Two employees of South African Premier Division side Marumo Gallants held in Libya for over two weeks after reportedly failing to cover costs.
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That's all for now from the BBC Africa Live team, but we'll be back on Wednesday morning.
Until then you can find the latest updates on the BBC News website, or listen to our Africa Today podcast.
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Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says 19 soldiers abducted by rebels in the Central African Republic in February have been released.
An ICRC official said the group - seized during a raid in the north of the country - were due to arrive in the northern town of Birao before being transferred to the capital Bangui.
Last month an alliance of rebel groups - the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC) - was blamed for an attack on a gold mine that left nine Chinese workers dead.
The rebels blamed the Russian mercenary group, Wagner. Its fighters have been hired to help the government defeat the rebels.
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Image source, AFPThe Al-Jazeera report claims Zimbabwe's Central Bank is implicated
The Zimbabwean government says it has ordered an investigation into reports of gold smuggling and money laundering.
Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa says the authorities take allegations raised in a TV documentary series by the broadcaster Al-Jazeera very seriously.
She said that anyone involved in corruption and fraud would face the full wrath of the law.
The TV programmes use undercover reporters to reveal what they say are criminal networks linked to a subsidiary of Zimbabwe's Central Bank, smuggling gold to Dubai.
Gold has become the country's biggest export.
Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service
Image source, AFPBeny Steinmetz is an Israeli businessman
A Swiss appeals court has upheld a guilty verdict against the mining magnate Beny Steinmetz who was sentenced two years ago on corruption charges for payments to obtain permits in Guinea.
The West African country has the world's richest untapped deposits of iron ore.
Mr Steinmetz and two others were found guilty of paying or arranging the payment of more than $8m (£6.4m) worth of bribes to a wife of the former Guinean President Lansana Conté between 2006 and 2010.
All three defendants denied the charges.
The judges at the appeals court sentenced them to three years in prison.
Mr Steinmetz's conviction for forgery was overturned. He said he would appeal the corruption verdict in Switzerland's highest court.
Hanna Temuari
BBC News, Addis Ababa
The authorities in Ethiopia say they have detained a number of individuals they believe were plotting to kill high-ranking government officials.
In a statement on Monday, a joint peace and security task force says they were working in secret to kill officials in four major cities including the capital, Addis Ababa.
Most of the detainees listed by state-linked media outlets are scholars while media owners and activists are also said to be part of the alleged "clandestine" group.
Separately, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said security forces have arrested two media practitioners in recent weeks and is calling for their release.
Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service
At least 10 secondary school students have been abducted in Kaduna state in north-west Nigeria.
They were seized on Monday from a government school in Awon.
Kaduna is one of several states where armed gangs have frequently carried out attacks. In 2021, hundreds of students were kidnapped for ransom from various schools and colleges.
But in recent months there's been a lull in such attacks.
Last year the Nigerian government introduced new currency notes and limited cash withdrawals partly to try to stop the kidnapping for ransom attacks.
Botswana's government-owned Daily News newspaper says a newborn baby has been rescued from a latrine.
In a post on its Facebook page, the Daily News says emergency services spent two hours retrieving the infant who is now being treated at a nearby hospital in the south of the country:
Outraged South African MPs have had no choice but to postpone a key committee meeting about a high-risk prison escapee, because representatives for British-owned security company G4S failed to turn up.
G4S employees are accused of helping the jailed serial rapist Thabo Bester to escape from his prison last May - allegations the firm has not commented on.
Local reports allege that a dead body was placed inside Bester's prison cell which was then set on fire, external, to make it look as if Bester had died in the blaze.
Bester has been at large ever since. A woman who had been dating the escaped convict without knowing his true identity only realised who he was when she saw his photo publicised.
The case has shocked and angered many in South Africa.
Explaining its absence from Monday's meeting, the security firm said "G4SCS SA is bound by statutory confidentiality obligations … and contractual confidentiality obligations.
"In order to enable G4SCS SA to fully and properly engage with the portfolio committee, it would need to be afforded the same protections which ordinarily would apply to those attending parliamentary committees."
Image source, Getty ImagesThabo Bester, right, is known as the Facebook Rapist (archive photo)
Ahead of the Women's World Cup, Atlas Lionesses coach Reynald Pedros hopes to tap into the experience gained by Morocco's men in Qatar.
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Image source, Getty ImagesMacky Sall has led Senegal since 2012 (archive photo)
Senegal's president has told the nation he is "open to dialogue" in a televised address, weeks after a prominent rival who's on trial accused him of using a "strategy of terror" to drive out political opponents.
President Macky Sall made the comments in a speech on Monday evening, ahead of independence day celebrations on Tuesday which are being snubbed by the Yewwi Askan Wi opposition coalition.
The country is less than a year away from presidential elections, and last month there was an outcry when Mr Sall said it wouldn't be illegal for him to seek a third term in power despite the constitution limiting presidents to two consecutive terms.
He has not yet officially declared whether he intends to step down or run for top office again.
The authorities in Namibia have warned residents of a northern town against eating fish swept up by floodwater that is suspected to be contaminated.
The fish are believed to have been killed by an outbreak of a fungal disease, according to officials quoted by local media reports.
Heavy rains have been pounding the Ohangwena region, which is near the border with Angola.
Samples of the fish have been taken for analysis and residents will be informed at a later stage about when it's to start eating fish again, chief fisheries biologist Elizabeth Ndivayele is quoted as saying.
Residents told journalists that they had made a fortune from selling some of the fish.
Image source, ReutersFootage of the incident has been widely shared
Kenyan media say the police have opened an internal investigation into a plain-clothes officer who appeared to fire tear gas at journalists at point-blank range during last week's anti-government protests.
A viral video which appears to show the officer breaking a windscreen and firing tear gas at journalists inside a car drew condemnation from diplomats and politicians.
The car was part of a convoy accompanying opposition leader Raila Odinga as he made his way through neighbourhoods in Nairobi to rally supporters.
On Tuesday the Inspector General of Police Japheth Koome said that all alleged incidents of police misconduct during the protests were being probed.
"A policeman breaking a window of the car? Regarding all officers, any issue of malpractice or misconduct brought to us is investigated and we take action. I received those complaints and they are being handled," he is quoted as saying by The Star news website.
The centre forms part of the new capital, which has been purpose-built to move people from Cairo.
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Africa editor, BBC World Service
Image source, AFPThe war has destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives
The European Union says any decision to normalise relations with the Ethiopian government will depend on how successful efforts are at resolving the conflict in the northern Tigray region.
After the civil war broke out in November 2020, the EU suspended budgetary support citing human rights abuses.
The EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said progress on ending the conflict was a rare example of good news in the world today.
But he said the gradual normalisation of relations with Ethiopia was dependent on how the peace process develops.
Earlier this year, EU officials said there had to be accountability for widespread abuses committed during the war in Tigray.
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The Khoi and San people, who discovered rooibos tea, have only recently started receiving a share of the industry's multimillion-pound profits.
"When we put in a claim for rooibos, there were many highly respected people internationally who said our plan was nonsense... Our reasoning was very simple. If something is taken without permission and without transfer of any benefits it doesn't matter how long ago it was, there is still an obligation to pay for it or acknowledge it," says the San people's lawyer Roger Chennells.
He says it was also an opportunity for white farmers to "be seen to be doing the right thing" and enter the "fair trade world where they are in partnership with the indigenous community - and the entire rooibos industry is in fact based upon a beautiful partnership now".
BBC Business Daily also hears from the rooibos farmers who are now having to pay out, and finds out what this deal could mean for other indigenous groups in a similar situation.
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Princess Chantal Revell from the National Khoi and San Council enjoys a cuppa
The DJ and philanthropist says the money will help African students to commit to top-level studies.
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BBC World Service
Gunmen in South Africa have killed the widow of a traditional leader, who was himself shot dead last month.
Police in Mpumulanga said Charlene Mathews was attacked inside her home early on Tuesday. Her husband, Clyde Mnisi, was expected to appear in court later this month to face charges of involvement in rhino poaching.
Others, including serving and former police - one of whom worked in Kruger national park - are due in court in connection with the alleged poaching.
Chief Mnisi was shot dead at the roadside by five gunmen wearing balaclavas. No one has been arrested
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Image source, Getty ImagesDisease outbreaks have been reported in camps for displaced people
Aid agency, Médecins Sans Frontières, says far more humanitarian assistance is urgently needed in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
MSF says about a million people have been forced to flee their homes in North Kivu province over the last year as a result of violent clashes linked to the M23 rebel group.
The medical charity says most of the displaced are living in appalling conditions and its teams are completely overwhelmed with increasing cases of measles and cholera.
Several East African countries have deployed troops to eastern Congo in an effort to get the M23 rebels to withdraw.
DR Congo has accused the neighbouring Rwanda of supporting the rebel group, a claim Kigali denies.