AFRICA• Tanzania starts to roll out free education, leading to an increase in school enrolment.• Algeria’s parliament overwhelmingly votes for constitutional changes curbing the powers of the president.• Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo accuses the country’s leaders of lying about the fate of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram.• US president Barack Obama signs into law a measure to expand electricity in sub-Saharan Africa.• A general and critic of Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni is arrested and charged with engaging in partisan political activities.• Four people are killed in grenade attacks in Burundi’s capital, Bujumbura.ABROAD• Google boss Sundar Pichai is awarded US$199m in shares, making him the highest paid CE in the US.• India’s telecoms regulator blocks a Facebook Internet service app as part of a ruling in favour of Net neutrality.• The French parliament votes in favour of controversial constitutional changes to declare a state of emergency.• Britain’s foreign minis...
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