President Saied issued two decrees, the first terminating Charfeddine’s duties and a second appointing Kamel Feki as Interior Minister, the presidency said in a statement on Friday night. Mr. Feki is a law graduate and a former executive of the Ministry of Finance. He has held the post of prefect of Tunis since late 2021. His nomination comes few hours… Read More

Hundreds of people gathered outside State House in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, on Friday for the funeral of footballer Christian Atsu who died last month in the earthquake in Turkey. Ghana’s president, Nana Akufo-Addo, was also present. Atsu’s widow, Marie-Claire Rupio, was overcome with emotion as she paid tribute to her husband. The 31-year-old spent most of his career playing… Read More

Gabon’s transport minister, Brice Paillat, resigned Thursday (Mar. 16), the presidency announced, a week after a ferry disaster claimed the lives of at least 21 people, with another 16 still missing. Relatives of the victims, opposition politicians and campaigning groups, had made repeated calls for the minister to depart. The government had already suspended four senior figures inside the merchant marine and… Read More

Senegal on Thursday repatriated 76 compatriots from Tunisia and neighboring Libya, the government announced on Friday. It is the latest sub-Saharan country to repatriate nationals after Tunisian President Kais Saied said on February 21 that the presence of Tunisian nationals in the country was a threat to the country’s security.  He said the presence of “hordes” of illegal immigrants from… Read More