Africa highlights: Thursday 10 September 2015 as it happened

Summary

Ghana judges suspended over bribery allegations
New human-like species discovered in South Africa
ICC warrants for Kenyans unsealed
$100m African scientific research fund launched
Deadly gang warfare in South African mines
Nigeria’s north-west hit by floods

Live Reporting

Hugo Williams and Lucy Fleming

Man builds 'wooden skyscraper' in Mozambiquepublished at 17:54 BST 10 September 2015
BBC Africa producer tweets
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Homo Naledi explained, in 15 secondspublished at 17:37 BST 10 September 2015
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Uganda rally under way despite tear gaspublished at 16:50 BST 10 September 2015
Uganda's ex-Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi has succeeded in holding a campaign meeting for his possible presidential bid in the eastern town of Jinja, despite police earlier blocking his path and using tear gas to disperse his supporters (see earlier post at 14:55).
The privately owned Daily Monitor newspaper has been tweeting excerpts from his speech, in which he is outlining his bid to challenge incumbent President Yoweri Museveni in next year's elections:
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Police fire tear gas fired at ex-Uganda PM rallypublished at 14:55 BST 10 September 2015
Police in Uganda have fired teargas at crowds in the eastern town of Jinja, blocking an attempted rally by sacked Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, who has said he wants to challenge long-standing President Yoweri Museveni in elections next year.
Mr Mbabazi had planned to hold so-called "public consultations" over his possible presidential bid, but was blocked by police, who reportedly surrounded his car and detained his head of security.
A journalist for Uganda's NTV network has been tweeting photos from the scene:
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Mr Mbabazi, a former close ally of President Yoweri Museveni, was arrested while travelling to canvass support in July.
The government said that he violated public order laws by attempting to hold meetings without permission.

New human-like species unveiledpublished at 11:08 BST 10 September 2015
A BBC producer has been tweeting from a ceremony to unveil a new human-like species, whose remains were discovered in cave near Johannesburg in South Africa.
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Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa (pictured below, left) and Prof Lee Berger (below, right), who made the discovery, have both been speaking at the event.
"We are bound together in a common ancestry...We did not imagine that a new species would be unearthed telling us more about our own human journey than we ever knew before," Mr Ramaphosa is quoted as saying by the Guardian's David Smith, also at the ceremony.
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Prof Lee Berger said that the species had to be older than 2.5 million to 2.8 million years, but that they couldn't say exactly how old the fossils they discovered were.
Generations of bling at Zimbabwe's Victoria Fallspublished at 10:15 BST 10 September 2015
The Ndau people from Zimbabwe are well known for their artistic skills. Joe Mutoko comes from a third generation of jewellers and is keeping up the family tradition in the resort town of Victoria Falls by creating bespoke high-end jewellery, known as the Ndau Collection:
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