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Ethiopia’s Council of Ministers Saturday proposed a $13.4 billion annual budget for the next Ethiopian Fiscal Year which will begin on July 8, 2021.

Former South African president Jacob Zuma and co-accused French arms manufacturer Thales pleaded not guilty to multiple fraud and corruption charges when they appeared in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Wednesday.

Malian prime minister Moctar Ouane has been locked in talks with the country’s stakeholders over the formation of a new government.

A Rwandan prosecutor asked a court on Monday to sentence the former Rwandan minister of Education and then head of Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB) Daphrose Gahakwa to 7 years in jail for alleged corruption.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared war on high-level corruption in the country, declaring in parliament on Thursday that the “days of state capture are over”.

South African Justice Minister Ronald Lamola announced on Wednesday that his government would provide US$5 million in extra funding to the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture to enable the body continue its work of unearthing the extent of corruption in the country’s state agencies.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa returned to the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture hearings on Thursday, his second day to do so following his admission his ruling African National Congress party had fallen short of fighting corruption among its cadre.

A total of 410 MPs out of 412 present during Monday’s session in parliament in Kinshasa approved the government of the Sacred Union formed on 12 April.

The Transition Military Council (TMC) in Chad which took over the country after the death of Idriss Déby Itno was confirmed, has approved a basic blueprint containing 104 articles.

Tanzania’s new President Samia Suluhu Hassan has announced the appointment of new Finance and Foreign Affairs ministers in a first cabinet reshuffle since she assumed office last month, APA learnt on Thursday.