AFRICA• Madagascar’s president appoints a new prime minister, two days after a confused announcement over the resignation of the previous premier.• Saudi King Salman announces an agreement with Egypt to build a bridge over the Red Sea to connect the two countries.• West Africa’s regional bloc Ecowas rules that it will hear the case of Nigeria’s ex-national security adviser Sambo Dasuki, who claims he was unlawfully arrested.• A lobby group says the UN failed to look into crimes committed by peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic.• Residents of Darfur, Sudan vote in a referendum on whether to reunite their arid western region into one entity.ABROAD• Taiwan says Kenya used weapons and teargas to force 37 Taiwanese on to a plane bound for mainland China.• The EU unveils plans to force large firms to disclose more about their tax affairs.• A truce aimed at ending a year of war in Yemen holds, in spite of reports of fighting.• Former Fifa vice-president Alfredo Hawit pleads ...
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