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Nigerian finance minister resigns
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari accepted the resignation of Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun, who she stepped down over allegations of using a forged...
New Egyptian defence minister
Egypt named a new minister of defence in a cabinet sworn in on Thursday by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to mark the...
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...
New DR Congo interior minister
Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila appointed the head of his political party as interior minister to oversee security in the...
Former Egyptian interior minister arrested
Former Egyptian Interior Minister Habib al-Adly was arrested after failing to hand himself over to authorities after being sentenced to seven years...
Former Zimbabwe finance minister to remain in custody
Ousted Zimbabwe finance minister Ignatius Chombo, charged with three counts of corruption for offences that allegedly took place two decades ago, was...
Dutch defence minister resigns over Mali deaths
Dutch caretaker Defence Minister Jeanine Hennis is resigning after a report highlighted serious failures by her department during a United Nations peacekeeping...
CAR defence minister sacked
Central African Republic (CAR) president Faustin-Archange Touadera has sacked his defence minister, according to a state radio broadcast, amid growing violence threatening...
Somali soldiers arrested after minister shot
The Somali government arrested two soldiers in connection with the killing a government minister in a suspected case of mistaken identity according...
Somali security forces mistakenly shoot a minister
Somali security forces shot dead a minister for public works in his car in Mogadishu after mistaking him for an Islamist militant,...
Payments were loans, ex-Guinea minister tells jury
A former Guinea government minister accused of laundering $8.5 million in bribes in exchange for helping a Chinese conglomerate secure mining rights...
New Mali Prime Minister
Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has replaced the West African nation's prime minister, according to a decree read on state-owned television.
Abdoulaye Idrissa...
Ex-Nigerian oil minister charged with money laundering
Former Nigerian oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, who was in the post between 2010-15, has been charged with money laundering, the country's financial...
Tanzanian information minister sacked
Tanzania President John Magufuli sacked the country's information minister on Thursday, the first cabinet change since taking office in late 2015.
Magufuli, nicknamed...
Burundi minister shot and killed
A gunman killed Burundi's environment and water minister on Sunday, police said, the first senior government figure to be murdered in nearly...
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...
Minister Mapisa-Nqakula’s heartening maiden defence budget
Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula's maiden budget, presented to Parliament three weeks short of her first year in office, was...
Ministerial level meeting sets the tone for national military veteran’s organisation
A five-strong delegation from the SA National Military Veterans Organisation (SANMVA) met with both the Minister and Deputy Minister of Defence and...
CAR deployment was “not only a South African decision” – Defence...
The ill-fated South African National Defence Force (SANDF) deployment to the Central African Republic (CAR) to ostensibly protect South African military trainers...
Lack of intelligence contributed to SANDF deaths in CAR – Claim
The issue of intelligence has been a simmering pot since the announcement of the death of 13 crack South African soldiers in...
Call for Minister to intervene in AMG retrenchments
The Federation of Unions of South Africa (Fedusa) has appealed to Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula to intervene in what...
Algeria ex-minister arrested in Geneva over war crimes
A former Algerian defence minister has been arrested and questioned in Switzerland on suspicion of committing war crimes during Algeria's civil war,...
