A young Nigerian activist has told BBC Newsday that she wants President Muhammadu Buhari, 76, to appoint younger people to government.

As President Buhari is inaugurated for a second term, Maryam Laushi from the Not Too Young to Run movement said "a collaboration between the older and younger generation" would help bring the desired change to the west African country that is currently facing insecurity.

The 28-year-old told Newsday that it is not wrong to have an older president, but their mind has to be young and innovative, and he should involve younger people in government processes.

Ms Laushi's movement has been campaigning to reduce the age limit for running for elected office.

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A row has erupted between the Angolan government and the opposition over the planned re-burial of Jonas Savimbi, leader of the Unita rebel movement, whose death 17 years ago brought an end to nearly three decades of civil war.

The government was due to have handed over Savimbi's body to representatives of Unita, which is now an opposition party, so that he may be buried in his hometown on 1 June.

However, the handover did not happen - and both sides are now blaming each other.

Helena Savimbi, one of the rebel leader's daughters, told AFP news agency that the government was not respecting accords. "It's total confusion," she is quoted as saying.

The government has in turn accused Unita of failing to collect the body on Tuesday, as agreed.

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Savimbi was killed in a battle with government forces in 2002, and buried in Angola's eastern Moxico province. His death led to a peace deal, and the eventual inclusion of the rebels in the political process.

As the main opposition party, Unita has been campaigning for Savimbi to receive proper funeral.

The exhumed body was due to have been handed over in Luena, the capital of Moxico province, on Tuesday.

But according to a Unita spokesman, Alcides Sakala Simoes, the government changed the plan "at the last minute", saying the handover would take place in "Kuito and finally Andulo" - both towns in central Angola.

"We don't know where the body is... they are trying to humiliate Unita," he told the AFP news agency. "This will not help the process of national reconstruction."

However, Minister of State Pedro Sebastiao dismissed the claim.

According to the state-run Angola Press agency, he said the body had been taken to Luena as arranged but as Unita had not been there for the handover, it had left at a military barracks for collection.

Read: Angola country profile

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Tomi Oladipo
BBC Africa security correspondent

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Protesters in Sudan have begun the second day of a general strike to pile pressure on the junta for a civilian-led government after President Omar al-Bashir was ousted in April.

Workers in their thousands, took part in demonstrations across the country on Tuesday, affecting the transport and banking sectors, although many businesses remained in operation.

It’s hard to say if this strike will be enough to shake Sudan’s military.

You have both the military and the protest group unwilling to cede any ground and since the strike was announced, the military has been threatening any civil servants who take part with the sack.

It’s also been seeking support from international allies.

Sudan's military ruler, Lt Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has been on a regional tour, visiting the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday, a day after making a similar visit to Egypt.

So it could be on course for an about-turn on the existing agreements.

The protest groups themselves are not unanimous about this strike and their resistance has been weakened as the main trade union and the opposition National Umma party refused to participate.

But it was people power that brought Sudan to this point, so the protesters might not be done yet.

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A high court in Kenya has lifted a ban on betting and gambling adverts appearing on billboards and other outdoor displays, local media reports say.

A judge said the directive by Kenya's betting control agency that banned the adverts from last month was unlawful, says The Star newspaper., external

The moves comes days after Interior Minister Fred Matiang'i warned that about 500,000 young people had been blacklisted for failing to repay loans that they had used for gambling.

Mr Matiang'i also ordered the deportation of foreign nationals engaging in the betting business illegally.

Fresh from the controversy of publishing a map including most of Somalia in Ethiopia, another potential blunder has been spotted on the website of Ethiopia's foreign ministry, external.

In a list of countries where it has foreign missions, the website has named Somaliland and Puntland.

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Somaliland has declared independence from Somalia, but it has not been recognised internationally. A move to recognise its independence would be highly controversial.

Puntland is a semi-autonomous region of Somalia.

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Earlier this week, the foreign ministry apologised for the map.

"We sincerely regret any confusion and misunderstanding this incident might have caused," the statement said.

Somalia was erased from the map, but the self-declared territory of Somaliland was shown.

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An imprisoned Algerian human rights activist who was on hunger strike has died.

Kameleddine Fekhar's lawyer condemned the authorities following his client's death saying he had endured great suffering and neglect behind bars.

Mr Fekhar died after being taken to hospital in a critical condition.

Algeria's League for the Defence of Human Rights has said it wants the "truth about the death" to be investigated, AFP news agency reports. Amnesty International has also called for an investigation.

He had been arrested in March and put in pre-trial detention in the city of Blida.

He started his hunger strike more than 50 days ago.

The return of peace and economic stability has helped improve children's welfare in some of the poorest countries in Africa since 2000, the charity Save the Children has told BBC Newsday after releasing a report, external.

Eric Hazard, its West and Central Africa advocacy director, says the Sierra Leone government, for instance, has been reaching out to the poorest children with "life-saving interventions" such as free access to healthcare for pregnant women and children under five.

Sierra Leone, Rwanda and Ethiopia and Niger are among the countries the report says have made the most significant progress in improving children's welfare.

Central African Republic, Nigeria and Chad are at the bottom in terms of progress, according to Save the Children.

The report suggests that at least 280 million children have a better chance of growing up healthy, educated and safe than at any time in the past two decades.

Listen to the interview with Eric Hazard:

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One of the continent's biggest mobile phone operators, Airtel Africa, is planning to list its shares on the London Stock Exchange in June to raise $1bn (£790m) to boost its services, Reuters reports.

Airtel Africa operates in 14 countries on the continent and also wants to list on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Reuters adds.

Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman of Airtel Africa said: "Since first investing in Africa almost nine years ago, we have well leveraged our expertise in emerging markets to deliver on a clearly-defined strategy to build Airtel Africa into a market leading mobile service provider, increasingly expanding beyond voice into data services and Airtel Money.

Airtel Africa is a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel Ltd.

Mayeni Jones
BBC News, Lagos

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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is set to be sworn in for a second time in the capital, Abuja.

The inauguration comes three months after the former army general was re-elected.

He defeated his closest rival, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, by nearly four million votes.

President Buhari’s team has said that today’s ceremony will be a low-key affair.

Instead of coming for the swearing in, foreign dignitaries have been invited to attend the country’s Democracy Day on 12 June.

According to the ministry of information, Nigeria cannot afford to hold two major celebrations in two weeks.

The inauguration comes as the country is facing sluggish economic growth.

Security was another key election issue. Although the government claims to have defeated Islamist militant group Boko Haram, there are concerns about broader insecurity across the country, due to a rise in kidnappings.

With a growing youthful population keen for change, President Buhari will face immense pressure to deliver on his election promises.

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One of Egypt's most wanted jihadists has arrived back in the country after being handed over by the Libyan military strongman, Khalifa Haftar.

Hisham al-Ashmawy, a former Egyptian special forces officer, was detained in Libya late last year.

He is wanted in connection with several attacks. These include a deadly ambush of police in Egypt's Western desert two years ago and a raid on guards along the border with Libya in 2014.

Egyptian courts had sentenced him, in his absence, to death.

Hisham al-Ashmawy was transferred following a visit by Egypt's intelligence chief to Gen Haftar.

Wednesday's African proverb:

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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.

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And we leave you with this picture of the road heading towards Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo:

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Botswana's former President Ian Khama has told the BBC that his successor, who he used to see "as a brother", is now "drunk on power". He said:

The fallout between Mr Khama and current President Mokgweetsi Masisi has seen the ex-leader leave the governing Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) and call on voters not to back it at the next elections in 2019.

Mr Khama has denied speculation that he is involved in a new political party registered in Botswana this week, telling BBC Focus on Africa:

Mr Khama also took aim at Chinese construction firms wanting to do business in Botswana:

Listen to the interview in full here:

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Malawian opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera has told the BBC that he will continue to challenge the result of the Malawi election in the court.

He was speaking to BBC Focus on Africa in his first interview since his opponent, Peter Mutharika, was announced the winner of the presidential race.

He added that he did not attend Mr Mutharika's swearing in earlier on Tuesday because he had not been invited.

Mr Chakwera, the leader of the Malawi Congress Party, insists there is still a case to be heard in the courts.

"If we do not fight for the Malawians they may never know what actually happened," he said.

He argued that there had been serious irregularities in the counting of the vote.

“It’s an electoral system in which officers of the electoral commission can use Tipp-Ex [correction fluid] on results sheets from all over the country... and yet there are no consequences,” he said.

Mr Mutharika has rejected criticism of the election result, saying international observers had given the vote a clean bill of health.

At least 20 people have died in a traffic accident in Mali, local media reports.

Tweeted pictures of the accident show a large vehicle completely destroyed:

Local media say the accident happened between Kassela, on the outskirts of the capital Bamako, and Zantiguila in Southern Mali.

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Mosques in the self-declared republic of Somaliland have been urged to turn down, or turn off, their loudspeakers for overnight prayers.

The director general of the ministry of religious affairs, Aadan Abdillahi Abdalle, told the BBC Somali service that imams and mosque authorities had been urged to respect their neighbours when they issued the call for the Tahajjud, a non-obligatory prayer which usually takes place after midnight.

People living near mosques have complained of disruption to their sleep from the loudspeakers - a particular concern for the elderly, and for those convalescing from illness.

However, others have argued for the mosques' right to broadcast the call to prayer, and have urged the government not to interfere in a religious matter.

The population of Somaliland is overwhelmingly Muslim. The territory has its own autonomous government but is not internationally recognised as independent.

Back in 2016, the remote community of Funhalouro, Mozambique, bore witness to the roll-out of a new mobile technology.

A container - consisting of four LCD screens, powered by solar panels - arrived at the back of a donkey cart.

It was a mobile roadshow, starting with music to draw a crowd and then switching to a three-minute film on the biggest of the screens.

While the topic - digital literacy - was not the most entertaining, it engaged the audience, many of whom had never seen a screen or moving images before.

What happened next? Find out on the BBC News website.

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Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Nairobi

Malawi's President Peter Mutharika has said it was now time to heal the country following the elections which have been highly divisive.

He was speaking at his swearing-in for a second term in office following his slim win in a controversial election.

A journalist for AFP news agency tweeted some pictures of the event:

The ceremony was short but colourful.

Thousands of Mr Mutharika's supporters sang and danced as he slowly made his way to the podium.

Many of those who thronged the Kamuzu stadium in the city of Blantyre were dressed in the blue and white colours of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party.

And as the president took the oath of office, they shouted in jubilation.

The president was declared winner of the presidential race on Monday with 38.5% of vote.

Leaders of the Somali community in Britain say that a growing number of parents are choosing to send their children to Somalia or elsewhere in East Africa to avoid the scourge of knife crime in London and other British cities.

This year, more than 100 people that have been stabbed to death in the UK, eight of them of Somali origin. Many others have received knife injuries or suffered trauma from having witnessed stabbings.

A spokesman for the Somali community told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that young Somalis are often forced to join gangs, and are more likely to be targeted and groomed by drug dealers.

Read more on the BBC News website.