A ban imposed by Fifa on the former Confederation of African Football president Issa Hayatou is overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Amira Osman is one of dozens believed to have been arrested by Sudan's feared secret police.

The five-year-old boy, Rayan, has been stuck at the bottom of a 32m deep well since Tuesday.

That's all for now from the BBC Africa Live team this week until Monday morning, when we'll be back at bbc.com/africalive.

There will be an automated news feed until then - where you can get the latest on Africa Cup of Nations. On Saturday, the hosts Cameroon take on Burkina Faso for third place - and Sunday sees Egypt and Senegal battle it out for the crown.

You can also get the latest news from our website or listen to the Africa Today podcast.

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

Click here to send us your African proverbs.

And we leave you with this shot of Somali boys basking on Lido beach in Mogadishu, one of our favourites from this week's gallery of the best photographs from around the continent:

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With the Winter Olympics under way following the opening ceremony in China’s capital, Beijing, one of our fictional presidents is making plans.

Olushambles wants to hold the games in Africa, but Kibarkingmad is dubious.

Listen to the latest from the veteran leaders:

Stanley Kwenda
BBC Focus on Africa radio

Egyptian and Senegalese footballers will be battling for the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) crown this weekend, kicking around a ball that has a special Cameroonian design.

The hosts named the official tournament ball "toghu", after a popular traditional outfit hailing from Cameroon’s North-West region.

The material was originally worn by royalty and features symbols that represent the culture and history of the people.

"This design is called tiger teeth,” Yaoundé fabric businessman Fule Valentine told the BBC - who is behind the ball’s look.

"It is the main design that was used by queens and kings. It’s an animal that when it’s around no other animal comes around - that is why they highlighted it on the official match ball of the Africa Cup of Nations."

Mr Valentine said he first came up with it for the Olympics. His creation has since been a feature of official Cameroonian delegations at recent major sporting events - and that's why the Afcon organisers wanted it too.

Image source, AFP

Given the conflict that has been raging in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions, some have wondered if the "toghu" has been bringing people together, given its origins in the North-West, one of the provinces affected by the separatist rebellion.

Sadly for Cameroonians, the country’s football team did not make the final - but they will be playing Burkina Faso on Saturday for third place - kicking around a ball which Mr Valetine hopes will become a symbol of national integration.

DJ Edu
Presenter of This Is Africa on BBC World Service

Image source, Ariel Wayz

Ariel Wayz is an unusual young woman, and a courageous and determined one. The musician has faced a lot of criticism for how she looks.

Her response may be surprising: she decided to pose for the cover of her new EP Love and Lust topless except for a couple of strategically placed seashells.

This is a woman more comfortable in baggy trousers and a denim jacket, but she says she wanted to face her critics head on - and not give in to fear or a feeling that she should hide her body or be ashamed of herself:

Wayz has achieved a lot of success since she went solo in 2020, despite her willingness to challenge her fans.

She is a graduate of Rwanda’s Nyundo School of Art and Music, set up in 2014 and funded by the government.

Her musical career began as lead singer of the Symphony Band, a group of fellow Nyundo graduates that toured Rwanda mainly playing cover versions of popular songs.

She left the band because she wanted to push herself creatively, making her own songs and exploring a wide range of musical genres:

Luckily the risk paid off financially as well as artistically:

And the risk-taking continues. Wayz’s latest video is brave - especially in the African context.

To the soundtrack of her love song 10 Days, she acts out a romantic relationship with another woman:

My guess is that Ariel Wayz’s musical talent will prevail, and that many fans will continue to embrace her.

You can hear my conversation with Ariel Wayz on This is Africa this Saturday, on BBC World Service radio and partner stations across Africa.

The European Union says it has imposed travel bans and asset freezes on five Malian officials, including senior military commanders who carried out last year's coup - who are part of junta leader Assimi Goïta's inner circle.

The announcement was made after the military reneged on a promise to hold elections this month, delaying them instead by four years.

The five are:

• Choguel Kokalla Maïga, the transitional prime minister
• Col Malick Diaw, president of the transitional council
• Col Ismaël Wagué, reconciliation minister - and the man who announced the August 2020 coup
• Adama Ben Diarra, also known as "Ben le Cerveau" meaning "Ben the Brain" - a vocal supporter of Russia’s support to Mali
• Ibrahim Ikassa Maïga, a civilian member of the transitional government.

Relations between the EU and Mali have plummeted, partly because of the country's second coup since 2020 and Mali's decision to employ a Russian security contractors.

European countries including France are considering withdrawing troops serving in a unit which fights Islamist militants.

Last month, the regional bloc Ecowas imposed sanctions on Mali, which include the freezing of the country's assets in member nations' commercial banks and the suspension of non-essential financial transactions.

The murder of Moise Kabagambe, a Congolese migrant, in Brazil was captured on video and caused public outrage.

Jonathan Paye-Layleh
BBC News, Monrovia

Image source, Press Union of Liberia

An app has been launched for journalists to report cases of press harassment in Liberia, where media freedoms are under pressure.

The Press Union of Liberia has complained in recent times of a wave of assaults and attacks on reporters. Some have had their equipment seized.

Bad roads and communication difficulties mean that journalists who are assaulted in rural places find it takes time to inform the union.

Two years ago, the government promised to investigate a list of cases involving violence towards the media, but has yet to do so.

Alfred Lasteck
BBC News, Dar es Salaam

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The police force in Tanzania has been placed under investigation over suspected involvement in the suspicious deaths of 22 people since the beginning of the year.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan said no police officer should be involved in the probe, which she ordered be handled by the home affairs ministry.

She said she was alarmed by the reports of police misconduct.

In late January, seven police officers were charged with the beating to death of 25-year-old businessman Mussa Hamisi.

The officers, who have not yet been asked to plead in the case and are in remand custody, are accused of stealing $57,000 (£42,000) from the victim during a search.

When he protested and demanded his money back, they are alleged to have attacked him.

Ivory Coast and South Africa will play World Cup holders France in friendlies in March.

Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Johannesburg

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A 49-year-old man accused of setting South Africa’s parliament on fire has been denied bail by a court in Cape Town.

Police have said they have a video confession from Zandile Christmas Mafe - evidence they say will be presented in court when the trial begins.

But Mr Mafe has pleaded not guilty and intends to sue the state for wrongful arrest, his lawyers say.

It has been a little over a month since a portion of the National Assembly went up in flames in a suspected arson attack.

Mr Mafe, who was arrested shortly afterwards, is facing a string of charges, including one of terrorism - all of which he denies.

The motive for the attack is unknown.

It may be some time before the trial begins and unless Mr Mafe wins an appeal to overturn the bail decision, he will remain in detention.

Magistrate Michelle Adams said Mr Mafe, who is said to have regularly slept on the streets of Cape Town, might be a flight risk.

She added that his defence team had failed to show that there were exceptional circumstances for Mr Mafe to be granted bail.

Earlier, state prosecutors raised questions about Mr Mafe’s mental health after a doctor told them he had paranoid schizophrenia - a diagnosis that is yet to be confirmed by an independent doctor.

His own legal team have rubbished the suggestion.

The case will resume next Friday for an application to appeal against the bail decision.

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• South Africa's parliament fire: How it offers a break from the past

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

Nigerian officials say a fire that broke out following an explosion on an oil vessel on Thursday has been extinguished.

However it is still not clear how much oil has spilt into the sea from the Trinity Spirit or whether the 10 crew members are safe.

The fact that the vessel has a storage capacity of two million barrels raised fears of a major ecological disaster.

Environment Minister Sharon Ikeazor has described the incident in the Niger Delta as worrying and said oil companies were intervening to help protect the vulnerable ecosystem.

The company that owns the vessel has been in financial trouble and is currently in receivership.

People tweeted photos of the scene on Thursday:

Mandy Blackman says the key to treating patients is the "care that you give" wherever you are.

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

The UN says it is sending humanitarian aid to more than 20,000 Sudanese and South Sudanese refugees who have been affected by clashes between armed groups and federal forces in the north-west of Ethiopia.

The UN refugee agency says after fighting broke out in the Benishangul-Gumuz region last month, two refugee camps were looted and torched.

With the area still dangerous, 22,000 refugees made their way over long distances to three different sites where the UN is sending assistance.

Violence in Ethiopia's Benishangul-Gumuz region predates the ongoing war in the Tigray region which began 15 months ago.

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

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The United Nations is warning that an incoming cyclone could affect nearly 600,000 people in Madagascar.

Cyclone Batsirai is expected to make landfall on Madagascar's east coast on Saturday after passing through Mauritius.

Early last week Tropical Storm Ana left a trail of destruction and killed dozens of people in Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique.

Officials in the Malagasy capital, Antananarivo, are warning that tens of thousands of people may be displaced because of new landslides and flooding as a result of the latest cyclone.

It is likely to have an impact even before it hits Madagascar, with waves at sea expected to reach up to 15m (49ft).

Experts say extreme weather events like cyclones have become more frequent and intense in southern Africa as a result of climate change.

Aboubakar Famau
BBC News, Dodoma

Tanzania’s Education Minister Adolf Mkenda says the government’s decision to allow students to continue with their education after giving birth does not mean they can bring their babies into class.

His comments come after the BBC featured a teenage mother in Mbeya region being allowed to bring her four month old into school this week.

Esnath Gideon, 19, was pictured with her daughter on her lap at a desk. She told the BBC she had no choice as there was no-one to take care of her child at home.

But Prof Mkenda said having babies in the classroom would disturb other students.

Schoolgirls in Tanzania who became pregnant used to be expelled from school and not allowed back. This 19-year-old directive was revoked last December - and has led to several teenage mothers returning to finish their education.

Some of them have enrolled under a programme known as Alternative Education Pathway, which is said to be more flexible.

A solution to Ms Gideon's problem has been proposed to the government as part of recommendations by education experts looking into the return of teenage mothers into education.

They suggest setting up baby day care centres for those unable to find alternative help, an education educator told the BBC.

Watch the BBC's report with Esnath Gideon:

Samba Cyuzuzo
BBC Great Lakes

Shops and markets are closed amid a three-day shutdown in the city of Bunia in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo to protest over this week’s massacre at a camp housing those who've had to flee their homes because of inter-ethnic conflict.

More than 50 people were killed, many by machetes, in an attack on Plaine Savo camp blamed on the militia group Codeco.

Its fighters are mainly drawn from the Lendu farming community, which has been at loggerheads with the province’s Hema cattle herders.

Apart from a few pharmacies and health services, Bunia - home to about one million people - is like a dead city.

“We will endure this closure up to Saturday to mourn and sympathise with survivors of Savo massacre, and we want to show our concern,” a resident told BBC Great Lakes.

A civil society activist said the shutdown was organised because people are angry and feel very vulnerable.

“The government is not doing enough to protect us,” Dieudonné Lossa told the BBC.

“We are being killed every day, in a place where there are the UN forces deployed.”

He added that the Congolese and Ugandan armies were also working in partnership in the region, yet people in Ituri province - where rebel groups proliferate - felt like they were living in a “state of siege”.

On Friday morning, just outside the Plaine Savo camp - where an estimated 20,000 people live - a funeral service was held, with long row of coffins in front of the mourners.

"This is the fifth deadly attack on a displaced people’s camp. We have buried a lot, we are now tired of this war," Mr Lossa said.

Image source, AFP

The UN refugee agency says around 230,000 people who've fled violence currently live in about 60 camps in Ituri - many set up near UN peacekeeping bases.

In a statement, the government said it wanted to assure people of its "determination to restore peace" to the region.

Four Nigerian men have been charged with the murder a 20-year-old woman in a suspected ritual killing case that has shocked the country.

But the men, aged between 18 and 20, were not asked to enter a plea during their first court appearance on Thursday in south-western Ogun state, newspapers report.

They were arrested last Saturday for allegedly killing Sofiat Kehinde and burning her corpse in a pot.

Police say she had been dating one of them at the time of her murder in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Magistrate I O Abudu ordered that the young men be remanded in prison for two months until their next appearance in court.

Police prosecutor Lawrence Balogun told the court that the defendants had murdered Ms Kehinde with plans to use her body parts in some kind of money-making juju.