A cable-stayed bridge opened in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania

A cable-stayed bridge, described as East Africa's longest, has opened in Tanzania's main city, Dar es Salaam, to ease over-crowding on ferries.

The 680m (2,230 ft) bridge links the city centre with southern neighbourhoods across the Indian Ocean.

Tanzania's leader John Magufuli hailed it as a "liberation" for residents in the city of more than four million.
At a ceremony to open the bridge, John Magufuli described the seven-lane cable-stayed bridge as the only one of its kind in central and East Africa.
"It has never been built before. Even if you go to Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo [and] Kenya, there is no bridge like this," he added.
He said it should be named Nyerere Bridge after Tanzania's first President Julius Nyerere, saying the idea was first mooted by him.
Julius Nyerere led Tanzania, or what was then known as Tanganyika, to independence from the UK in 1960.

The Chinese firm which built the $140m (£98m) structure says it is East Africa's longest cable-stayed bridge.

It is also the first toll road in Tanzania. The prices have yet to be set - vehicles and motorcycles will have to pay, pedestrians and bicycle will have free passage.