Sudanese opposition figure Mariam al Mahdi has been out on the streets following the deal agreed overnight and has said that people are celebrating.

"They are in the streets waving the Sudanese flag, chanting that we have brought the civilian government by our might and our determination, that the blood of the martyrs was not wasted," she told the BBC's Newsday programme.

The celebrations were audible in the background while the interview was being recorded.

She said the two sides had agreed to have "an independent, transparent investigation of all the incidents that took place" last month.

A branch of the military - the Rapid Support Forces - have been accused of being responsible for the deaths of protesters in recent weeks. Some have cast doubt on the military's involvement in the transition because of the deadly way the protests were dispersed.

A journalist for the UK's Channel 4 news who has been closely following the protests in Sudan says people are celebrating the news of a deal in the city of Omdurman.

But in a follow-up tweet she warns that as there's an internet blackout so people don't yet know the details of the deal, including the fact that the military will get to choose the leader of the sovereign council first:

Reuters news agency has shared some images of people celebrating in Omdurman:

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Some of the families of those killed when a Boeing 737-Max airliner crashed in Ethiopia in March have told the BBC they believe the plane manufacturer put its desire for profits ahead of the safety of their loved ones.

Other families said they did not understand why no-one had been arrested.

They want charges to be brought if wrongdoing is uncovered.

For its part, Boeing has said it is sorry for the loss of life.

Earlier this week, it said it was giving $100m (£79m) to support the families of the victims of the 737-Max accidents in Ethiopia and Indonesia, in which 364 people died.

Preliminary reports have revealed that the flight control system was at fault in both aircraft.

Read more accounts from those who lost family members.

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The deal in Sudan agreed between the military council and protest leaders has been described as "the first step in building a democratic country" by one of the civilian negotiators.

Siddig Yousif told the BBC's Newsday programme that it marked the "end of military rule".

The military and civilians have agreed on a three-year transition period leading to elections.

"If our alliance could succeed in carrying out all its programme during the three years we hope that at the end of that it will pave the way for a democratic and a peaceful Sudan without any war," Mr Yousif said.

For the first half of the three-year period, a military figure would head up the administration, followed by a civilian for the remainder.

Under the deal, the sovereign body would be made up of 11 representatives. Six of them would be civilians, including five people appointed by the protest movement. The other five would be chosen by the military.

Asked whether the civilian leaders could convince protesters who might be nervous about the presence of the military in government, Mr Yousif said that "it is a difficult task, but we'll try to convince our people that it will be a success".

Sudan's military leaders have reached an agreement with the opposition alliance to share power until elections can be held, mediators say.

The two sides agreed to rotate control of the sovereign council - the top tier of power - for at least three years.

They have also pledged to form an independent technocratic government and to investigate the violence of recent weeks, the African Union (AU) said.

News of the agreement reportedly sparked frenzied street celebrations.

Sudan has been in turmoil since the military ousted President Omar al-Bashir in April.

That followed a popular uprising against Mr Bashir, who seized power in a coup in June 1989.

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A 3,000-year-old Tutankhamun bust that Egypt alleges was stolen has fetched £4.7m ($6m) at auction.

Egypt earlier called on auction house Christie's to cancel the sale of the relic depicting ancient boy-king Tutankhamun.

The country's foreign ministry says that the bust was probably stolen from an Egyptian temple during the 1970s.

Christie's says Egypt has not expressed concern about the bust in the past, despite it being exhibited publicly.

The brown quartzite, 28cm (11in) relic comes from a private collection of ancient art that Christie's last sold for £3m in 2016.

In a statement, Christie's said: "The object is not, and has not been, the subject of an investigation." The auction house said it would never auction an object over which there were legitimate concerns.

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Campaigners have been celebrating the passing of a new law in the US state of California on Wednesday that bans any discrimination against natural hairstyles.

"What we find is there are often negative stereotypes associated with afros, braids, twists and locs," law professor Frances Lewis told BBC Newsday.

She says people of African descent are routinely told formally and informally their hair in its natural state is "unkempt, unattractive, unprofessional and distracting" in workplaces and schools.

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An international pressure group has warned that instability could worsen in Ethiopia if a southern ethnic group carries out its threat to unilaterally declare a new semi-autonomous region later this month.

The International Crisis Group warned that other groups could do the same if the Sidama people were allowed to break away.

The Sidama, who make up about 5% of Ethiopia's population, say they will declare their own region on 18 July unless they are granted a referendum.

Ethiopia's regions are ethnically based. The Sidama do not currently have their own region but are part of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples region, where they are the biggest group.

About three million people have been displaced by ethnic clashes since Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power last year.

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Uganda's Daily Monitor newspaper reports that health workers are "living in fear", external after tents at two Ebola screening points were set on fire on Wednesday.

Malaba-Abiri and Masango - where the arson happened - are reportedly both entry points from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo where the deadly virus has killed more than 1,500 people in the past year.

It spread from DR Congo to Uganda in June when two members of the same family died from the disease.

Health workers have been battling to stop further contagion with a number of precautions, including border screening points and deploying medical monitors to 22 high-risk districts to spot and manage any cases they find.

Mass gatherings, including market days and prayers, have been cancelled in places too.

But fear of the virus and mistrust of officials still pose significant challenges.

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Mozambique's intelligence service has asked the municipal authorities to help it map mosques in the capital, Maputo.

The city's director of religious affairs, Cosme Nyusi, said this was because of what he described as "criminal" and "barbaric" events in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

Hundreds of people have been killed or injured by Islamist militants in northern Mozambique, an area rich in natural gas.

Mr Nyusi said other religious institutions would also be mapped in an effort to control what he said was the exponential rise of religious sects, some of which were illegal.

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A boat with more than 70 migrants on board has capsized off the coast of Tunisia.

The Tunisian Red Crescent said four survivors told coast guards that the boat had sunk off Zarzis. One of them later died in hospital.

It is the latest disaster to hit migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe.

Last month, at least 65 people drowned when their boat set off from Libya and sunk off the Tunisian coast.

Another migrant boat with 65 people on board was finally allowed to dock in Tunisia after spending three weeks stranded at sea because the country's authorities had refused it permission.

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Rwanda has celebrated Liberation Day without a single head of state from a neighbouring country being present at the ceremony, reports the BBC's Great Lakes service.

The day marks the coming to power of Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), overthrowing the regime responsible for the 1994 genocide.

The RPF has remained in power for the past 25 years.

Regional leaders have in the past come to mark the end of the genocide. Uganda - as a key regional backer of the RPF - has a particular interest in the day.

Some are seeing the absence of President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda at Thursday's ceremony as a sign of regional diplomatic tensions.

Six heads of state - from Namibia, Togo, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, Botswana and Zimbabwe - were there, along with the vice-president of Nigeria.

Some opposition parties have objected to the way Liberation Day has in recent years become more prominent in the Rwandan calendar and now overshadows independence day - 1 July. They see it as promoting President Paul Kagame and the RPF at the expense of Rwandan history.

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Lawyers for families who lost loved ones in the Ethiopia Airlines plane crash in March have dismissed the manufacturer's offer of compensation.

Boeing is giving $100m (£80m) to help families affected by the two crashes of the company's 737 Max planes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

The payment, stretching over several years, is independent of lawsuits filed in the wake of the disasters, which together killed 346 people.

Nomi Husain, a Texas-based lawyer representing some of the families of victims of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, said Boeing's payment "doesn't come anywhere close to compensating the families for what has been taken from them".

He told the BBC's transport correspondent Tom Burridge that "some of our clients are not interested in financial compensation at this point" and that Boeing "put profit over safety to get their number-one selling plane to market" - a claim the planemaker strongly denies.

Mr Husain has so far filed seven cases on behalf of families, with some of those lawsuits seeking damages of $276m. He estimated that about 50 lawsuits had so far been filed by victims' families.

"A hundred billion [dollars] let alone a million is not going to bring my wife back. When a person who runs a company does something wrong, he should be sued," says Ethiopian national Eyasu Teshome.

"Life is not something that can be replaced by money. It’s not something on which a price tag can be put. It’s known that it was a defective product," he told BBC Amharic.

"They [Boeing] could have stopped it after there was a problem once. But they gambled on human life, thinking of their profit."

John Quindos Karanja from Kenya lost five of his family in the crash - his wife Ann, their daughter, Carol, and Carol's three children aged seven, four and nine months. Mr Karanja told BBC Africa that he and other victims' families share a private WhatsApp group in which they have pledged not to accept any offer made by the courts of justice.

He also says Boeing has not contacted him directly, but instead he learned of the compensation offer through media reports.

Nigerian officials are saying that two people have died and at least 12 others injured after an explosion at an oil pipeline in Lagos.

The authorities are blaming vandals for starting the fire after they were discovered stealing oil.

Thursday's explosion caused panic in the Ijegun area of the state and firefighters are still trying to put out the flames.

The BBC's Grace Ekpu has been photographing the aftermath.

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The United Nations says it has received reports that Libyan guards shot at migrants as they tried to flee from airstrikes that hit a detention centre near Tripoli on Tuesday.

The UN office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says that at least 53 people, including children, are now confirmed dead from the attack on the Tajoura camp.

It says that there were two airstrikes - one that hit an unoccupied garage and then a second that hit a hangar where there were about 120 refugees and migrants.

It says that guards opened fire as detainees tried to escape after the first impact.

The UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, had said the attack could constitute a war crime.

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Africa editor, BBC World Service

Activists in the Democratic Republic of Congo say security forces have fired on miners who were protesting against being evicted from a copper and cobalt mine run by the British-Swiss multinational Glencore.

Activists say shots were fired at the miners after they marched to the governor's office and pillaged shops in the southern town of Kolwezi.

It is unclear whether live rounds or rubber bullets were used.

The illegal miners were forcibly evicted from the Glencore mine after they missed a deadline set by the government for them to leave.

The decision to evict the men came after more than 40 miners were killed in a landslide last month.

Glencore estimates that about 2,000 illegal miners enter the mine every day. In a statement it said that it hoped that security forces would "exercise restraint and operate in accordance with... international human rights standards".

Activists say evicting them will do nothing to alleviate the poverty that forces people into illegal mining.

The DR Congo produces more than half the world's cobalt, a key component in batteries for mobile phones and other devices.

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A Nigerian man who was serving time in an Indian jail has died in hospital, according to the Times of India.

Kumbha Roderick, 26, was unconscious when he was taken to the prison hospital in the city of Mathura on Wednesday morning and died 35 minutes later, says the facility's chief medical officer.

It is not clear what caused his death. Officials told the Times of India that an autopsy will be undertaken, external. Roderick had reportedly felt uneasy the day before, then vomited.

He had been in the prison for less than a year after his arrest for forging documents, as well as for the "forgery of valuable security" and "forgery for purpose of cheating".