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Tunisian interior minister fired after migrant boat disaster
Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed fired Interior Minister Lotfi Brahem, a government statement said, after one of the worst migrant boat accidents...
Uganda security minister, police chief sacked
Uganda sacked its security minister and police chief after authorities faced a wave of criticism for failing to solve a series of...
Police commanders in Zimbabwe fired
Zimbabwe fired more than 30 senior police commanders as part of cleaning up the image of the force, the state-owned Herald newspaper...
Shots fired to disperse Kenya opposition supporters
Kenyan police fired in the air to disperse hundreds of opposition supporters outside the airport in Nairobi, a Reuters witness said.
Despite...
Senior Tanzanian officials dismissed
Tanzanian President John Magufuli sacked two senior officials after they failed to recall immediately how much money was allocated by government in...
Top Nigerian civil servant sacked
President Muhammadu Buhari sacked Nigeria's most senior civil servant after an investigation into graft allegations, the highest profile casualty of the anti-corruption...
Shots fired at UN convoy outside Tripoli
Gunmen shot a United Nations convoy on a coastal road west of the Libyan capital, Tripoli in an incident that could complicate...
Gambia Chief of Defence Staff fired
Gambian President Adama Barrow replaced the head of the military, a pillar of his predecessor's repressive government and dismissed a number of...
Guinea ministers fired following deadly protests
Guinea President Alpha Conde fired three ministers, according to a decree read on state television on Monday, following violent protests over a...
Ivory Coast president dismisses heads of army, police and gendarmes
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara dismissed the heads of the army, police and gendarmes on Monday after a two-day military mutiny that...
Malian defence minister fired
Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has fired Defence Minister Tieman Hubert Coulibaly after suspected Islamist militants briefly seized the village of Boni...
South Sudan president fires ministers allied to rival Machar
South Sudan President Salva Kiir fired six ministers allied to his long-time rival Riek Machar late on Tuesday, widening a political rift...
South Sudan vice president sacks minister after “defection”
South Sudan Vice President Riek Machar has fired a minister who he said had defected to his long-time rival President Salva Kiir's...
South Sudan vice president sacks minister after “defection”
South Sudan Vice President Riek Machar has fired a minister who he said had defected to his long-time rival President Salva Kiir's...
