through small and precise openings that minimise damage.
Now the leader of the medical team, Dr Benjamin Dabo Sarkodie, told me that he sees this as just the beginning:
"I’m excited about the future of medicine in this country and also it has a tourism potential to bring people from other neighbouring countries for treatment."
Jonathan Paye-Layleh
BBC Africa, Monrovia
Image source, Getty ImagesPeople in Monrovia worry they won't be able to afford to use their phones
Consumers in Liberia say they fear they won’t be able to afford to make phone calls when a ban on a call promotion is brought in.
The country’s telecoms authority announced in February that they would bring in a ban on some promotions by the two main companies MTN and Cellcom.
The ban was expected to be implemented on Monday but so far it hasn’t been implemented.
The particular ban is on a promotion where you can pay one Liberian dollar (less than one US cent) for three days of unlimited calls.
The authorities brought in the ban to stop a price war which was blocking other telecoms companies from the Liberian market.
But consumers told Focus on Africa radio that they preferred the promotion.
It is now not clear when the ban will come into place.
Image source, ReutersA family of a Kenyan man who died in last month's Ethiopia Airlines crash said it is taking the plane manufacturer Boeing to court in the US.
In all, 157 people died when the Boeing 737-Max 8 went down six minutes after take off on a flight from Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
The 29-year-old engineer George Kabau was one of more than 30 Kenyans on board.
At a press conference in Nairobi his siblings said they wanted the company to release emails relating to the plane, which has now been grounded, Reuters news agency reports.
"We cannot replace him, and he cannot and shall not be replaced. But we pray that by what is happening, my parents especially and us as his siblings and all other loved ones, can use his demise to ensure safe travel for all," said Mr Kabau's sister.
Boeing is facing three other law suits relating to the Ethiopia crash, including from members of the family of a Rwandan victim.
The Ethiopian Airlines plane nose dived several times before it hit the ground, a preliminary report released a fortnight ago said.
Pilots "repeatedly" followed procedures recommended by Boeing before the crash, according to the first official report into the disaster, external.
Boeing's boss has admitted for the first time a failure in the jet's anti-stall system was a factor in the crash.
But the company has not commented on the legal cases.
Ethiopian Airlines ET302: The local woman mourning with families
BBC World Service
Image source, AFPEgypt's parliament has approved a constitutional change that would lengthen President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's term in office, making it possible for him to stay in power until 2030.
The parliament is also expected to give the president more influence over the judiciary, with the ability to appoint judges.
Mr Sisi's supporters say he needs more time in office to complete major economic reforms.
But his opponents say the changes would concentrate greater power in the hands of a leader who has relentlessly stifled freedoms, and been bitterly criticised for his human rights record.
The Canadian High Commission in Nigeria has warned that a story claiming that Canada wants one million Nigerian immigrants is fake news.
The story has been spreading over the last couple of days with the headline, "Canada's prime minister begs Nigeria's president for one million immigrants".
But, in a tweet on the High Commission's official account, they warn that the story is too good to be true:
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The embassy puts the number into context - saying that "over 4,200 Nigerians were approved for permanent residency in Canada in 2017.
Ameyu Etana
BBC Afaan Oromo
Famous Ethiopian athlete Tirunesh Dibaba has pulled out from this year’s London Marathon for personal reasons, the organizers have announced, without giving details.
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The three-time Olympic champion and 5,000m world record holder has dominated long distance races.
But Tirunesh has not been as successful in marathon races, and did not finish last year's London Marathon.
She came second in the 2017 London Marathon when she set her personal best.
Defending champion Vivian Cheruiyot and Mary Ketany are among the athletes who will compete at this year's London Marathon, which will be held on 28 April. .
Zelalem Tadesse
BBC Afaan Oromoo
Image source, OtherThe OLF fighters were rushed to hospital for treatment
The condition of 154 Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) fighters who are being treated at a hospital in south-western Ethiopia for suspected "chemical poisoning" is improving, a doctor has told BBC Afaan Oromoo.
Dr Abdulatif Isiak's comments came as the Oromia regional government denied that the group had been poisoned at the Tollay camp.
"Information saying the soldiers were poisoned is false," regional government spokesman Admasu Damtew said, adding the fighters might have become ill after drinking tea made with "over-chlorinated water".
But Dr Abdulatif said that if this was the case, then staff at the government-run camp would have also fallen ill.
Some of the sick fighters said they suspected the tea they were given at breakfast on Sunday at the camp contained poison.
They collapsed, and had to be taken to hospital in the nearby town of Waliso.
Dr Abdulatif said the patients had the symptoms of "chemical poisoning", and not food poisoning caused by bacteria and viruses.
In a BBC Afaan Oromoo interview, the region's deputy police commissioner, Reta Belachew, said leaders of the camp tasted the tea, but nothing happened to them.
He could not explain why 154 fighters then fell ill, saying samples of the tea had been taken to the capital, Addis Ababa, for laboratory tests and the results should be awaited.
More than 800 OLF fighters are at the Tollay camp, where they are learning about the constitution and the rule of law with the aim of being integrated into the Oromia region's security force.
They had heeded a call earlier this year by Abba Gadas - a respected body of traditional leaders and elders - to lay down their weapons.
The OLF fighters have previously complained of a lack of food and proper sanitation at the camp.
Two Cuban doctors were abducted in Madeira last week and are believed to have been taken to Somalia by al-Shabaab militants
Kenyan officials have evacuated doctors working in counties near the Somalia border after abductions, reports the Washington Post, external.
Last week two Cuban doctors were abducted and their security guard killed by gunmen believed to belong to the Somalia-based al-Shabab militant group.
The group has conducted frequent assaults in Mandera, which borders Somalia, to put pressure on the Kenyan government to withdraw its troops from Somalia.
Larry Madowo
BBC Africa Business Editor
Image source, ReutersMost people in West Africa still don't have mobile phones, according to a report by mobile phone industry analysts GSMA, external.
The report says there are only 185 million unique mobile subscribers in West Africa - which it works out as 48% of the population.
It goes on to predict that West Africa will get over that halfway point in 2020.
Mobile technologies and services contributed $52bn (£45bn) in economic value in West Africa last year according to the report.
That was equivalent to 8.7% of the region's GDP.
BBC World Service
More than 40 families in northern Ethiopia have just been told that their relatives drowned earlier this month whilst travelling from Djibouti to Yemen.
Officials in Ethiopia's Tigray region say more than 60 youths set off on foot last month to Djibouti in search of work in Saudi Arabia.
On 5 April their boat got into trouble before it had reached Yemen.
Accidents between the Horn of Africa coast and Yemen are common.
In February, 57 Ethiopians died when two boats capsized shortly after setting off from Djibouti.
Last June, 46 Ethiopians drowned during a similar tragedy after leaving the Somali coast.
At the time the UN said over 7,000 migrants were making the perilous journey every month.
Image source, MARTA MOREIRASMarta Moreiras decided to start taking pictures of men carrying babies on their backs when she was looking through her photo archive, which for Senegal goes back to 2008.
"I realised that I had tonnes of pictures of mummies with babies on their back, but I just wondered why I didn't have any of men."
When she began phoning up some of her male Senegalese friends who had babies, most said that they would carry children on their backs if they were at home - but never outside.
"There's a big division here between public spaces and private spaces… and it's very important what others think of you," says Moreiras.
Yet her research and interviews revealed that men do play a significant child-caring role, not least because Dakar is expensive and couples often both have to work.
"That will force them to start dividing tasks.
"But whenever you see a picture of a baby you never see a dad with them or playing with them or taking them to school or washing them," she said.
So she decided to highlight that with a selection of pictures:
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Image source, MARTA MOREIRAS
Image source, MARTA MOREIRASSee more photos of dads carrying babies on their backs on the BBC News website.
Image source, EPAProtesters want the removal of all the governing elite, known as "Le Pouvoir"
The chairman of Algeria's Constitutional Council, Tayib Belaiz, has resigned, state news agency APS said, external.
He would have been in charge of a process to draw up a new constitution, which is one of the key points of the political transition following the resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
His departure followed weeks of protests sparked by Mr Bouteflika's announcement that he would run for a fifth term.
The protesters are still pushing for the former president's coterie of generals, businessmen and ruling party politicians to also be replaced.
At least 174 people have been killed and 758 have been wounded in the battle for control of the Libyan capital Tripoli, AFP news agency quotes the World Health Organization as saying.
Among the dead are 14 civilians and 36 have been wounded, WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told AFP.
Fighting broke out on 4 April when forces under Gen Khalifa Haftar advanced from the east with the aim of taking Tripoli.
On Monday the UN envoy to Libya Ghassan Salamé expressed his growing concern that the battle for the capital is escalating.
Mr Salamé told the BBC his worst fear was that foreign powers may become directly involved with more advanced weaponry.
Read more: Who is military strongman Khalifa Haftar?
Image source, ReutersBuildings in Tripoli have also been damaged by the fighting
Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service
Image source, ReutersSudanese protesters were still at the sit in outside the army HQ on Monday night
Sudanese protesters are continuing to demand that the transitional military council running the country hands over to a civilian-led administration.
On Monday the African Union (AU) called on Sudan's military to transfer power to a civilian led political authority within 15 days or face suspension from the AU.
Last Thursday President Omar al-Bashir was overthrown by the military following months of protests.
The following day the military leader in charge resigned under pressure from the protesters.
The transitional military council has not yet responded to the African Union's call for Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his nine colleagues to return the country to civilian rule within 15 days.
Protesters have demanded a total change of leadership with civilians in charge.
Kenyan workers will contribute 1.5% of their salaries from this month to fund President Uhuru Kenyatta's housing project, local media reports say.
This is part of the head of state's Big Four Agenda that involves providing affordable housing, food security, affordable healthcare and manufacturing.
Privately-owned newspaper the Daily Nation , externalquotes a newspaper advertisement as saying the ministry of housing and the Kenya Revenue Authority introduced the new housing fund levy and that every Kenyan in employment must contribute 1.5% of their basic salary to the National Housing Development Fund.
The paper says employers are also required to send an amount matching employees' deductions to the housing fund.
But some Kenyans on Twitter are unhappy with the government's directive:
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Image source, AFPEgypt's parliament is due to vote on Tuesday on constitutional changes that would lengthen President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's term in office, making it possible for him to stay in power until 2030.
The president would also be given more influence over the judiciary.
He'd be allowed to appointment judges.
Mr Sisi's supporters say he needs more time in office to complete major economic reforms.
But his opponents say the changes would concentrate greater power in the hands of a leader who has relentlessly stifled freedoms, and been criticised for his human rights record.