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Will Ross That's all from the BBC Africa Live team for now.
Africa editor, BBC World Service Until we're back, there'll be an automated service here, plus you can get the latest news on our website or listen to our podcasts - Africa Daily and Focus on Africa.
The United Nations has called on members of parliament in The Gambia to withdraw a bill lifting the ban on female genital mutilation (FGM). Our African proverb of the day:
The Gambia's parliament began examining the legislation on Monday. The fastest eater ends up with a burned mouth."
FGM was banned in The Gambia in 2015. Click here to send us your African proverbs.
Influential Muslim clerics have been pushing for the ban to be repealed, while women's rights activists want it to remain. And we leave you with this shot of a protest held by the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion in South Africa.
The UN says more than three-quarters of Gambian women and girls aged between 15 and 49 have undergone FGM.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights described the bill as abhorrent.
It said it was crucial that The Gambia continued to protect the rights and dignity of all, especially women and girls.
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