Africa Live: As it happened

Have a listen to a special edition of the Africa Today podcast, marking a momentous day in Nigeria's recent history - presented by Bola Mosuro in London and Akwasi Sarpong in Abuja.

Gen Buhari's press office has sent out a statement asking for "sober" celebrations after he won the Nigerian election.

Buhari said anybody happy with the victory of the APC in the presidential election should not be involved in the "molestation of opponents or the destruction of their property".

Nigerian state TV didn't report the victory of opposition APC candidate Gen Buhari, reports BBC Monitoring. NTA TV broadcast the results of states where the incumbent PDP party was leading and then at 17:30 GMT went to a recorded programme called Telecom Today.

Gen Buhari's press officer caught the moment when President Jonathan called up the APC's presidential candidate to congratulate him on winning the 2015 election.

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PR Nigeria, which sends out messages on behalf of Nigeria's PDP party, has confirmed President Jonathan's phone call to Gen Buhari accepting defeat in the presidential election, reports the BBC's Will Ross from Abuja. "No more doubting Thomases" is their message.

A resident of Kaduna state, north of Nigeria's capital, Abuja, sent in these pictures to the BBC Hausa service via Whatsapp of people taking to the streets to celebrate Gen Buhari's victory in the presidential election.

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Since Nigeria's independence from the UK in 1960 there have been numerous coups and rigged elections.

This poll has brought to the surface dangerous religious and regional differences.

The outcome may be disputed by some and there is still a fear of violence. But many Nigerians feel for the first time they have the power to vote out a government that is not performing well.

Nigerians are so used to the idea that an incumbent should win the presidential election that President Goodluck Jonathan's failure to beat Gen Muhammadu Buhari needs some explaining.

So the BBC's Damian Zane has drawn up a list - at the top is the biometric voters cards that made the election harder to rig.

Finally the long wait is over. The opposition's General Muhammadu Buhari has won this pivotal contest. His party says President Goodluck Jonathan has called to concede victory.

This is a hugely significant moment in Nigeria's history. Never before has a sitting president lost an election and it feels as though Nigeria has turned a corner.

This APC supporter outside the opposition headquarters in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, told the BBC that Nigeria has swept out the old for new with the election of Gen Muhammadu Buhari. The broom is the symbol of Gen Buhari's APC party.

For more about the man likely be Nigeria's next president when official results are declared later read BBC Africa's profile of him.

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BBC Hausa's Yusuf Yakasai has just sent this photo of the crowds coming out on to the streets to celebrate opposition presidential candidate Gen Buhari's likely victory. It's in Kano - the largest city in northern Nigeria and a stronghold of Gen Buhari.

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The BBC's Chris Ewokor is outside the headquarters of Goodluck Jonathan's party, the PDP, in Abuja. He told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme "on ordinary days this it is usually a beehive of activity, but it is very quiet here now, like a ghost town".

A BBC graphic showing Nigeria's presidential election result at 16:45 GMT, when there were two states yet to declare. Delta has since been declared for President Goodluck Jonathan and Borno is expected to go in favour of opposition candidate Gen Buhari.

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Veteran Nigerian journalist Sola Odunfa has told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme: "In Lagos here I'm expecting a big party at the house of APC politician Bola Tinubu, who was instrumental in bringing about the coalition that backed Gen Buhari."

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Nigeria's opposition presidential candidate Gen Muhammadu Buhari has retweeted his wife Aisha, who appears to be implying that he has won the election.

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The BBC's Nkem Ifejika is outside the headquarters of Gen Buhari's party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). He told the BBC's Focus on Africa's radio programme that "there is music, music, music here, it is so loud with people celebrating."

From 17:30 GMT, Peter Okwoche in Abuja and Lebo Diseko will co-present a special edition of Focus on Africa TV on BBC World News, with the latest from Nigeria's presidential election.

The BBC's Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar will also be live from Kano, the northern Nigerian city where Gen Buhari's supporters are already celebrating.

Also on the programme: Catherine Byaruhanga from Uganda's capital, Kampala, on aftermath of the killing of a top anti-terrorism prosecutor.

Nigeria's opposition presidential candidate Gen Muhammadu Buhari is refraining from saying he has won the election in his tweets.

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BBC Focus on Africa is about to start on the World Service, bringing you the latest from Nigeria, where celebrations have already begun at opposition APC party headquarters although the official result from the elections are yet to be declared.

This is the team, including presenter Akwaksi Sarpong, preparing for the broadcast in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.

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There is still one more state - Borno - to be declared in Nigeria before the results of the presidential election are official.

The electoral commission, Inec, quotes its chairman Attahiru Jega in this tweet: "Under the circumstances, it's safe to assume that we will reconvene around 8pm when the results will arrive"- Jega #Nigeriadecides"

That means a two-hour delay before Gen Buhari is likely to be declared the winner.

According to the head of the BBC's Hausa Service Mansur Liman, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has called Muhammadu Buhari to concede election victory and to congratulate him

With only one state to be declared in the Nigeria presidential election the results are:

• APC's Muhammadu Buhari: 14,954,400
• PDP's Goodluck Jonathan: 12,827,522.

The only state to declare is the north-eastern state of Borno, which has been at the heart of the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency.

The returning officer for Nigeria's southern Delta state is reading the results for his state at the electoral centre in Abuja.

BBC Afrique producer Genevieve Sagno has interviewed Nina Miskina, a rapper originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, about her controversial lyrics.

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She said that her music is influenced by her difficult past - including the eight months she spent working as a prostitute in Belgium.

"We need more female hip-hop artists because there aren't enough points of view from women reflected in rap," the singer said.

South Africa's Channel 24 predicts comedian Trevor Noah may lose his job as the host of the Daily Show before he has even begun. A trawl through his old tweets show some dubious jokes.

Here is one of the tweets he is being criticised for:

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The BBC's Charlotte Attwood in Kano says despite the fact that there are still election results to come from three states in Nigeria the streets of the northern city are already packed with supporters of opposition presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari.

Earlier, newspaper vendors in Kano were doing a roaring trade.

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tweets: "A guy holds a traditional broom, symbol of #Buhari's APC party as # Kano celebrates his win. #Nigeria"

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Investors have told Bloomberg News that the market will react positively to a Gen Buhari win in the Nigerian election. But there is a warning that this is dependent on President Jonathan accepting defeat.

Francois Conradie, a political analyst at South Africa's NKC Independent Economistss, said that if Gen Buhari wins, he expects to see the most trouble in the oil-rich Delta region and in the northern states currently controlled by Mr Jonathan's PDP.

Yacouba Ouedraogo, who has been covering Nigeria's election for BBC Afrique, tweets in French that after former President Olusegun Obasanjo, if Gen Buhari wins he will become the second person to lead Nigeria as a military man and civilian.

He also included this image in his tweet, in reference to the calm conduct of electoral chairman Attahiru Jega, who is being much admired on social media.

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A man in Nigeria's oil capital, Port Harcourt in the south of the country, looks on at an oil tanker carrying fuel that exploded after an accident. Officials at the scene said one person was killed, the European Photopress Agency reports.

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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has confirmed he has received the report looking into the shooting dead of 34 striking miners by police in Marikana in 2012. But his office said he won't look at it until he is back from a visit to Algeria.

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The killings reminded some South Africans of how the apartheid regime dealt with protesters.

Nigerians celebrate the anticipated victory of opposition presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari in the city of Kaduna, north of the capital Abuja, by doing stunts on their scooters.

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A South African reading project has won the world's largest children's literature award. Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa produced a series of books in different African languages.

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They also formed a network of reading clubs to encourage children to read and inspire parents, grandparents and teachers to read with them. For more details go to the BBC News story.

BBC Hausa Service editor Mansur Liman predicts that the results from the northern states of Borno and Sokoto will cancel whatever majority is returned from Delta in the south for the PDP's Goodluck Jonathan.

He says opposition APC candidate Gen Buhari is on course to win Nigeria's 2015 general elections.

Here is a BBC graphic showing the Nigerian presidential results by state up to 15:30 GMT today:

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South Africans are still excited at the news that Trevor Noah will host the Daily Show after John Stewart leaves. This is the headline of The Star newspaper in Johannesburg.

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tweets about the slow announcement of Nigeria's presidential election: "After this ordeal, I'll need fried plantain and/or pounded yam and afang soup. #NigeriaDecides"

There are only three more states to be declared - and there is now a short break in proceedings.

The World Health Organization has released its latest data on Ebola cases. They counted 14,764 confirmed cases across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone two days ago.

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With only three more states to be declared in the Nigeria presidential election the results are:

• APC's Muhammadu Buhari: 14,233,564
• PDP's Goodluck Jonathan: 11,463,918

Influential Nigerian tweeter and columnist Tolu Ogunlesi tweets: "It's a historic day in Nigeria. And time, in my books, for a new hashtag: #NigeriaHasDecided"

Tunisia have avoided a ban from the 2017 football Africa Cup of Nations after apologising to the Confederation of African Football (Caf) for accusing the governing body of bias.

Caf has, however, rejected the Carthage Eagles' appeal against a $50,000 (£33,673) fine for violent conduct by its players. For more details go to BBC Africa football has the story.

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tweets: "BBC Focus on Africa at 1500GMT has extended programme on Nigeria election with @akwasisarpong in Nigeria and @bbcBola in London @BBCAfrica"

tweets from the Nigeria's counting centre in Abuja: "Everyone furiously calculating results. Is it over? #Nigeriadecides @mdliman @BBCAfrica @bbc_whys"

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Gen Muhammadu Buhari's campaign spokesman, Garba Shehu, has told the BBC that the APC party is in a celebratory mood with just five states to be declared in Nigeria's presidential election.

But he added: "We're not taking anything for granted because of the kind of government we have. We're waiting for the official declaration."

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tweets: "Nearly all the votes in Yobe gone to APC, 421k more than PDP. One of the 3 in state of emergency. Defied Boko Haram to vote. #NigeriaDecides"

Nigerian opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari has taken a lead that is difficult to overcome.

There is only one more stronghold of the PDP's Goodluck Jonathan to declare - Delta state. At the moment Gen Buhari has 13,763,769 votes compared to President Jonathan's 10,866,249.

The votes from Borno and Sokoto states have not come through and they are key APC states.

This is Alice Mansaray who told the BBC "everything has just stopped since Ebola".

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She lost her sister to Ebola. Since the outbreak she hasn't been able to go to school and she can't even see her friends. People across Sierra Leone have been telling us how it's been affecting their wages, love lives and football viewing.

The BBC's Jim Saleh on the Nigeria election desk says with 30 states, plus the Federal Territory Capital Abuja, so far declared the presidential election results are:

• APC's Muhammadu Buhari: 13,314,482
• PDP's Goodluck Joathan: 10,840 723

The remaining states are: Edo, Delta, Sokoto, Yobe, Borno and Taraba.

The BBC team in Abuja has sent these photos of Nigerian police officers in the rain outside the electoral count centre listening to the presidential election results on local radio.

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They are making their own notes of the vote tallies.

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Nigerian men watch as the election commission announces presidential election results on a television at an outdoor butchers in the northern city of Kano, a stronghold for opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari of the APC.

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Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper is reporting that a Chinese woman at the centre of a racism row has been freed on bail.

Zhao Yang is charged with being in Kenya illegally and of running a business in the capital, Nairobi, without a valid licence, it reports.

Ms Yang was arrested after the newspaper published a report alleging that her Chinese restaurant in the city ran a "no-African after 5pm" policy.

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The restaurant and Ms Yang have strongly denied the allegations.

Aspiring Fifa presidential candidate Jordan's Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein is in Zimbabwe canvassing support ahead of the elections in May. He met Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, and is currently having a meeting with the Zimbabwe Football Association boss.

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He told the BBC's Brian Hungwe in Harare: "Africa is extremely important. It is such a wonderful continent with so much potential. I also come from a country and region developing in football… My whole project and platform is to develop and to take our talent to world class football."

Nigeria's electoral commission, Inec, dismisses reports in a tweet that the security detail for its chairman Attahiru Jega has been removed: "Contrary to reports, Prof. Jega's security has not been withdrawn #NigeriaDecides"

Nigeria's electoral counting centre has resumed the announcement of presidential results. With 28 states declared and nine to go, the tally is:

• APC's Muhammadu Buhari: 11,444,062
• PDP's Goodluck Joathan: 10,349,929.

Karim Wade, the son of Senegal's former president, is still making headlines here one week after he was sentenced to six years in prison for corruption. He also received a $230m (£150m) fine.

He was tried by a special anti-corruption court. Senegal's Sud Quotidien paper says even if his appeal to the Supreme Court is successful or if he receives a presidential pardon, he still has many months to spend in prison.

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Here are some comments on BBC Africa Facebook about Nigeria's tightly contested election:

Nigerian Mbamali Chukwuebuka Vincent posts: "I've given up on who becomes our President for the next four years to avoid high blood pressure at my tender age of 29. Whatever happens, we will all suffer it together."

Ethiopian Temkin Sheref Sh says: "I'm really proud of you my Nigerian brothers and sisters. My advice to you is don't let others take your vote from you."

Nigeria's electoral commission is on a break. With 11 more states to go, this is how the main contenders stand:

• APC's Muhammadu Buhari: 10,454,137
• PDP's Goodluck Joathan: 9,953, 432.

And here's a photo of PDP agent Godsday Orubebe, who disrupted proceedings at the counting centre earlier when he began shouting at the chairman, accusing him of bias.

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tweets about the China-Tunisia football friendly: "Half-time: China 0-1 #Tunisia in an international friendly - Mohamed Ali Moncer (or is it Manser) with the goal."

Uganda's chief prosecutor Mike Chibita says "open war" has been declared on the judiciary following the killing of the lead prosecutor in the trial of 13 men accused of a deadly al-Shabab attack in 2010, the state-owned New Vision newspaper quotes him as saying.

"The case will continue despite this happening. It was an open war on the judiciary, one which would be fought for the betterment of society," Mr Chibita said, after visiting the crime scene.

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A list containing the names of 175 Kenyans, including cabinet ministers and civil servants who were allegedly involved in corruption, is being debated in parliament in Nairobi. They have already been forced to step aside for 60 days to allow investigations to be conducted.

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Twenty-six Nigerian states have declared their results in the presidential poll. The Rivers State result has given a big boost to President Goodluck Jonathan. Gen Muhammadu Buhari's lead has now narrowed to just over 500,000 votes.

Nigeria's electoral commission chairman, Attahiru Jega, has said the fact-finding team sent to southern Rivers state found there were some voting irregularities with the poll but not enough "to warrant a cancellation of the election".

Results just announced for the state, where a dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed, give incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan a huge boost with 1,487,075 votes, his rival Gen Muhammadu Buhari got 69,238 votes.

tweets from Nigeria's electoral counting centre in Abuja: "Returning officer from #RiversState making the collation center lively by cracking jokes. Tension eased after Orubebe"

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The returning officer for Rivers state has got the audience at the Nigeria electoral centre in the capital, Abuja, laughing as he says he cannot read his own writing.

Nigerians crowd around a newspaper stand earlier this morning to read news of the presidential election result in the oil capital of Port Harcourt in the southern Niger Delta region.

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tweets from Abuja where the results of Nigeria's presidential election are being announced: "Dapper member of Buhari's team waits for final result."

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South Africa's top cartoonist Zapiro has paid tribute to Trevor Noah's "Midas touch" for the Mail and Guardian newspaper.

For a more detailed look at the man who is taking over from Jon Stewart as host of the The Daily Show, read BBC's Milton Nkosi's profile of the Soweto-born comedian.

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Twelve states yet to be declared in the Nigerian presidential election - here are the latest results:

• APC's Muhammadu Buhari: 10,384,899

• PDP's Goodluck Jonathan: 8,466,357.

And here's the scene at the counting centre in Abuja:

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tweets about Nigeria's electoral count: "Daily Trust's cartoonist on the number crunching"

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BBC Hausa's Yusuf Yakasai says Nigerians in the northern city of Kano are closely monitoring the announcement of presidential results on radio sets and their mobile phones.

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tweets about the results from the home state of Nigeria's incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan: "APC gets 5194 in Bayelsa. PDP got 361209. So APC got less than 2%. Wow. #NigeriaDecides"

tweets about Nigeria's presidential poll results: "A titanic battle in Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria. Although an opposition state but the ruling party did well #Nigeriadecides"

The opposition APC took 792,460 votes and the ruling PDP 632,327.

Nelson Mandela's grandson Mandla has been found guilty of assault, South Africa's Herald newspaper reports.

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He was accused of assaulting a teacher and butting him on the head with a firearm after he crashed into a car driven by one of his friends in 2013. He will be sentenced at a later date.

The state-by-state announcements of Nigeria's presidential poll results have now resumed.

The commission looking into the shooting dead of 34 striking miners by police in Marikana, South Africa, is due to hand over its report to President Jacob Zuma today. The killings in August 2012 reminded some South Africans of how the apartheid regime dealt with protests.

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The campaign group Amnesty International has called on President Zuma to urgently make the Marikana findings public. It says that the government "must... ensure full accountability and the re-establishment of lawful and impartial policing as a matter of urgency".

Nigeria's electoral chief, Attahiru Jega, calmly dismissed the complaints of PDP agent Godswill Peter Orubebe. He said he would only receive complaints through the proper channels and added that he was not releasing results to the opposition APC before declaring them publicly.

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"Let us be careful about what we say or do and let us not dispute a process that has begun peacefully," he said. Addressing Mr Orubebe, he added: "You're a statesman in your own right, you should be careful about your public conduct." After which the audience broke into applause.

Nigeria's PDP party agent Elder Orubebe is refusing to leave the microphone at the electoral counting centre in Abuja and will not allow the electoral commission chairman to respond to his complaints.

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There is chaos here at the Inec collation centre in Nigeria's capital as the PDP party of incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan makes a protest accusing the chairman of the electoral commission of taking sides. He is accusing Attahiru Jega of bias and entertaining complaints from the opposition APC but not from the PDP.

PDP agent Elder Orubebe has told the chairman of Nigeria's electoral commission Attahiru Jega that he is '"partial" and "selective", he added "we cannot take it you are tribalistic, we will not allow".

A spokesman at the Nigeria vote counting centre in the capital, Abuja, is urging patience. He said that returning officers have to come to the centre in person, which accounted for the delay. The Inec chairman, Attahiru Jega, has taken over the mic and has also apologised for the delay.

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The BBC's Alex Duval Smith, in Segou to cover a story on farming along the banks of Mali's River Niger, sent in this photo of the boats that carry fishermen and market traders and customers.

It's an hour since Nigeria's electoral chief, Attahiru Jega, was supposed to continue announcing results from Nigeria's election, but he has not turned up yet.

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The BBC's Jimeh Saleh, running our Nigeria election desk, says people on Twitter are getting anxious. "Apart from being a professor of political science, Jega must also be a professor of African Time," tweets Je Suis Tabawa. Another Nigeria tweeter, Hussaini Jibrin, says: "Where is Jega please? My generator is getting tired."

Nigeria's army says it has freed women, children and elderly people "locked up" in homes by fleeing militant Islamists at their former headquarters in north-eastern Gwoza town.

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It is not clear how many have been released. The army said in a statement that those rescued were weak and in need of medical treatment. The army recaptured Gwoza from Boko Haram militants last week after a regional offensive.

Ugandan human rights lawyer Nick Opiyo has been reflecting on the life of the prosecutor Joan Kagezi, who was shot dead in Kampala on Monday. He told the BBC's Newsday radio programme, , that there was no better professional prosecutor and she "was one of the most unassuming prosecutors I knew".

On the road between Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, and the town of Afgoye, a man is snapped milking a camel this morning.

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We're expecting a statement from the Confederation of African Football (Caf) later which should clear the way for Tunisia to compete in qualifying for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.

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Remember the Carthage Eagles were threatened with a ban if they didn't apologise for their claims of bias from Caf, after their controversial exit from this year's tournament in Equatorial Guinea.

On Monday, the vice-president of the Tunisian Football Federation said a deal had been agreed. We're now waiting for the details to be published.

It appears Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan's PDP party is crying foul, reports the BBC's Will Ross in the capital, Abuja.

Wale Oladipo, the national secretary of the party, has been on television saying there have been irregularities in many areas including under-age voting in the north, where many states have supported the opposition APC candidate Gen Muhammdu Buhari.

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He added that in Rivers state in the south, where the APC has alleged there was electoral fraud, the vote was fine.

In public the message from both sides of Nigeria's political divide is the same: We have won. But behind closed doors there are long faces in the President Goodluck Jonathan's PDP camp.

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It looks like Muhammadu Buhari's lead may well prove too wide to be bridged. Unofficial results from most of the remaining states, which national newspapers are already publishing in contravention of the electoral law, show even if there are eyebrow raising turn outs from Mr Jonathan's strongholds in the Niger Delta, he is still in trouble.

But this is Nigeria and predictions are dangerous. The biggest surprise would be if the result is not disputed by the losing side.

Zola Tsotsi, the chairman on South Africa's troubled power company Eskom, has resigned. He had been accused of interfering in operational matters.

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South Africa's Business Day newspaper is reporting that Mr Tsotsi fell out with the government's Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown. The resignation has been welcomed by the National Union of Mineworkers saying it hoped it would bring stability to Eskom.

tweets about what is on the political menu in Mozambique, including an opposition federal proposal: "#Mozambique's Parliament opens today with an agenda of 25 points including Renamo's devolution bill, 2015 State budget & Gvnt 5 year-plan."

Today's scheduled hearing in the case of 13 men accused of taking part in two bombings in the Ugandan capital in 2010 by the Somali Islamists al-Shabab has been suspended.

This comes after lead prosecutor Joan Kagezi was gunned down on Monday evening. Security in the Kampala has been increased. The judge asked for the suspects not to be transferred to the court until the authorities assess the situation surrounding the case.

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At the moment Nigeria's ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari has more votes than incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan:

• Gen Buhari's All Progressives Congress (APC) party: 8,520,436 votes

• President Jonathan's People's Democratic Party (PDP): 6,488,210 votes.

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It was a nail-biting night for Nigerians, as the head the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec), Attahiru Jega, continued to announce results from Nigeria's presidential election - so far results from 19 states and the Federal Capital Territory have been declared. He is due to continue reading results from the other 17 states at 10:00 local time (09:00 GMT).

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Today's African proverb: "The best bed a man can sleep on is peace". A Somali proverb sent in by Shafi'i Abdullahi in Khartoum, Sudan.

Welcome to the BBC's Africa Live page - with final results due in Nigeria's presidential election it promises to be a busy day.