Retired colonel Guy Deacon ended the "almost impossible" journey in Cape Town after filming his trip.

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Timothy Weah, the son of Liberia's President George Weah, scored for the US in their World Cup opener against Wales that ended in a draw.

Tim Weah finished smartly after a surging run and pass by Christian Pulisic.

Gareth Bale rode to Wales' rescue with a late penalty.

President Weah is in Qatar for nine days to watch his American-born son play in the World Cup.

His trip has sparked controversy back home after the country's finance minister said the president was "entitled" to $2,000 (£1,700) daily allowance during his stay in Qatar.

Critics say awarding Mr Weah such a huge amount a day goes against his promise to reduce public spending in favour of his "pro-poor agenda".

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The military rulers in Mali have banned all non-governmental organisations that are funded or supported by France from operating in the country.

Humanitarian groups are included in the ban.

In a statement, the junta said the move followed France's decision to stop development aid over Bamako's alleged use of paramilitaries from the Russian Wagner group.

Mali's interim Prime Minister Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga denied those allegations, saying they were aimed a destabilising the country. He said the Russians were working as instructors.

Mali's foreign ministry described the French government as "dehumanising aid for our people" and said France was using the funds to "blackmail governments and support the terrorist groups in Mali".

The ministry said it had in response decided to "ban with immediate all the operations undertaken in Mali by NGOs funded or technically supported by France, including humanitarian organisations".

Three months ago Paris withdrew French troops working with Mali to counter jihadist groups.

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The BBC speaks to asylum seekers and residents in the seaside resort embroiled in the migrant row.

In a developing country like Rwanda building a market for electric cars has proved challenging.

It is exactly five years since Zimbabwe's ex-president left power but life is now worse for many.

The man who shot dead anti-apartheid hero Chris Hani should be freed on parole, judges rule.

At least 130 people including women, children and the elderly were taken, a local official says.

That's all for now from the BBC Africa Live team and we'll pick things up again on Tuesday morning Nairobi time. In the meantime there will be an automated service here and you can also check the African news on our website or listen to our BBC Africa Daily podcast.

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And we leave you with this picture from Kibera Fashion Week in Kenya by photographer Brian Otieno:

Solving a maths equation can tricky at the best of times, so spare a thought for the South African students who were presented with an "unsolvable" maths question in error, for their final mathematics paper.

The education council that sets and monitors standards for general and further education in South Africa has said that it is investigating the "problematic" maths question deemed "unsolvable" by a university professor of mathematics in the country's Daily Maverick newspaper, external.

The Daily Maverick printed the question as follows:

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No, we didn't get it either - but go to the Daily Maverick, external for a full discussion (and a possible solution!).

Umalusi, the Quality Council for General and Further Education and Training, has selected a panel to look into how the trigonometry question in the Grade 12 Mathematics Paper 2 became included, and why it was not detected before printing.

Speaking to South Africa's Sunday World newspaper , externalUmalusi CEO, Dr Mafu Rakometsi, said he wanted to reassure the public that the education council; "Will do everything humanly possible to ensure that no candidate is disadvantaged by the error in question 5.1.”

Ishaq Khalid
BBC News, Abuja

The authorities in the north-western Nigerian state of Zamfara say at least 130 people have been kidnapped by gunmen in a series of attacks in two different parts of the state.

Information commissioner Ibrahim Dosara told the BBC efforts were under way to rescue the hostages.

The mass kidnappings happened over the weekend when armed men on motorbikes raided several villages.

Reports suggest the victims include women and children - some seized while working on farms.

It’s harvesting season in Nigeria and armed kidnapping gangs have recently targeted farm workers in the region.

In some areas in the north-west of the country, the kidnappers have imposed levies on farmers as a condition to allow them harvest their crops unhindered.

Nigeria is grappling with an endemic kidnapping crisis by criminal gangs seeking ransom.

The insecurity is one of the key campaign issues ahead of the country’s elections scheduled for February next year - when a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari will be chosen.

Chris Ewokor
BBC News, Abuja

Police in Yobe state, north-east Nigeria, say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman who was allegedly detained by her husband and kept without food for a long time.

The victim died at the weekend in a hospital in Kano, after being rescued from the husband’s house in the Nguru area of Yobe state.

State police spokesman Dungus Abdulkarim told the BBC that the husband has been arrested adding that he would be charged in court as soon as investigations are concluded.

He has been accused of keeping the victim, who was a mother of four children, in an unhealthy condition and only providing a local drink called “kunu” to her whenever she asked for food. He has denied the allegations.

The husband also reportedly prevented people from gaining access to the wife’s room. The victim's mother raised the alarm after discovering her condition.

The woman’s death has sparked public outrage, with some women's groups mobilising and demanding justice for her.

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Malawian Lazarus Chigwandali has faced many hardships in life because he was born with albinism but his passion for music brought him international fame and Madonna’s attention.

Born into a family of farmers in Dedza, central Malawi, Lazurus's parents had five children and his younger brother was also born with albinism. The condition affects the production of the pigment that gives skin, hair and eyes their colour and also means that skin burns very easily.

“Our parents tied us on their backs when they worked in the fields. After a day in the sun, our whole bodies were full of blisters," he told the BBC.

"We couldn’t afford sun cream, so our parents took the decision to literally lock me and my brother in the house to protect us from the sun."

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When Lazarus and his brother did go out, the other children threw stones at them, thinking they would catch albinism. Because of this deep-rooted discrimination, Lazarus’s brother Peter knew they would never be able to get work like other people in the village and he suggested they forge a path in music together.

They had no instruments, so they made their own and started to get noticed performing in the local village. Sadly, Peter developed skin cancer and died when he was 12. Lazarus was devastated, but decided to play on alone.

Many people in Malawi and other East African countries wrongly believe that the body parts of people with albinism can bring wealth or good luck. People with albinism are frequently abducted, murdered or mutilated to supply this grisly trade. It’s something that Lazarus has witnessed first-hand.

“One time when I was performing outside a mall, a woman came past driving a nice car. She said her husband would pay me to do an album of 10 songs and he’d pay 1m kwacha ($973; £825) for each song.”

Lazarus got in the car to meet her husband and whilst waiting in the car, a maid from the house came out and told him she had overheard the couple making plans to sell him in neighbouring Tanzania. She told him his life was in danger if he didn’t get out, so he ran.

Lazarus’s love for music finally paid off when a passing NGO worker videoed him busking and posted it online. It was shared around the world and seen by a UK-based record producer who then recorded an album with Lazarus, bringing him international attention.

He went on to perform for Madonna and at Malawi’s international Lake of Stars music festival.

“Meeting Madonna and watching her perform was an eye opener in many ways, but perhaps the biggest thing for me is just sleeping in my own house that has iron sheets above my head. That has brought me such a deep joy, it’s unimaginable.”

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Senegalese fans in Qatar react ahead of the game against Group A opponents, the Netherlands.

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BBC News

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South Africa's Constitutional Court has ordered that a convicted murderer serving a life sentence for killing anti-apartheid activist Chris Hani in 1993 should be released on parole in 10 days.

Janusz Walus, an immigrant from Poland who had acquired South African citizenship, hoped the assassination would spark a racial war during the last days of the apartheid regime.

He has been in prison for the last 28 years and appeals to release him on parole have been vigorously opposed.

On Monday, widow Limpho Hani said the decision to release her husband's killer was "diabolical".

Walus together with his co-defendant Clive Derby-Lewis, who died in 2016, were sentenced to death shortly after Hani's killing, but the sentence was commuted to life after South Africa abolished the death penalty.

They both appealed for amnesty during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1997, with Walus saying that he was driven by political, anti-communist motives to kill Hani, who was then the secretary-general of the South African Communist Party (SACP), and also a leading figure in the armed wing of the African National Congress.

Walus' imprisonment won sympathy and support from far-right groups in Poland.

Huge banners bearing his portraits and chants calling for his release have been a common feature at some football stadiums in Poland.

Merchandise like scarves and stickers celebrating Walus have also been sold online.

In 2016, Walus met Hani's daughter, Lindiwe, in prison.

"He told her [that] when he lost his father [in 1997] then he understood that Chris Hani was not only a communist, but he was also a father and husband," Polish journalist Cezary Lazarewicz told me in 2020.

"Walus told me that he was very sorry for killing Lindiwe's father. But he never regretted [killing a] communist leader. He told me, in 1993, there was a war in South Africa and he felt like a soldier... he still believes in the system of racial segregation and that whites and blacks should live apart," Mr Lazarewicz added.

In court on Monday Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said "the principle of equality before the law was not just written for those who fought apartheid - but those who actively supported it", South African journalist Karyn Maughan reports. , external

But Limpho Hani, speaking minutes after the judgement was made, reacted angrily, "this judgment is diabolical, totally diabolical", external.

Read more: Why far-right Polish football fans idolise a murderer in South Africa

Fares Aljehani "clandestinely" took his children to Libya against their mum's wishes, a court hears.

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Kenyan Catholic Archbishop Anthony Muheria has requested an apology from the country’s trade minister over comments he made last week regarding concern about the use of genetically modified crops - or GMOs - in the country.

Debate around GMO use has been heating up after the government lifted a 10-year ban on their use in the face of a crippling drought and food shortage.

Last week, in a bid to persuade Kenyans to accept the crops, Trade Secretary Moses Kuria told Kenyans: "We have so many things that can kill us in the country. Being in this country, you are a candidate for death. And because so many things compete for death, there is nothing wrong with adding GMOs to that list.”

Archbishop Muheria said he found the comments “distasteful and disrespectful” and urged leaders not to “take Kenyans for granted” or “trivialise serious matters like food security”.

Winnie Odinga, daughter of opposition leader Raila Odinga and East Africa Legislative Assembly (EALA) member, told Kenyan radio station, Spice FM, external: “GMO is not something that is right for us right now.”

Debates around GMO use in the country have been building following the government’s recent reversal of a 10-year ban on the crops. A survey conducted by a non-governmental organisation, Route to Food Initiative, last year showed that 57% of Kenyans do not welcome GMOs, who will now have to be persuaded.

The government say the lifting of the GMO ban was prompted by the real need to ensure food security as Kenya is currently facing a severe water shortage caused by four failed consecutive rainy seasons, amid one of the harshest droughts the East African region has seen in four decades. This means crops are not able to grow, prompting warnings of potential famine.

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• Why Kenya is turning to genetically modified crops to help with drought

Tanzania air operators say over 600 workers are set to lose their jobs after the semi-autonomous government of Zanzibar awarded a Dubai-based company exclusive rights to handle ground services at a refurbished airport.

The Tanzania Air Operators Association (Taoa) said in a statement that the contract awarded to Dnata, which is registered at the London Stock Exchange, was in breach of the law banning any company from having exclusive rights to ground-handling services at major airports.

The process of awarding the tender to Dnata was not “transparent, and due process was not followed and it was conducted against the law”, the statement said.

Zanzibar’s President Hussein Mwinyi defended the government’s decision, saying the aim was “to provide world-class standards” at the new terminal at Abeid Amani Karume International Airport.

The new operator officially starts operations at the terminal from 1 December, which was built at a cost of $120m (£101m).

The expansion aims at increasing the number of passengers at the airport can handle from just under a million per year to 1.5 million, according to earlier reports by the government.

Tourism is the main source of income for Zanzibar and airline industry is a major stakeholder. The stand-off is expected to dominate politics in the island.

Salim Kikeke
BBC Swahili presenter

"No Mane, no problem" - that seems to be the feeling from the Senegalese fans as they prepare to head to Al Thumana Stadium in Doha for their opening World Cup game against the Netherlands.

Senegal will be the first of Africa's five teams to play at the tournament in Qatar.

As the supporters gather just outside Souq Waqif metro station there is a lot of optimism.

“We will definitely miss Sadio Mane today, but we the fans are going to give it all to be behind the team,” says Hassan Waly who has travelled from Washington DC.

“We have a very strong squad and winning the African Cup of Nations earlier this year gives us a lot of confidence,” says Waly.

Many fans have had long flights to get here but they are very happy that things are now getting going.

One fan, who came from Paris and had a 12-hour layover in Istanbul, shares that he slept in a mosque while waiting for his next flight. “It's worth it,” he says.

Apart from the Netherlands, Senegal are in the same group with hosts Qatar, who lost their opening game against Equador on Sunday.

As dozens of fans converge, suddenly things come to a standstill at one corner of Souq Waqif as drumbeats from the Senegal fans' drum band hit the quiet sunny afternoon.

The drummers in red, yellow and green colours attract crowds of passers-by.

Senegal have arrived.