Image source, ReutersTunisia's Ons Jabeur women's semi-final match against Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka has started at Wimbledon, the lawn tennis tournament in London.
The score has been even so far in the first set, but BBC Sport says one gets the sense that Jabeur has had the best of the opening half an hour.
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Anthony Irungu
BBC News, Nairobi
Image source, Getty ImagesThe protests were sparked by government plans to raise tax
The number of those who died in Kenya on Wednesday in protests about the high cost of living has risen from six to 13, according to a human rights watchdog in the country.
The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) says 10 people were killed by police, including a minor, while three people died in intercommunal violence caused by the protests in the west of the country.
The KHRC is investigating reports that the police failed to intervene in the intercommunal clashes, Davis Malombe, who heads the commission, said.
Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki says 312 people, including an opposition MP, were arrested during the demonstrations and will be charged.
“Security officers are directed to enforce the law firmly and decisively and deal with all criminals, including economic saboteurs, looters and vandals who are destroying public and private property,” the minister said in a statement.
He also expressed the government’s intention to arrest opposition leaders Raila Odinga and Martha Karua, who called for the demonstrations.
But the opposition remains defiant, with a senior member of the coalition, Edwin Sifuna, telling Kenya's Citizen TV on Thursday that the protests will continue next week on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Image source, AFPAbdul Fattah al-Sisi is hosting the talks in Egypt's capital, Cairo
Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has urged the warring parties in Sudan to stop fighting for talks and to ensure safe passage for the delivery of humanitarian aid.
During his opening speech at a summit on the conflict, which is being held in Cairo, he said they were the top two priorities:
Quote MessageFirstly, calling on the warring factions to cease escalation and to start without further ado on serious negotiations that aim at reaching an immediate and sustainable ceasefire.
Quote MessageSecondly, calling on all Sudanese parties to facilitate the passage of humanitarian aid, to provide safe passage to deliver this aid to the areas most in need inside Sudan, and to establish a mechanism to provide needed protection to the humanitarian aid convoys and the staff of the international relief agencies to help them do their jobs.”
The summit is also being attended by some of Sudan's neighbours, such as South Sudan, Chad and the Central African Republic.
The rival military factions have sent delegations to the summit, but previous regional and international peace efforts have failed.
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Image source, Getty ImagesIsrael Adesanya is an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweight champion
Nigerian-born mixed martial arts (MMA) champion Israel Adesanya has posted images on Twitter of him training US tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg.
It comes head of a potential cage match between the boss of Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and his rival Elon Musk - the South African-born entrepreneur who now heads Twitter.
“We both have South Africans to deal with,” Adesanya quipped on Thursday, along with four photos of the duo training together, external.
The 33-year-old fighter, who moved to New Zealand as a child, is scheduled to take on South African Dricus du Plessis in a Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweight fight in September.
Adesanya travelled to Mr Zuckerberg's residence in northern California on Saturday to start their training sessions, according to media reports.
Mr Zuckerberg, 39, and Mr Musk, 52, agreed to their cage bout over social media last month.
The date of the fight is yet to be confirmed but the pair are currently embroiled in another fight with Meta launching an alternative to Twitter last week.
The Threads app has so far signed up more than 70 million people.
There are concerns the RSF is targeting specific ethnic groups in the West Darfur region.
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Image source, SA governmentTwenty-one lorries have been set ablaze this week alone
The authorities in South Africa are trying to clamp down on the torching of lorries on major motorways. So far this week 21 big trucks have been set ablaze.
The arson coincides with the second anniversary of violent nationwide riots in which more than 350 people were killed.
The government insists the lorry attacks are not related, even though there are similarities in the modus operandi.
Police Minister Bheki Cele has said investigators are closing in on 12 people who have been identified as the instigators.
“They’ve been identified by names, some of them by address and some of them by the cars they drive,” Mr Cele said on Wednesday.
Several motives including economic sabotage, robbery and labour disputes are being investigated.
Soldiers had been deployed to strategic areas where arson attacks had been reported, the police minister added.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has described them as "economic sabotage" because the trucks were burnt "on the main artery of our country".
It was the arrest of former President Jacob Zuma for contempt of court that sparked the arrest in 2021 – and led to claims that his allies were seeking to overthrow South Africa's young democracy.
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Image source, ReutersProtests were held nationwide over the rising cost of living and government tax plans
A Kenyan doctor has told the BBC that his hospital has treated 53 children for free after tear gas was thrown into their classroom by police during protests on Wednesday.
"As a parent, you positively and fearfully react, which compelled me to act without asking for money," Dr Aron Shikuku, from the private Eagle Nursing Home hospital in the capital, Nairobi, told the BBC’s Newsday programme.
Healthcare in Kenya can be quite costly with only 19% of the population having access to any form of medical insurance - according to the latest statistics from 2018.
The country's public hospitals are usually severely understaffed and underequipped while the cost of getting treatment at a private hospital can often lead to crippling medical debt.
Dr Shikuku said the children were discharged after being treated for shock and breathing problems as a result of the tear gas.
He said they were being monitored as they settle back into their school, which is in Kangemi, a slum area in the north-west of the city.
There were demonstrations around the country called by the opposition over the rising cost of living, but they turned deadly.
Six people were killed, the authorities said.
Several different efforts are underway to end the Sudan conflict, which could destabilise its neighbours.
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Egypt is set to host a summit of Sudan's neighbours to discuss ways to end the conflict between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Fighting has been going on for nearly three months, triggering a major humanitarian crisis in the region.
The rival military factions are sending delegations to the summit, but previous regional and international attempts to make peace have failed.
On Wednesday, Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met in Cairo to discuss the crisis.
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Image source, AFPMany Burkinabè seek refuge in Ghana but cross back home occasionally to tend to their farms
Ghana has been urged by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) to halt the expulsion of refugees from Burkina Faso.
It said it was concerned by reports that hundreds of Burkinabè citizens - mainly women and children - had been deported from Ghana after fleeing there to escape violence in their homeland.
The UNHCR said it was ready to provide more support to Ghana to address the needs of refugees.
More than two million people in Burkina Faso have been forced from their homes by an Islamist insurgency that is spread across several countries in Africa's Sahel region.
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Image source, Getty ImagesThere are demonstrations around the country over the rising cost of living and tax hikes.
Read MoreKaaps is a language widely spoken in the bleak townships of Cape Town, South Africa. It’s often denigrated as a lesser form of Afrikaans – the language that was used as a tool of white supremacy during the apartheid era. Spoken predominately by working class people on the Cape Flats, Kaaps is associated with negative stereotypes – its speakers denigrated as uneducated, "ghetto" layabouts involved in gang culture.
But a new, burgeoning movement led by hip-hop artists, academics, writers and film makers is actively changing that perception. They want to reclaim Afrikaaps to restore the linguistic, cultural and racial dignity of a formerly disenfranchised people. The writer Lindsay Johns travels to Cape Town to meet the activists determined to assert the worth and pride of the people who speak Afrikaaps.
Presenter: Lindsay Johns Producers: Audrey Brown and Tim Mansel Mixed by Neil Churchill Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross Series Editor: Penny Murphy
(Image: Children in Lavender Hill, a township on the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa. Credit: Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
We'll be back on Thursday morning
That's all from the BBC Africa Live team for now, we will be back on Thursday morning.
In the meantime, you can get the latest updates on the BBC News website and listen to the Focus on Africa podcast.
A reminder of the day's wise words:
Quote MessageA weakling drinks muddied water.
A Kikuyu proverb from Kenya sent by Obe Adeniyi in Lagos, Nigeria
And we leave you with this photo of Tunisian tennis ace Ons Jabeur who's through to the Wimbledon semi-finals in the UK:
Image source, AFPBBC Arabic's Sudan Lifeline radio
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias deny any role in recent violence in West Darfur, slamming allegations by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that they waged a massacre.
According to HRW, 28 members of the Masalit tribe were killed , externaland dozens of civilians were injured by the RSF and allies who then destroyed the town of Misterei in May.
But Mustafa Mohamed Ibrahim, who is an adviser to the RSF top brass, tells the BBC the clashes there were part of an ongoing civil war between local tribes and the Masalit tribes "which is old and renewed".
Rights groups have documented numerous abuses in the region, where Arab militias have been targeting non-Arabs. People in El Geneina and surrounding areas have suffered some of the worst violence since this conflict began.
Mr Ibrahim says the RSF had no base in Misterei, and accuses HRW of relying on biased sources and having no presence on the ground.
Investigations by the government and international organisations are ongoing to establish the truth and work towards resolving the long-standing conflict in the region.
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The vibrant school uniform is also inspired by designs that originated in Africa
Education in much of Africa is largely based on post-colonial Eurocentric or American curriculums that teach little about African history and culture, while what there is, is often skewed.
Children in Freedom School is an Afrocentric school in Kenya taking a different approach to how children learn. They aim to mentor children to embrace who they are and to own their African heritage.
"We'll tell them, for example, about Mali emperor Mansa Musa who has been dead for roughly 700 or 800 years and yet is still the richest man that has ever lived," said founder Dr Utheri Kanayo.
The idea for the school was sparked when Dr Kanayo decided to focus on the education of children after a brief teaching stint, at the University of Cambridge in the UK, saw her base her educational research on the African continent.
In 2013, Dr Kanayo and her husband quit their jobs in the UK and moved to Kenya.
The school originally started as a charity but slowly morphed into a scholarship and mentorship programme. Now, they focus on teaching African history, culture and literature alongside basic education like mathematics.
“If we can start teaching children from when they are small, then we don’t have to decolonize minds in the future,” Dr Kanayo.
They were recently shortlisted for the World's Best School Prize, putting them among the top 10 schools worldwide in the Overcoming Adversity category.
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Image source, Getty ImagesTheir vessel sank trying to reach the Canary Islands
Prosecutors in the Canary Islands have filed a lawsuit alleging that negligence by the Spanish authorities may have led to the deaths of 36 migrants who tried to reach the territory in an inflatable boat last month.
The vessel sank after waiting 10 hours for help.
Prosecutors say crimes such as failure to provide assistance may have been committed.
Spain's coastal rescue service has defended itself against accusations of negligence after it was reported that one of its boats was just one hour away from the migrant vessel.
A Moroccan boat picked up the 24 survivors.
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