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A selection of the best photos from across the African continent this week.

The Gambia score an injury-time winner against Tunisia to consigns the north Africans to a last 16 tie against Nigeria at the Nations Cup

Ibrahima Kone keeps up his scoring run as Mali comfortably beat Mauritania 2-0 to top Group F at the Africa Cup of Nations.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says hostilities must end in Ethiopia so aid can be distributed effectively in the country.

Equatorial Guinea reach the last 16 at the Africa Cup of Nations after beating Sierra Leone - a result which eliminates the Leone Stars.

Defending champions Algeria crash out of the Africa Cup of Nations as they lose their final group match 3-1 against Ivory Coast.

That's all for now from the BBC Africa Live team until Friday morning.

There will be an automated news feed until then which will have the results from the Africa Cup of Nations. You can also keep up with events on our website or listen to the Africa Today podcast.

Here's a reminder of Thursday's wise words:

We leave you with a photo of people protesting in Sudan's capital Khartoum against the coup which took place in October.

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Twins account for only 1% of elephant births, with the last known birth recorded in 2006.

Images show destroyed buildings and scattered debris as residents call for help near the town of Bogoso.

Police in Ghana have issued an "emergency public notice", saying there had been a huge explosion in the Western Region.

Images posted on social media show mutilated bodies and residents calling for help, but police did not give further details in their alert, except to say that they had "activated a full emergency recovery exercise" and everyone should remain calm.

Ghana's state-owned Daily Graphic news site reports that the tyre of a vehicle transporting explosives to a mining site had burst.

The explosives then apparently detonated, with reports suggesting that many people had been killed and injured in the blast in Appiatse, between Bogoso and Bawdie.

Jonathan Paye-Layleh
BBC News, Monrovia

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Liberia's President George Weah has declared three days of mourning following the death of 29 people in a stampede during a church service held on a football field in the capital, Monrovia.

Mr Weah visited the site of the stampede, and said regulations should be put in place to ensure services, known locally as crusades, were held in a safe environment.

Hundreds of people were at the gathering organised by an influential pastor known as Apostle Abraham Kromah when the stampede occurred on Wednesday night in Monrovia's New Kru Town suburb.

Police are questioning the pastor in an attempt to find out what exactly happened.

The Red Cross has erected tents in the church grounds for family members to go with photos to help identify the dead.

At least 29 people, including 11 children, die when robbers attack an open-air service, causing panic.

Namibia's leading daily newspaper has a heart-breaking interview with a mother who saw a crocodile grab her five-year-old daughter, and disappear with the little girl into the famous Okavango River.

Eveline Mukuve, 33, told The Namibian that she put up a fight to free her child from the crocodile's jaws, but the reptile "took away my daughter".

Ms Mukuve had gone to the river to fetch water, and her daughter, Juliana Urungi, followed her and took off her clothes to swim.

"When I wanted to go back for her, the level of water was already up to her knees,” she said.

The crocodile then attacked the girl.

"I was about to cry, but I couldn't cry. It was at this point that I dived into the water to tussle with the crocodile, external," Ms Mukuve told the newspaper.

"I grabbed it by its tail but it scratched me with its tail and took away my daughter. It was a black and white big crocodile,” she added.

The newspaper has tweeted a photo of Ms Mukuve on the banks of the river where she lost her daughter.

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

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Dozens of Sudanese judges and prosecutors have condemned the killing of more than 70 protesters since October's coup and have called for a criminal investigation.

Frequent protests have been met with live gunfire and tear gas and thousands are once again out on the streets of the capital Khartoum.

A statement from 55 judges to the head of the judiciary said military leaders had carried out heinous violations against defenceless protesters.

The Sudanese police say dozens of officers have also been injured. Separately, more than 100 prosecutors have said they are stopping work in protest at the violations by security forces.

Sudan's acting information minister said an investigation would be carried out into the deaths of seven protesters on Monday.

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A panel of three judges has dismissed an application by same-sex couples in Namibia for their foreign spouses to live and work in the country.

The judges of the High Court ruled that they were bund by a 20-year ruling of the more senior Supreme Court that the relationships of same-sex couples were not recognised by Namibian law, rights activist Omar van Reenen told the BBC's Shingai Nyoka.

The case centred on two couples: Daniel Digashu and Johan Potgieter and a second couple, Anette Seiler-Lilles and Anita Seiler-Lilles.

Mr Digashu, a South African, had an application for a work permit denied, while German-born Anita Seiler-Lilles failed in a bid to get permanent residency because of their same-sex marital status, Reuters news agency reports.

Both couples secured their legal partnerships outside Namibia, it says.

Their legal team is expected to appeal against the ruling.

The case is one of several recent legal challenges to Namibian laws which human rights groups say are outdated and discriminatory.

Last year a Namibian high court granted citizenship to a gay couple's two-year-old son born via surrogacy.

Despite having Mohamed Salah at his disposal, Egypt coach Carlos Queiroz says his side need to improve their finishing in front of goal.

BBC World Service

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Gunmen have attacked a school in north-west Cameroon, abducting five teachers and several students.

Eyewitnesses told the BBC that one student was wounded in the head during Wednesday's attack on the high school in a village in Menchum Division.

Some students say the attackers told them never to set foot in the school again.

A local official said the army had been deployed to find the abducted students and teachers.

Separatist fighters have tried to force schools to close in the country's two English-speaking regions.

The UN says more than 800,000 children are out of school due to the separatist conflict.

Read more: Playing football in the shadow of Cameroon's rebellion

Robert Misigaro
BBC Great Lakes service

Image source, Burundi's State House

Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye has demonstrated his skills as a drummer by playing the country's famous royal drums during a visit to a drum sanctuary on the outskirts of the capital Gitega.

Burundi's State House tweeted that the president had been an avid drummer from a young age, and he could not resist putting on the traditional drummers' outfit, and joining in the singing, dancing and playing of drums at the Gishora sanctuary, which is located on a hilltop.

Image source, Burundi's State House

State House added that President Ndayishimiye was officially ending the government’s holiday period and took an opportunity to visit the sanctuary in Gishora.

In Burundi, a drum is called an ingoma, which also means kingdom.

Traditionally, drums were the symbol of power and were only played for the king. They therefore became known as royal drums. There were other small drums, but royal drums were regarded as sacred and played in a particular way on special occasions only.

UN cultural agency Unesco has listed the "ritual dance of the royal drum" as an "intangible cultural heritage of humanity".

"The entire population of Burundi recognizes it as a fundamental part of its heritage and identity," Unesco says.

"The ritual drumming is performed during national or local feasts and to welcome important visitors, and is said to awaken the spirits of the ancestors and drive out evil spirits," it adds.

Image source, Burundi's State House

A Kenyan DJ working with a local media house has died after collapsing at his workplace in the capital Nairobi.

Police are investigating the cause of his death after colleagues told local media that he deactivated his social media accounts, texted family and friends and left a note.

DJ Lithium was taken to a hospital in the city by colleagues but doctors said he died on arrival.

Kenyans online have been eulogising him and sending condolences to his family:

His employer Capital FM eulogised him as talented and passionate.

He had been working at the radio station for the last eight years.