Somalia's only official boxing club offers a haven for a group of young people in Mogadishu.

Nigerians cheer on chef Hilda Baci, who looks set to be a Guinness World Record holder.

That's all from the BBC Africa Live team for now. We'll be back on Wednesday morning with the latest news and views from around the continent.

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And we leave you with this photo of Malian director Souleymane Cissé at Cannes Film Festival in France:

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The two people accused of murdering a young Namibian woman, the discovery of whose body in 2020 prompted nationwide women's protests, have been found not guilty of her murder.

But siblings Azaan Madisia and Steven Mulundu were found guilty of defeating the course of justice.

Twenty-two-year-old Shannon Wasserfal had been missing for six months before her body was found in a shallow grave.

Madisia and Mulundu were arrested and accused of murder after they had come forward the body had been discovered.

Madisia had sent the victim's father an anonymous tip-off on where to find the body.

The incident triggered demonstrations that focussed on the extent of gender-based violence in Namibia under the hashtag #ShutItAllDown.

Madisia did admit in court that Ms Wasserfal had died in her house and her brother helped bury her body.

Eight out of 10 South African schoolchildren struggle to read well by the age of 10, according to an international study.

The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2021 evaluated the reading performance among grade four pupils in 43 countries.

South Africa came lowest with Singapore faring best, external.

It showed 81% of South African children assessed could not read for comprehension in any of South Africa's 11 official languages.

"Unfortunately, the test results reveal disappointingly low scores in reading literacy," AFP news agency quotes Education Minister Angie Motshekga as saying.

She blamed the Covid pandemic during which schools were closed for roughly a year.

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Malian Prime Minister Choguel Maïga has rejected a UN report that accused the army and foreign forces of killing at least 500 civilians in the central village of Moura in March last year.

Mr Maïga said the report sought to tarnish the reputation of the security forces, state-owned television ORTM reported on Monday.

He said that no-one would make Malians doubt their army and its rising strength in recent months.

Mali has now ordered an "espionage" probe of the UN, whom it accused of being manipulated by the "French junta".

Meanwhile, Mali's High Authority of Communication (HAC) has condemned French television TV5 for its Africa editor’s remarks on the UN report, the privately-owned aBamako website reported, external.

The media regulator said Ousmane Ndiaye’s analysis was a "malicious indictment" against Mali, its army and authorities.

Mali's junta suspended France 24 and RFI in March 2022 for reporting on alleged abuses by the army and Russian mercenaries in the country.

Earlier this month, Malian authorities announced that a much-delayed referendum on a draft constitution will be held in June.

A new constitution is one of the key steps put in place before the restoration of a civilian government, following the ousting of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in 2020.

Christian Hanson tells how he climbed as fast as he could to get off a capsized yacht in the Red Sea.

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The youngest son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti is being held in police custody for 48 hours after he assaulted an officer.

Seun Kuti, 40, does not deny that he did it.

Last week Nigerian media quoted the musician as saying he had to act, because the policeman "tried to kill me and my family... He has apologised and I have agreed not to press charges."

A police chief ordered Kuti's detention on Saturday and the musician handed himself in on Monday.

On Tuesday, he appeared before Lagos' Yaba Magistrate Court, which sent him to be held in police custody for 48 hours, after which he can be bailed.

The case is adjourned until next Tuesday.

A one-year-old boy dies and 23 others are missing after the animal capsizes the vessel.

The first person to lead a Tanzanian side at a World Cup says the women's game is the nation's best shot at global success.

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Libya’s eastern-based parliament has voted to suspend its Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha - and has replaced him with his Finance Minister Osama Hamada.

Mr Bashagha took the post last year but has been unable to supplant the rival interim prime minister of the UN-recognised government, Abdulhamid al-Ddeibah, based in the capital, Tripoli.

The eastern parliament said Mr Dbeidah’s mandate expired in December 2021 after national elections were postponed.

Since then there have been clashes between supporters of the two men - most notably when Mr Bashagha tried and failed to enter Tripoli in May last year.

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Six African leaders are to travel to Russia and Ukraine in a bid to find an end to the conflict, South Africa's president has announced.

Cyril Ramaphosa said he had held separate phone calls over the weekend with his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts.

Both Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky had agreed to the plan, he said.

"Principal to our discussions are efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the devastating conflict in the Ukraine, its cost in human lives and impact on the African continent," Mr Ramaphosa said.

"I presented the initiative on behalf of African heads of state from Zambia, Senegal, Congo, Uganda, Egypt and South Africa."

It is not clear whether he was referring to Congo-Brazzaville or the Democratic Republic of Congo.

"The two leaders agreed to receive the mission and the African heads of state, in both Moscow and Kyiv," the South Africa leader said, adding that the UN chief had been briefed and welcomed the African initiative.

Mr Ramphosa's comments, made in Cape Town during a visit by Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, come as senior South African military officers are visiting Russia.

The South African leader has reiterated that South Africa will not take sides over the war in Ukraine.

This follows the diplomatic row that erupted last week when the US ambassador to South Africa accused the country of secretly providing arms and ammunition to Russia.

Mr Ramaphosa has agreed to investigate the claim but says there is no concrete evidence to support the allegations.

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A South African government adviser says the country's energy crisis means it is "unintentionally" ahead of its target for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases.

Crispian Olver, the head of South Africa's Presidential Climate Commission, made the comment in a briefing in Johannesburg.

The country is the world's 14th biggest emitter of climate-warming gases.

Regular breakdowns of the coal-fired power plants that supply more than 80% of South Africa's electricity mean that less carbon dioxide is being pumped into the atmosphere.

Daily rotational power cuts of more than 10 hours a day are further limiting emissions from factories.

South Africa's president has declared a state of disaster to try and deal with a crippling and unprecedented energy crisis.

While same-sex weddings remain illegal in Namibia, couples who marry abroad will now have their unions recognised in the country.

That ruling by Namibia's Supreme Court follows campaigns by rights activists and couples who had themselves been penalised by existing laws.

The Namibia Equal Rights Movement welcomed the news by tweeting: "Love Wins! Thank you to the Digashu and Sieller-Lilles family. Your strength in this fight, has changed this nation for generations of Queer Namibians to come. #WeBelong, external."

As The Namibian newspapers explains "the court’s judgement gives non-Namibian spouses in same-sex marriages the same residence rights in Namibia that are accorded to spouses in opposite-sex marriages", external.

It is not yet clear what this ruling means for long-standing laws that prohibit sexual activity between men.

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Three people are now known to have died during clashes between Senegalese police and supporters of the opposition politician, Ousmane Sonko. He's currently on trial accused of rape.

The protests broke out on Monday in the capital Dakar and in the southern city of Ziguinchor ahead of Mr Sonko's scheduled court appearance.

He has denied the charge and did not turn up for the latest hearing. As a result, it has been adjourned for a week.

His allies say the case is a political ploy aimed at preventing him from running in next year's presidential election.

The authorities said one of those who died was a police officer who was accidentally crushed by an armoured vehicle.

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A BBC investigation has found evidence suggesting some results from Nigeria's presidential election in February may have been manipulated.

The winner Bola Tinubu is due to be inaugurated on 29 May, but the opposition is challenging this.

We’ve uncovered significant anomalies in the key battleground state of Rivers, where many of the opposition complaints have been made.

There are also questions over the identity of an election official who read out some of the unexplained results.

Nigeria’s election commission has told us it won’t comment while there are ongoing legal challenges to the vote.

Our findings would not have changed the overall outcome of the election, which Mr Tinubu won by 1.8 million votes.

You can read more here.

The Kingdom of Lesotho has declared a night curfew after a prominent investigative journalist was shot dead in the capital, Maseru, by unknown gunmen.

Ralikonelo Joki was killed shortly after he left work at the privately-owned Tsénolo FM radio on Sunday night.

The station's manager Mshengu Shabalala said the journalist was shot twice as he was driving out of the station's premises, local media said.

Minister of Police Lebona Lephema, in a televised address on Monday, said there would be no movement from 22:00 to 04:00 local time starting Tuesday.

Mr Lephema said the curfew "is to ensure order is restored" amid escalating crime cases in the country.

The killing of the journalist has sparked uproar, with the Committee to Protect Journalists calling for credible investigations and prosecution of those responsible.

Several journalists have over the past few years either been shot, assaulted or fled Lesotho over threats because of their work.

In 2016, a group of soldiers wounded Lloyd Mutungamiri, then editor of the Lesotho Times, days after his newspaper published a report critical of the defence forces.

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Kenya’s President William Ruto has sacked a principal secretary in charge of public health and disbanded the entire board of a medical supplies agency amid a corruption scandal.

The scam involves a bungled tender involving the supply of donor-funded treated bed nets meant to protect against malaria-causing mosquitoes worth $27m (£21.5m).

The Global Fund had tasked the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) to procure more than 10 million nets to be distributed to low-income households in about half of the counties in the country that are malaria-endemic.

But Global Fund cancelled the tender - accusing Kemsa of irregularities by allegedly favouring one company whose documents were not in order, and unfairly locking out others.

In 2020, Kemsa was again in the spotlight over claims of misappropriation of millions of dollars intended to buy personal protective equipment and other essential health facilities at the height of the Covid pandemic.

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There have been fierce clashes between the Sudanese army and the rival Rapid Support Forces in the capital Khartoum and neighbouring cities of Omdurman and Bahri, across the River Nile.

The military has continued to carry out air strikes and residents sheltering in their homes are hearing loud explosions.

Rights groups in Darfur say fighting around the city of el-Geneina over the last few days has left more than 350 people dead.

There have been widespread reports of Arab militias loyal to the RSF attacking, looting and burning homes.

Medics say the health system in Darfur has totally collapsed.

The two warring parties are meant to have been negotiating in Saudi Arabia but so far all commitments to protect civilians and allow humanitarian access have been broken.

Seven people have died and 17 others remain trapped after a mining pit collapsed in Ghana's Birim North district of the Eastern Region.

Only two of the trapped miners were rescued alive on Monday at the Korle Teye Takorso site, according to the local media.

Local miners, who are leading the rescue mission, reportedly prevented journalists from taking photographs of the incident and chased them away.

Authorities are yet to comment on the incident.

Heavy rains recorded in most parts of the country are suspected to have caused the pit to collapse.

Illegal mining in Ghana, commonly known as galamsey, has continued despite intensified crackdown by the government.