Turnout is believed to have been low - with fewer than one-third of voters casting a ballot.

Jose Tembe
BBC News, Maputo

A father who allegedly wanted to sell his three albino children was arrested in Mozambique while negotiating over the price, police have said.

The man, 39, and his brother, 34, were arrested in the western Tete province. They have denied the accusation, according to police.

Albino people have been killed in the country for their body parts, which are used for ritual purposes.

Police spokesman Feliciano da Câmara said two supposed buyers were also in police custody.

He said the three children, aged between nine and 16, were taken from their home and held in captivity while negotiations over their price were ongoing.

"The sale was to be made for over $39,100 (£32,400),” the police spokesman said.

“We took steps and located the two individuals in Angónia who confirmed plans for the deal," he added.

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The electoral commission in Tunisia says initial results from Monday's referendum show that 94.6% voted in favour of constitutional changes that grant more power to President Kais Saied.

Official turnout was low, given by the commission as 28%.

Opposition parties had boycotted a ballot that they had said would return Tunisia to autocracy.

The opposition groups said the results were not legitimate.

Mr Saied's political rivals accused the country's electoral board of "fraud" and said they would not recognise the newly approved constitution - which is expected to come into force when the final poll results are published.

There was no immediate reaction from President Saied or from the country's Electoral Commission to the accusations.

Read more:

• Tunisia referendum: Voters give leader sweeping new powers

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The UN secretary general's office has said any attacks on peacekeepers may constitute a war crime after two UN bases were assaulted in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

A spokesman said António Guterres had called on the Congolese authorities to investigate the incidents, in which three UN personnel and a dozen locals were killed.

The peacekeeping mission - Monusco - blamed the violence and looting of UN property on criminals pretending to be protesters.

It said they had seized weapons from Congolese police and opened fire.

There's widespread anger in Congo at Monusco's failure to halt decades of violence by armed groups operating in the mineral-rich east.

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Demonstrations turn violent after protesters storm a UN headquarters in Goma.

Civilians and UN peacekeepers are killed, with the UN saying some criminals wanted to seize its base.

That's all for now from the BBC Africa Live team, but we'll be back on Wednesday morning, Nairobi time.

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And we leave with this photo of South African footballer Hildah Magaia grinning with her medal at OR Tambo airport in Johannesburg on Tuesday after Banyana Banyana's arrival home after winning the Women's Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) over the weekend in Morocco:

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The head of UNAids has just tweeted that she was nearly refused permission to board a flight in Switzerland.

Winnie Byanyima, from Uganda, said her documents were scrutinised repeatedly and calls made to check her status.

She said she was on her way to a world Aids conference about to take place in Canada and was not the only person to face such scrutiny, which she said was racist.

"Hundreds of people in the South have been denied visas & won’t attend #UNAIDS2022, external Unjust, racist!" her tweet said.

Nichola Mandil
BBC News, Juba

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US-South Sudanese basketball star Wenyen Gabriel, who plays for NBA team Los Angeles Lakers, says he wants to tap into South Sudan’s basket-balling potential as the country has the “tallest and the most resilient people in Africa”.

The 25 year old, who was born in Khartoum - Sudan’s capital - in 1997 during the civil war before South Sudan won its independence, was taken to Egypt at the age of five months and later his family travelled to the US where he has spent most of his life.

“It is my very first time returning home - and [it’s amazing] such a reception,” he said about his trip to South Sudan for a three-day training camp for young basketballers.

“Basketball has changed my life and I truly believe it is more than a game and I am proud to bring it here and see how it’s going to inspire the kids of our country,” he told reporters.

“I am here to try to improve basketball in this country - to tap into the potential we have - the tallest people and the most resilient people in Africa."

The 6ft 9in (2.06m) sportsman arrived in South Sudan's capital, Juba, late last week for the camp that ended on Monday night.

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“For these kids to see that someone like them has made it to the next level, I think it’s important for them to believe that they can make it as well,” he said.

Gabriel rose to prominence on the court when he played for the Sacramento Kings and has played for several other National Basketball Association teams.

Earlier this year, he signed a two-year deal with the Lakers.

Richard Hamilton
BBC World Service Newsroom

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The authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo say at least 15 people have been killed in demonstrations against United Nations peacekeepers in the east of the country.

Police said seven protesters and three UN peacekeepers died in the city of Butembo in North Kivu province.

Earlier the government said at least five people were killed in the provincial capital Goma - some 200km (125 miles) further south.

The demonstrators are demanding the departure of the peacekeeping force (Monusco), which they say has failed to restore peace in the region, amid a resurgence of the M23 rebel movement.

Alan Kasujja
BBC Africa Daily podcast, State House, Kampala

As he stood on stage alongside Russia’s foreign minister, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni said his country would continue to do business with Russia, despite pressure from Western allies to take a stance against Moscow over the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

Sat under a white tent in the gardens of State House, Sergei Lavrov and President Museveni emphasised their long history of mutual support. Both reflected on the part the USSR had played during the independence struggle in Africa. Moscow established its embassy in Uganda on 13 October 1962 - just four days after the country had won its independence.

Mr Lavrov is currently on a charm offensive tour of Africa, visiting Egypt, Congo-Brazzaville, Uganda and Ethiopia.

The event was carefully stage-managed, with journalists required to submit their questions in advance.

But President Museveni was bullish: in reply to one Russian journalist about whether he had felt any pressure not to accommodate Mr Lavrov or have photos taken with him, he said people would be “stupid” if they were to ask him not to have his picture with whoever he wishes.

I also got a similar picture from a Ugandan official who spoke to me at the event. He said Uganda’s leaders and those of countries like Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Zambia - the so-called frontline states in the fight against apartheid - could never turn against Moscow because of the part the USSR had played in their fight for liberation.

Mr Museveni reminded journalists that during the Cold War he was often asked whether Uganda was pro-West or pro-East, but he always answered: “We were pro-ourselves.”

In an interview for BBC Africa Daily, Foreign Minister Jeje Odongo was more conciliatory though, saying that Uganda was soon to assume the chairmanship of the Non-Aligned Movement forum of 120 developing countries originally set up to stop their members becoming pawns in Cold War power games.

As such the East African nation had a responsibility to ensure that all members of the international community were engaged in dialogue, he said.

Gen Odongo has now been invited to visit Moscow in October in a bid to further consolidate the relationship between the two nations.

It will mark 60 years since Moscow first recognised Uganda as an independent state.

A recent BBC Africa Eye investigation has tracked down the leaders of ultra-violent gangs in Nigeria’s north-western state of Zamfara, which have become notorious for raiding villages, abducting schoolchildren and killing anyone who resists them.

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Tala Safwan, who has millions of followers, denies that her clip had lesbian undertones.

Hanna Temauri
BBC News

Russian Foreign Minster Sergei Lavrov has arrived in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa - which is also seat of the African Union headquarters - on the last leg of his African tour.

The foreign ministry tweeted photos of his welcome:

His visit aims to strengthen Moscow's ties with the continent, where many countries have been reluctant to take sides and condemn Russia over the invasion of Ukraine.

Mr Lavrov is expected to meet senior government officials, members of the diplomatic community and officials from the African Union Commission.

Preparations for the upcoming Africa-Russia Summit scheduled to take place in Addis Ababa later this year are also on the agenda.

Richard Hamilton
BBC World Service Newsroom

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French President Emmanuel Macron has said his country remains fully committed to security in Africa.

Mr Macron is in Cameroon on a three-nation tour of the continent, which will also take him to Benin and Guinea-Bissau.

France is reconfiguring its position in the Sahel, after falling out with the military government in Mali and announcing it would withdraw its troops from there.

The jihadist insurgency began in northern Mali in 2012 and hit neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso in 2015.

Across the region, thousands of people have been killed and more than two million have fled their homes.

Lalla Sy
BBC News, Abidjan

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Burkina Faso’s ex-President Blaise Compaoré has apologised to the family of Thomas Sankara, his charismatic predecessor who was shot dead during a coup in 1987.

In April, Mr Compaoré was sentenced in absentia to life in prison for his role in the assassination. He had always described the death as an accident.

Mr Compaoré has lived in exile in neighbouring Ivory Coast since 2014 when he was ousted in a popular uprising after 27 years in power.

"I ask the people of Burkina Faso to forgive me for all the acts I committed during my term of office, especially to the family of my brother and friend Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara,” Mr Compaoré said in a statement.

“I take responsibility and deplore, from the bottom of my heart, all the sufferings and dramas experienced by all the victims during my mandates at the head of the country and ask their families to forgive me. I hope that we can move forward from now on to rebuild our common destiny on the land of our ancestors.”

The message was delivered to military ruler Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who took power in a coup in January, by an Ivorian delegation accompanied by the former president’s daughter Djamila Compaoré.

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Earlier this month, Lt-Col Damiba invited Mr Compaoré to Burkina Faso to attend a reconciliation summit of ex-presidents.

This message, in which Mr Compaoré also deplored the terror attacks the country regularly faces while calling on Burkinabès to unite to end their quarrels, is clearly the fruit of such reconciliation efforts.

Sankara, known by some as "Africa's Che Guevara", remains a hero for many across Africa because of his anti-imperialist stance and austere lifestyle.

The Marxist revolutionary who seized power aged 33 campaigned against corruption and oversaw huge increases in education and health spending.

More on this topic:

• 'Africa's Che Guevara': Thomas Sankara's legacy

Patience Atuhaire
BBC News, Kampala

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During a visit by Russia’s foreign minister to Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni would not be pushed to pick a side in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

“We don’t believe in being enemies of somebody’s enemy. No, we want to make our own enemies, not fight other people’s enemies, this is our doctrine,” he told reporters.

Mr Museveni was speaking at a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is on a tour of four African countries.

He added that Uganda wanted to trade with Russia, and with all countries of the world.

Mr Lavrov said Moscow appreciated what he called a well-balanced and responsible position taken by Uganda regarding the conflict in Ukraine.

He again denied that Russia was to blame for the global fuel and grain shortage.

Last week, Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to allow grain shipments from Ukrainian ports to resume.

Mr Lavrov's last stop will be Ethiopia, where he is expected to lay the ground for the next Russia-Africa summit.

Samba Cyuzuzo
BBC Great Lakes

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At least five people have died and 50 others have been injured during protests against the United Nations in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic of Congo.

Demonstrations have continued for a second day, demanding the departure of the peacekeeping force (Monusco).

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The protests, called by the government's youth wing, turned violent when demonstrators stormed the mission's local headquarters and a logistical base.

There have been chaotic scenes of burning and looting, one graphic image shared on social media shows a protester lying on the ground as others shout that he has been shot dead by the UN forces.

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Local media reported on Monday that UN forces fired live bullets to prevent protesters from attacking the premises.

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“We don’t have anything to say now, we are in bad times,” Monusco spokesperson Lt-Col Andrew Mtali told the BBC when asked about the reports on casualties.

The government says it has asked the army and police to restore the calm in Goma.

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The UN force have been deployed to the volatile region, where there are than 100 active rebel groups, for more than two decades.

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Local criticise it for failing to restore peace, especially at a time that is seeing a resurgence of the M23 rebel movement.

DR Congo accuses neighbouring Rwanda of supporting M23 - which Rwanda denies. Three weeks ago, the countries' two leaders agreed on a "de-escalation process" in eastern DR Congo.

Correction: This story has been amended to attribute the UN quote to Andrew Mtali not Khady Lo Ndeye.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury has withdrawn a motion asking Anglican bishops around the world to oppose same-sex marriage.

Justin Welby was responding to strong criticism from dozens of progressive bishops who described the motion as outdated.

They are among 650 bishops gathered at Canterbury for the first Lambeth Conference in 14 years.

Homosexuality is a deeply divisive issue among Anglicans, and socially conservative Church leaders from Nigeria, Rwanda, and Uganda have boycotted the meeting in southern England over the gay marriage issue.

The Lambeth conference is expected to include discussion on topics, such as climate change, poverty, and peace.