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Florence Kambua has no choice but to salvage waste from a dump site in Kenya's capital to survive.

Two women tourists died after being attacked while swimming near the Egyptian city of Hurghada.

The next Africa Cup of Nations will be played in Ivory Coast in 2024, and not 2023, because of weather concerns.

South Africa striker Thembi Kgaltana says Monday's Women's Africa Cup of Nations match against reigning champions Nigeria will provide a major boost for women's football in Africa.

Distraught medical students who fled Ukraine are told their distance-learning degrees are not valid.

Hosts Morocco opened the Women's Africa Cup of Nations with a 1-0 win over debutants Burkina Faso in the capital Rabat.

Police free 77 people from confinement in a church in south-western Nigeria.

Tens of thousands of South Africans head for the Durban July after a two-year break for Covid.

Rallies take place in Tobruk, Tripoli and other cities amid anger at the country's political deadlock.

The Women's Africa Cup of Nations kicks off in Morocco on 2 July.

In 2020, the ����ý revealed that vast quantities of protected rosewood were being trafficked from Senegal.

The "Egyptian King" has won as many, if not more, plaudits for his persona and conduct off the pitch.

The Women's Africa Cup of Nations returns after a four-year absence, expanded to 12 teams and with World Cup qualification at stake.

Zambia's 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations hopes are dealt a major blow as captain Barbra Banda is ruled out for medical reasons on the eve of the tournament.

Some 60% of the country's population faces severe acute food insecurity amid food aid cuts, aid workers say.

That's all for now from the ����ý Africa Live team this week. There will be an automated news feed until we're back on Monday morning at .

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And we leave you with this picture of a brass band playing in honour of murdered independence hero Patrice Lumumba in the Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of the burial of his last known remains. It is one of our favourites from our gallery of the week's best photos:

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Jose Tembe
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Two of the main petrol suppliers in Mozambique have stopped selling fuel.

The supply at Puma and Vivo Energy pumps began dwindling two weeks ago.

Fuel prices in Mozambique are regulated – and the firms have indicated they cannot afford to sell diesel or petrol until the government raises the pump price.

According to the ministry that regulates the sector, the new prices should have been published 15 days ago.

Petrol stations fear government debt may exceed the guarantees needed from banks to import the fuel.

Azeezat Olaoluwa
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Sierra Leone has knocked three zeros off its banknotes with the launch of a new currency.

The leone is being replaced by the “new leone”, so an old 10,000 leone note has the same value as a 10 new leone bill (the equivalent of just less than $1 or £0.60).

Coins are also going to be re-introduced.

According to Ibrahim Stevens, deputy governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone, the currency redenomination will not affect the purchasing power of the currency.

But some are afraid their financial situation could worsen.

Many scrambled to change their money into US dollars in the build-up to the official release of the new leones on Friday.

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Banks are expected to work till late into Friday evening in order to allow more people to change their cash.

The West African country’s economy is unstable because of rising inflation, foreign exchange fluctuations and a huge dependence on imports.

The prices of food items have more than doubled in the last six months.

Ishaq Khalid
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The first translation of the Quran into the Igbo language has been published in Nigeria.

It was launched at an event in the capital, Abuja, at the Ansar-Ud-Deen Mosque, where Muhammad Murtala Chukwuemeka told the ����ý it took him five years to translate the sacred Islamic text into Igbo from Arabic.

Igbo is primarily spoken in south-eastern Nigeria, where the majority of people tend to be Christians. Nigeria is Africa’s most-populous nation and has a mainly Muslim population in the north, with the south being largely Christian.

However some members of the Igbo community follow other religions - and not all Igbos live in the south-east.

Mr Chukwuemeka converted to Islam in 1989 and later studied to become an Islamic cleric.

He says he has printed hundreds of copies of the Quran in Igbo as he wants to spread the “message of Allah” to his Igbo brothers and sisters.

The Quran has already been translated into Hausa and Yoruba - the two other most-widely spoken languages in Nigeria.