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Across Africa, extreme Christianity is threatening the faith of many.

In 2008 Trevor Immelman won the Masters having led all the way from the first round. Here he takes us through playing the 18th hole on Sunday

Sufiyan Barhoumi spent nearly two decades at the US military prison, accused of a bomb plot.

A resident of conflict-hit Tigray gives a rare insight into life there after 17 months of war.

Hundreds of businesses are destroyed in the main market of Hargeisa in an overnight blaze.

Hundreds of businesses are destroyed in the crowded market area.

Liberian Emmanuel Tuloe decided not to keep the bundle of cash he found at the side of the road.

The World Trade Organisation says ongoing pandemic-related supply chain problems are also hurting growth.

Ghana will be out for 'revenge' when they face Uruguay at the 2022 World Cup, in a repeat of the 2010 quarter-final.

That's all for now from the BBC Africa Live team for now. There will be an automated news feed here until we're back on Monday morning.

You can also keep up to date on the BBC News website, or by listening to the Africa Today podcast.

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And we leave you with this photo from a Cairo market of Egyptian lanterns usually bought ahead of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which begins this weekend. It is our favourite from this week's gallery of top shots from the continent.

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DJ Edu
Presenter of This Is Africa on BBC World Service

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Benjamin Menelik George, AKA Drizilik, is a rapper, singer and songwriter from Sierra Leone whose mission is to inspire his country forward to better times.

The civil war and the Ebola virus had a profound effect on the people there, but he believes the future is bright.

"So much has affected us as a nation, and I don't like to dwell on that. But that moved me to create music because I wanted to see a change."

Drizilik blends the genres of hip-hop, Afrobeats and indigenous bubu music.

He grew up in the capital, Freetown, listening to music from Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria and the US.

He rose to fame in Sierra Leone in 2015 after the release of his single Pop Collar. In 2018, he was named one of the 50 most-influential young Sierra Leoneans and he headlined the Freetown Music Festival the following year.

In 2019 he dropped his first album Shukubly, which means family or community.

"I consider myself a community artist because I draw all my inspiration from the community. So my music is about the Shukubly, it's from the Shukubly and it's for the Shukubly."

His biggest hit is his latest release entitled Exodus.

"It talks about the movement of God's people. What inspired this song is our situation as a nation.

"I feel like it's time for us as a people to move past the old ways of thinking and doing things.

"I feel like our community has been stuck in one place for a very long time. The future holds so much for us and I am proof of that."

He started making music just to have fun with his friends. But then he got to a point where he felt as though he could make a change and have an impact on people.

"I've played football, I've tried to draw, but music was never part of the plan. Sometimes I feel like if I had started earlier I would have gone really far.

"But it's no regrets because this is what is in front of me right now."

He's also developed a keen interest in fashion and has been working on some merchandise that he calls the Shukubly Ashobi. Ashobi is a Yoruba and Krio word that means uniform.

Drizilik now feels his optimistic message can impact a larger audience beyond the borders of Sierra Leone.

"I feel my responsibility is to do as much as I can and make music not just for fun, but music that can change people's lives."

You can hear more from Drizilik, as well as Burkina Faso's fastest rising female star Tanya, this weekend on This Is Africa on BBC World Service radio, external and partner stations across Africa.

Kalkidan Yibeltal
BBC News, Addis Ababa

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Thirteen lorries full of food and other supplies have arrived safely in the capital of Ethiopia’s war-torn region of Tigray, the first aid to arrive in Mekelle since December, the UN says.

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said that more trucks and fuel would follow on Saturday morning - a week after a humanitarian truce was agreed between the government and Tigrayan forces.

This week roads to Tigray from the neighbouring region of Afar had remained closed despite the ceasefire - with the warring parties trading accusations over who was to blame.

“Good progress, much more needed - we need daily convoys flowing in safely to meet the needs of five million people,” the WFP tweeted, external.

“We must keep up this momentum and need continued assurances from all authorities to keep the supplies flowing safely through the Afar corridor at scale,” it added.

Earlier a senior official of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the group that has been at war with the government for 17 months, welcomed the move as "a step in the right direction" but said there should be "a system in place to ensure unfettered humanitarian access for the needy".

The government has said it is committed to helping the safe passage of aid.

The conflict has left hundreds of thousands of people on the brink of famine, according to the UN.

Wycliffe Muia
BBC Monitoring

It's the time of year for people to play practical jokes and today was no different.

Kenya’s leading Daily Nation newspaper published a false report, external claiming that Egypt and Senegal will have a rematch for the World Cup qualifiers. The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) has appealed to Fifa over what they termed mistreatment in Senegal. Fifa is yet to rule on the appeal. The paper later disclosed that the report was an April Fool's Day story.

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Another Kenyan newspaper, The Star, published a fake report claiming that there will free land and interest-free loans will be given to people who take booster Covid-19 shots.

“Thousands of Kenyans who take the booster Covid-19 vaccine beginning 1 April will each win a quarter acre of prime land in Mavoko near Nairobi,” the paper falsely reported.

While Burkina Faso’s Radio Omega claimed that ousted President Roch Kaboré had been released from detention by the military authorities who overthrew him in January.

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A prominent website in Burkina Faso carried the story without highlighting that it was a fake report.

In South Africa, the former leader of the country's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), made a dramatic announcement on a local radio station on Friday morning - that he had joined the governing African National Congress (ANC).

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Mmusi Maimane also released a statement on Facebook, falsely stating he would be running to become the party's deputy president in December 2022. He joked that President Cyril Ramaphosa had welcomed his move, saying that Mr Maimane was "the best hope that South Africa has".

Some media publications fell for it but the politician quickly denied the reports and said that people shouldn’t “panic”.

Muted April Fools’ Day

However, not everyone was playing game.

An Angolan journalist said that it had been hard to mark this year’s April Fool's Day because of the proliferation of "fake news".

In an opinion piece on the state-run Jornal de Angola news website, Filomeno Jorge Manaças said it was “uncomfortable” to lie on April Fool's Day, because “everyday reality is already full of lies”.

South Africa’s EyeWitness News website said this year's April Fool's Day was “muted” after South Africans “resisted” online pranks. “A number of South Africans have said that with current circumstances facing the average South African, there wasn't much to laugh about,” the website said.

Jose Tembe
BBC News, Maputo

Nearly half of all children in Mozambique’s northern-most province of Niassa suffer from malnutrition, according to a health official.

The province’s chief physician, Narciso Rondinho, says 43% of the children are affected, despite the area being rich in agricultural production.

He pointed out that childhood tuberculosis, HIV/Aids and waterborne disease were among the main causes of an increase in malnutrition cases.

He urged communities to prioritise the health of their children through their diet with freshly grown food.

Ishaq Khalid
BBC News, Abuja

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Boko Haram militants may have worked in partnership with Nigeria’s notorious kidnapping gangs to attack a busy passenger train earlier this week, Kaduna state’s governor has said.

At least eight passengers were killed and several others were abducted for ransom in the audacious attack on the high-speed rail link between the capital, Abuja, and the northern city of Kaduna on Monday.

The various factions of the Islamist Boko Haram group mainly operate in the north-east of the country and the kidnapping gangs in the north-west.

But Nasir el-Rufai, the governor of Kaduna state, said the authorities had received intelligence reports that the attack would be carried out with the Islamist insurgents teaming up with the kidnappers.

They blew up the rail track using guns and explosive devices.

The governor said an operation was under way to rescue those who were abducted but he ruled out any payment of ransoms.

The army has been battling the Islamist insurgency in the north-east for 13 years - and in the last few years has failed to stop the sophisticated criminal networks that run huge money-making kidnapping operations.

Kalkidan Yibeltal
BBC News, Addis Ababa

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The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) says its food trucks have entered rebel-held areas in Ethiopia’s war-torn region of Tigray for the first time since December.

A humanitarian truce was agreed between the government and Tigrayan forces last week, but roads had remained closed with the warring parties trading accusations over who was to blame.

The aid trucks carrying 500 tonnes of food and other supplies have crossed into areas controlled by Tigrayan forces and are expected to arrive in the regional capital Mekelle.

A senior official of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the group at war with the government for 17 months, has called the move "a step in the right direction".

The government - in an earlier statement - had said that it was committed to facilitate the safe passage of aid.

The food aid is expected to be distributed to families left on the brink of famine by the civil war. But with six million people in Tigray in need of assistance and hundreds of thousands facing starvation, far more aid is required.

Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Johannesburg

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South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has told an inquiry that riots and looting in two major provinces last July were a deliberate attempt to derail the economy.

At least 350 people died in the violence in little over a week in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng after former President Jacob Zuma was jailed for contempt of court.

Mr Zuma was sentenced over his refusal to testify before a corruption commission. His supporters were demanding his release.

President Ramaphosa told the inquiry by the South African Human Rights Commission that although the initial protests were presented as political grievance, they were in fact an attempt to undermine the country’s democracy.

The deadliest unrest since the end of apartheid cost the economy $3.3bn (£2.5bn).

Months later, no major arrests have been made. Mr Ramaphosa said investigations to find the suspected masterminds were still continuing.

Shingai Nyoka
BBC News

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Angola's government has suspended the salaries of more than 5,000 doctors, describing their strike action as illegal.

The National Union of Angola Medical Doctors began an indefinite nationwide strike last week to press for better wages and working conditions.

The stoppage has paralysed public health services, although some medics are providing emergency services.

Doctors say that in addition to poor salaries, health facilities are woefully under-equipped with frequent shortages of supplies and medicines.

The strike is the second in four months. In December, medics took industrial action over the death of 20 children in a hospital in the capital, Luanda.

Doctors allege they died because of shortages of medicine and medical equipment.

Recent negotiations with the government broke down after the doctors rejected a 6% pay increase.

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The leader of Tunisia’s main opposition Ennahda party, Rached Ghannouchi, has been summoned for questioning by anti-terrorism police.

Mr Ghannouchi is also the speaker of parliament, which was controversially dissolved this week by President Kais Saïed - a move denounced by the opposition leader.

On Thursday, Tunisia's anti-terrorism unit summoned more than 30 politicians who had attended an online parliamentary session, in defiance of the president.

The session had been the first since President Saïed suspended the chamber eight months ago and seized wide-ranging powers.