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Winning UK show would mean bigger house - Ghetto Kidspublished at 00:27 British Summer Time 4 June 2023
A group of Ugandan children is on the verge of glory after reaching the final of Britain's Got Talent.
Read MoreCaesarean by phone light - giving birth in a warzonepublished at 00:04 British Summer Time 4 June 2023
Women in Sudan's few remaining maternity wards are having babies to the sound of gunfire.
Read MoreThree Israeli soldiers killed near Egypt borderpublished at 18:44 British Summer Time 3 June 2023
The incident came after a drug smuggling operation was thwarted at the border, the army says.
Read MoreAre Al Ahly Africa's version of Real Madrid?published at 17:22 British Summer Time 3 June 2023
As Egypt's Al Ahly bid for a record-extending eleventh continental title, can similarities be drawn with Europe's most successful club side?
Read MoreUganda's Ghetto Kids seek glory in UK talent showpublished at 16:22 British Summer Time 3 June 2023
The children from Uganda tell the BBC about reaching the final of hit UK TV show Britain's Got Talent.
Read MorePutin - South Africa's big headachepublished at 00:22 British Summer Time 3 June 2023
The Russian leader's invasion of Ukraine has made life complicated for South Africa on several fronts.
Read MoreCourt halts deportation of man with rare illnesspublished at 18:38 British Summer Time 2 June 2023
Youssef Mikhaiel, from Egypt, has won a last-ditch attempt to prevent his removal from the UK.
Read MoreScroll down for Friday's storiespublished at 17:31 British Summer Time 2 June 2023
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Image source, Getty ImagesSoldiers on streets of Senegal's capital after deadly protestspublished at 17:20 British Summer Time 2 June 2023
Richard Hamilton
BBC World Service Newsroom
Image source, AFPThe government in Senegal has deployed soldiers throughout the capital, Dakar, as residents brace themselves for more unrest.
On Thursday clashes between security forces and protesters left nine people dead.
It followed the conviction of opposition politician Ousmane Sonko for immoral behaviour. He was sentenced - in his absence - to two years in jail.
Mr Sonko maintains the charges were politically motivated to prevent him from running in next year's presidential election.
Police have surrounded his house and some social media sites have been blocked by the government.
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Former Olympic champion Cissé focused on Parispublished at 16:58 British Summer Time 2 June 2023
Former Olympic champion Cheick Cisse is on a mission to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, where he intends to repeat his success from Rio 2016 with the Ivory Coast.
Read MoreNo sign of RSF fleeing shelling - Khartoum residentspublished at 16:45 British Summer Time 2 June 2023
Richard Hamilton
BBC World Service NewsroomResidents of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, have reported more fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
It comes despite US sanctions imposed after the collapse of a humanitarian ceasefire.
People in the city said the army had resumed air strikes and was using more artillery, but with no sign that the RSF was retreating from the streets and homes it has occupied.
The military announced it had brought reinforcements to the capital from other parts of Sudan.
Analysts say the armed forces are expected to launch a massive offensive to clear the paramilitaries from the streets.
Drugs doled out by prison guards - Mozambique ministerpublished at 15:53 British Summer Time 2 June 2023
Jose Tembe
BBC News, Maputo
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Enabling drug use among prisoners leads them on to worse offences, Justice Minister Helena Kida says
Mozambique's justice minister says prison guards who help inmates get hold of drugs and other banned substances are "worse than the criminals" themselves.
"Alcohol, cigarettes, mobile phones and other equipment is always being found in the cells," Helena Kida said.
She made the comments during a lecture on human rights in the Special Women's Penitentiary, in the southern city of Matola, saying that all manner of illegal items are entering prisons, which would be impossible without the connivance of the guards.
"They have their rights and duties, as well as constitutional guarantees," she said, urging them to honour the oaths they had sworn.
Benin petrol prices soar as Nigeria moves to end subsidypublished at 15:01 British Summer Time 2 June 2023
Yusuf Akinpelu
BBC News, Lagos
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Benin import much of its fuel from its bigger neighbour (stock image)
Petrol prices have almost doubled in Benin after it was announced that fuel subsidies would be scrapped in next-door Nigeria.
Nigeria is one of Africa's oil giants and subsidised petroleum products are routinely smuggled into Benin, where they're mostly sold by the roadside and serve a large part of the population
Popularly called kpayo - which means "unoriginal" in Goun, a native language - it is cheaper than fuelling up at stations, local media reported.
Nigeria's new President Bola Tinubu had in his inauguration speech said fuel subsidy was "gone", an announcement that triggered panic-buying and a surge in fuel prices.
It was later clarified that it would be phased out in the coming weeks.
The Gambia hires US lawyers over syrup scandal - reportpublished at 14:12 British Summer Time 2 June 2023
Image source, Kuyateh FamilyImage caption, Musa Kuyateh and dozens of other children died after taking the Indian-made medicine
Reuters reports that the Gambia has hired a US law firm to consider legal action, external, after a government-funded investigation found that contaminated medicine imported from India were "very likely" to have caused the deaths of at least 70 children.
Justice Minister Dawda Jallow did not tell the news agency which entity they would make the claim against, not did Mr Jallow reveal the name of the law firm hired.
Reuters says the makers of the cough syrup, Maiden Pharmaceuticals, have denied any wrongdoing.
The Indian government says it found no toxins when it tested the medicines.
Yet tests by the WHO showed that the cough syrups contained two lethal toxins usually found in car break fluid.
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Social media shut over deadly Senegal protestspublished at 13:51 British Summer Time 2 June 2023
Police surround the home of the opposition leader, who faces a two-year jail term.
Read MoreTanzania declares Marburg outbreak overpublished at 13:20 British Summer Time 2 June 2023
Viv Marsh
BBC World Service Newsroom
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The Egyptian rousette fruit bat is a main carrier of the virus
Tanzania says its outbreak of the Marburg virus is over. Presence of the haemorrhagic fever was first confirmed in March, in the north-western Kagera region.
There were nine cases and six people died.
The World Health Organisation said its joint action with Tanzania on an emergency response had enabled the authorities to limit the impacts of a highly infectious disease.
The Marburg virus can have a fatality rate of up to 88%.
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Police release image of man found dead in planepublished at 12:55 British Summer Time 2 June 2023
The unknown man's body was found in the undercarriage of a plane at Gatwick Airport in December.
Read MoreGunfire around state TV building in Sudan capital - reportspublished at 12:31 British Summer Time 2 June 2023
Richard Hamilton
BBC World Service NewsroomMore shelling has been reported in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, as fighting between the country's warring generals intensifies.
Witnesses reported artillery fire around the state television building in the adjoining city of Omdurman.
The army announced it had brought reinforcements to the capital from other parts of Sudan.
Fighting has continued for nearly seven weeks, between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in Khartoum and the western region of Darfur, despite efforts to broker a humanitarian ceasefire.
On Thursday the US issued sanctions against four Sudanese companies and several individuals, after the collapse of a US-Saudi brokered truce.
Malawi court orders ex-ruling party to return donationspublished at 11:53 British Summer Time 2 June 2023
Peter Jegwa
Lilongwe, MalawiThe Malawi high court has ordered the former ruling party to return money it received as gifts from public bodies within the next 30 days.
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was ordered to pay back 14m Malawian kwacha ($1,400; £1,117) given to the party by public bodies during a fundraising event in 2019 in the run-up to elections that year.
The court on Thursday also ordered the former governing party to declare all the public financiers of the fundraising event which was held in July 2017.
The case was brought to court by civil society organisations which argued that political parties should not be receiving donations from public bodies.