Sunday, 14 April 2013 07:13
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, is beginning a visit to West Africa that will take him to Benin, Ghana and Niger, the world's fourth-largest uranium producer, Iranian media have reported.
Africa

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, is beginning a visit to West Africa that will take him to Benin, Ghana and Niger, the world's fourth-largest uranium producer, Iranian media have reported.

The Tunisian government has published the names and photographs of five people it said were suspected of involvement in the February assassination of a secular opposition politician and asked citizens to help track them down.

Michel Djotodia, whose rebel coalition Seleka seized power in the Central African Republic last month, has been elected interim president by the national transitional council.

Armed men dressed in Somali police uniforms have stormed the court complex in the capital Mogadishu killing at least a dozen people, before a gun battle erupted with security forces besieging the compound.

The International Monetary Fund has recognised the government of Somalia, ending a 22-year break in relations that could lead to IMF technical and policy support to the country.

Mali's transitional government prime minister has promised that elections will go ahead in July despite fears that his government is failing to reassert control after the ousting of rebel fighters.

Sudan and South Sudan will normalise ties and start cross-border cooperation, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has said.

An estimated 74,000 Malians, who have been displaced by fighting in Mali, are in need of urgent help in the desert of Mauritania, the Doctors without Borders (MSF) aid group has said.

The political and security situation in the Central African Republic is highly volatile, the humanitarian situation is "extremely dire," looting and sexual violence are on the rise, and armed groups are recruiting children, the UN envoy to the impoverished country has said.

A court in Malawi has adjourned a treason trial against the former foreign minister and other high-ranking former government officials until April 16.
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