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In a televised Eid address, Tunisian President Kais Saied announced that he was considering rewriting his country’s constitution. The president said a committee would be established to redraft the existing framework and would conclude its work within days. He did not specify how the constitution would be changed, but said …

Ghanaian businessman, Dr Kofi Amoah has urged the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, to buy up the African continent and remove all its leaders. In a tweet earlier in the week, new boss of Twitter, Musk suggested he was going to buy Coca-Cola next, adding that he’d “put cocaine back” …

Armed men on Thursday abducted Ayuba Dodo Dakolo, a local leader from Nigeria’s Kaduna state, causing distress in the palace, local media reported. Mr Dakolo was abducted with three of his children and several other people on his farm on the outskirts of the village of Rijana in the northern …

At least six soldiers died in a rebel attack on a military outpost in southeastern Central African Republic, a local official and a hospital director said on Friday. According to a local government official, members of an alliance of armed groups known as the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC) …

Mosques and churches were set on fire by mobs in several locations in northern and southern Ethiopia on Thursday, local media reported. Violence erupted after at least 20 Muslims were killed and hundreds more injured while attending a funeral of a local religious figure on Tuesday in Gondar city in …

Queen Elizabeth has eulogised Kenya’s former President Mwai Kibaki as a “great statesman” who had “a lifelong record of service to the Kenyan people”, the BBC reported. Mr Kibaki died last Thursday aged 90 and his funeral service is ongoing at a stadium in the capital, Nairobi. He was Kenya’s …

Health officials and scientists in South Africa said the country may be entering a fifth COVID wave as there is rise in infections over the past 14 days. According to scientists and health officials, the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants may be responsible for this increase. Health Minister Joe Phaahla …

Several African Presidents and other world dignitaries are in Kenya to pay their last respects to former President Mwai Kibaki, who died last week at the age of 90. The South African Cyril Ramaphosa, as well as the South Sudanese Salva Kiir and the Ethiopian Sahle-Work Zewde confirmed their presence. …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a fresh request to address African Union (AU) heads of state, African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki said. In a tweet, Mr Faki said he received the request during a call with Ukraine’s foreign minister. I received a call from #Ukraine foreign minister @DymytroKuleba. He …

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has warned diplomats against any possible interference in the upcoming elections scheduled for February 2023. He issued the warning on Thursday, during an Iftar dinner with the diplomatic corps at the president’s residence in the capital, Abuja. “As Nigeria goes through this trajectory, I urge our …