A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week.

Reports, results and scorecards from the Netherlands' limited-overs tour of South Africa, featuring two ODIs.

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

Until then you can find the latest updates on the BBC News website, or listen to our Africa Today podcast.

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And we leave you with this photo of students breaking their fast at the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, on Wednesday, as Muslims around the world observe the holy month of Ramadan.

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Ferdinand Omondi
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At least two journalists have been reportedly injured during the latest round of anti-government protests in Nairobi and other parts of Kenya.

In the capital, a cameraman was reportedly bloodied by a teargas canister which hit his face and tore his skin.

In Kisumu, another cameraman was seriously injured by a group who reportedly pelted him with stones for filming them as they allegedly robbed a supermarket.

A statement from the Kisumu Journalists Association says Eric Nabiswa missed a step when fleeing and broke his ribs.

It had initially looked like a peaceful day, with armed security monitoring tense but quiet hotspots around Nairobi.

Earlier on, opposition leader Raila Odinga, his running mate in the last elections, Martha Karua, and other leaders of the Azimio coalition addressed ecstatic supporters.

Unlike Monday’s chaos, both protesters and police appeared restrained.

But later in the day police appeared to prevent Mr Odinga’s convoy from accessing some parts of the capital.

They also attempted to disperse gathered crowds with teargas canisters and fired pink water from cannons.

Some crowds responded by throwing rocks at a nearby police station.

In some residences around Nairobi, civilians filmed apparent gangs patrolling streets and allegedly robbing anyone on sight.

Around Kenya there were more incidences of blatant disorder.

In Siaya town, north-west of Kisumu, the offices of the ruling United Democratic Alliance Party were set ablaze.

Mr Odinga has vowed to continue with bi-weekly protests to push for what he calls electoral justice and to apply pressure on the government to fix the high cost of living.

President William Ruto has said he will only engage Mr Odinga within the confines of the constitution.

Diplomats, including from the US, UK and African Union, have called for sobriety and a quick resolution.

Dengue fever has spread to Sudan's capital, Khartoum, for the first time since records began, the Reuters news agency reports quoting the health ministry.

The country as a whole is currently facing a widespread outbreak of the disease, which has led to the deaths of at least 45 people since last July in 12 states, Reuters reports.

Dengue is frequently reported in the country, but has normally been found in areas far away from Khartoum.

The disease is spread by mosquitoes. Symptoms include a high temperature, headache and muscle pain, among others.

The World Health Organization has warned that what Sudanese hospitals are seeing now is just "the tip of the iceberg", because many people do not seek out medical assistance as their symptoms are not bad enough.

Defending champions Senegal, Algeria, Burkina Faso, Morocco, South Africa and Tunisia have all booked their place at next year's Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast.

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A leading Senegalese opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko, has been found guilty of libel and handed a two month suspended jail sentence.

Sonko was charged with libel after accusing the country's Tourism Minister Mame Mbaye Niang of embezzlement.

Protests broke out across the capital, Dakar, ahead of the trial.

Sonko's lawyers say the sentence is not expected to prevent him from running in presidential elections next year.

He had previously denied the charges and said they were a tactic to eliminate him from the race.

Kalkidan Yibeltal
BBC News, Addis Ababa

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Prosecutors in Ethiopia say they’re dropping criminal charges placed against senior civil and military leaders from the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF).

This is the latest move following a peace deal signed last year to end one of Africa’s deadliest conflicts between the TPLF and the government.

A statement by the ministry of justice said on Thursday that conflict-related cases would be seen “in the context of transitional justice”.

In July 2021 more than 60 senior TPLF figures, including its leader Debretsion Gebremichael, and Getachew Reda, now appointed interim head of the Tigray region, were charged with terrorism. Institutions linked with the organisation were also charged.

Since the agreement was reached between the federal government and Tigray fighters last year, relative peace has returned to northern Ethiopia after two years of bloodshed.

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South Africa Tourism has decided to scrap, external a proposed sponsorship deal with English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur.

“The SA Tourism Board will no longer proceed with the transaction” given the “current economic climate, the use of public funds must be carefully considered”, Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille said.

Just last week, Ms De Lille condemned the deal after taking legal advice, saying it had not been budgeted for adequately.

The three-year shirt sleeve sponsorship deal was valued at about $51m (£41m) and would have started for the 2023-24 season and concluded in 2026-27.

The proposed deal has caused a huge uproar across the country, particularly from cash-strapped national sports federations and labour unions, who believe the money would be better spent elsewhere.

You can read more about the deal here.

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Protesters in Sudan have planned several large gatherings over the next few weeks to push for a fully civilian government, according to local media.

An agreement between the country’s military leaders and some civilian groups is expected soon - and possibly the announcement of a new civilian government to oversee the country until elections are held.

For the protesters the future role of the army, which overthrew an interim government in October 2021, is critical.

After long-time leader Omar Bashir was overthrown in 2019, civilian groups and the military shared power for a couple of years.

Siddig Tower Kafi - who was a civilian member of the country’s highest body, the Sovereign Council, at that time - has reservations about the framework agreement the military and some civilian groups are poised to sign.

"The military component itself is extremely untrustworthy... nobody can trust it anymore because in the past it made many obstacles and hindered the transformation to the civilian situation," he told the BBC Newsday presenter James Copnall.

"They used their position to weaken the security situation."

The military does not want to work under the rule of law, he says.

"They want exceptional status that they dominate the dictatorship system as was before during the period of Omar al-Bashir."

Listen to the full interview:

Jersey's hopes of progressing to the final stage of qualification for the ICC World Cup are slim after defeat against Namibia.

Malawi head coach Mario Marinica lashes out at the country's fans for showing more support for visiting Egypt's 'superstars' than the home team.

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Nigeria’s secret police have warned against an alleged plot being hatched by “misguided” politicians to put in place an interim government after 29 May when President Muhammadu Buhari leaves offices and hands over power to President-elect Bola Tinubu.

On Wednesday, the Department of State Services warned that it would do everything in its power to stop the plan, which it said was “unconstitutional and punishable by death”, local media reported.

DSS spokesperson Peter Afunanya said the department had identified those behind the scheme to “thwart” democracy.

Mr Afunanya said the planners wanted to sponsor “endless violent mass protests in major cities, to warrant a declaration of a state of emergency”, and also “obtain frivolous court injunctions” to delay the presidential, legislative and state level inaugurations.

Earlier, Mr Tinubu had raised the alarm over a plot by some "aggrieved partisans" to truncate the transitional process.

However, opposition politicians say the DSS warning is intended to intimidate Nigerians and prevent them from seeking judicial redress over the disputed 25 February polls.

Nichola Mandil
BBC News, Juba

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South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has appointed a new defence minister to replace Angelina Teny, whom he sacked earlier this month.

The appointment of Gen Chol Thon Balok was announced in a presidential decree read on the national broadcaster, the South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC), on Wednesday night.

Gen Thon is from the president's Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party. Prior to his appointment, he served as deputy defence minister.

Ms Teny belongs to the party of Vice-President Riek Machar, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO).

The two parties are part of a unity government formed after Mr Kiir and Mr Machar signed a peace agreement to end a brutal six-year civil war.

The deal splits cabinet posts between the parties.

The SPLM-IO says Mr Kiir's "unilateral" decision to effectively swap the defence and interior portfolios between the parites is a violation of the agreement.

Mr Kiir and Mr Machar met a few weeks later to discuss the dismissal of Ms Teny, but failed to reach a solution.

They promised to meet at a later date but have not done so since then.

The SPLM-IO has not officially commented on the latest appointment.

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A health official in the Tunisian province of Sfax has warned that the number of bodies of sub-Saharan migrants recovered from shipwrecks in recent days are more than the local medical system can handle.

State news agency TAP cited the regional director of health, Hatem Cherif, as saying that the morgue of Habib Bourguiba University Hospital in the provincial capital had received 42 bodies of migrants - noting that the morgue could only handle 35 bodies.

The bodies were pulled out of the sea after their boats sank in recent days off the province's coast.

Last week, the morgue had received 70 bodies, Mr Cherif was quoted as saying, warning that with summer approaching, the pace of illegal migration attempts by sea would accelerate and the decomposition of bodies would be faster due to rising temperatures.

The official appealed to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to provide refrigerated containers and lorries to transport bodies to the hospital.

TAP noted that more than 800 bodies of sub-Saharan Africans - who had died at sea - had been buried in local cemeteries in Sfax throughout 2022 and this year.

The past few weeks have seen a spike in attempted sea crossings to Italy by undocumented migrants.

On Sunday, domestic media reported the death of at least 29 migrants during attempted sea crossings from Sfax.

The incidents came amid a campaign of arrests of sub-Saharan Africans living in the country and an anti-migrant narrative embraced by President Kais Saied in recent weeks.

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Police in Malawi will declare 537 missing persons dead after Tropical Storm Freddy unleashed devastation in the country.

The storm saw mudslides sweep through neighbourhoods and bury people in mud.

The head of the disaster management unit, Charles Kalemba, told reporters on Wednesday that chances of finding the missing persons alive were slim after 17 days of searching.

He cited a case where where an entire village was swept away by a mudslide and police using sniffer dogs were unable to rescue anyone. The search operation in the area has been called off, he added.

“There are about 537 people still missing. They would not be alive by now considering that it’s now about 17 days since they went missing,” he told a media briefing.

Troops were still searching for missing people, head of military operations Major General Saiford Kalisha added.

President Lazaraus Chakwera on Tuesday told a virtual summit that the tropical storm killed over 600 Malawians and washed away over 100,000 homes - leaving over half a million people homeless.

Read more about how the storm has affected Malawi here.

Heavy police presence has been witnessed at former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta's home in the central region, days after his family-owned property was raided.

A local police commander said a total of 30 officers have been deployed at Mr Kenyatta's Ichaweri home to keep watch in case of any possible eventuality, a local TV station reported.

On Monday, Mr Kenyatta family's farm was invaded by looters and a gas cylinder factory linked to opposition leader Raila Odinga was also vandalised.

The invasion sparked outrage, with police being faulted for failing to protect the property of the former head of state.

On Tuesday, President William Ruto said he would ensure everyone’s life, property, and business was protected during the ongoing opposition protests.

Reports say police have also been deployed at opposition politician Martha Karua’s rural home in Kirinyaga, also in central Kenya. Ms Karua was Mr Odinga's running-mate in last year's election.

Earlier on Thursday, police officers in full riot gear were seen patrolling the capital Nairobi, as well as the western city of Kisumu, where sporadic protests have already been reported.

Mr Odinga has vowed that the anti-government protests will continue despite a ban and a warning from police that they will do anything to prevent any kind of gathering.

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A 38-year-old Nigerian CEO has bought a 55% stake in second division Danish football club, Aarhus Fremad.

Shola Akinlade is the co-founder of financial tech start-up Paystack and owner of Sporting Lagos FC - a football club in Nigeria's commercial capital.

The tech entrepreneur said he was honoured and excited to start this new chapter.

Aarhus Fremad has not disclosed how much Mr Akinlade paid for the stake in the club.

Mr Akinlade, who currently lives in California, founded Paystack in 2015 with an old schoolmate. Their firm was bought by US online payment giant Stripe for $200m (£162m) in 2020, but continues to operate independently.

Aarhus Fremad is currently top of Denmark's second division - which is the third tier of the Danish football league system.

The outspoken critic of Rwanda's government arrives in America days after being released from prison.

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A French court has sentenced a Rwanda man to four years in jail for starting a fire that severely damaged a Gothic cathedral in the western city of Nantes in 2020.

On Wednesday, the court ruled that Emmanuel Abayisenga, a volunteer at the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, was not mentally sound at the time of the fire, the AFP news agency reports.

In addition to the prison sentence, the court also banned Abayisenga from staying in the Loire-Atlantique region, where Nantes is located, for five years, and prohibited him from bearing arms.

Abayisenga is also facing legal action for a separate incident in which he allegedly killed a priest in western France in 2021.

He has reportedly asked unsuccessfully for asylum in France several times and in 2019 received a deportation order.

Prosecutors said the defendant set fire to the cathedral knowingly due to "huge anger and a feeling of revenge linked to his administrative situation".

The fire was contained but the church's famous 17th-Century organ, which had survived the French Revolution and bombardment during World War Two, was destroyed, AFP added.

Priceless artefacts and paintings were also destroyed in the blaze.

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