Newscast - Africa

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the BBC and Daily Trust will face consequences for glorifying terrorism in their reporting.
Mr Mohammed says the BBC and Daily Trust have recently published documentaries containing interviews with bandit warlords adding that such reporting gives legitimacy to terrorism.
He says the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission are also aware of these incidents and are looking at which part of the broadcasting codes have been violated by both the BBC and the Daily Trust.

African energy giants Algeria, Nigeria, and Niger signed a memorandum of understanding on a vast gas pipeline project offering Europe potential future alternatives to Russian supplies.
The Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline would transport billions of cubic meters of gas some 4,128 kilometers from Nigeria in West Africa, north through Niger, and on to Algeria.
Algerian Energy Minister Mohamed Arkab hosted his counterparts from Nigeria and Niger, Timipre Sylva and Mahamane Sani, for talks on the project.

The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the suspended Accountant General of the Federation, Idris Ahmed, and his co-defendant bail upon terms and conditions given by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Justice Adeyemi Ajayi ordered that the defendants shall not leave the Federal Capital Territory, and should they want to, they would have to seek clearance from the court or have their bail revoked.
Justice Ajayi also ordered that the defendants should not have and shall not procure alternate passports until the case is done with, having deposited their original passports to the commission.

The minority caucus of the House of Representatives has joined its Senate counterpart to hand President Muhammadu Buhari a six-week ultimatum to fix insecurity or face impeachment in the National Assembly.
The minority leader of the House of Reps, Ndudi Elumelu, says the signatures will be gathered to impeach the President if the security situation is not addressed.
He also drew attention to the general state of the nation, including the exchange rate and aviation crisis.

The US central bank has announced another unusually large interest rate hike as it battles to rein in soaring prices in the world's largest economy.
The Federal Reserve says it would increase its key rate by 0.75 percentage points, targeting a range of 2.25% to 2.5%.
Recent reports have shown falling consumer confidence, a slowing housing market, jobless claims rising, and the first contraction in business activity since 2020.

Kim Jong-un says North Korea is ready to mobilise its nuclear war deterrent.
Leader Kim Jong-un added that the country was fully ready for any military confrontation with the US.
The US warned last month that Pyongyang could conduct such a test at any time.
The US special representative to North Korea Sung Kim says North Korea has tested an unprecedented number of missiles this year - 31 compared to 25 during the whole of its last record-breaking year, 2019.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa says that the country's women's football team deserves equal pay to the men.
He urged the country's ministers of finance and sports to increase the bonus.
The president says South Africa should outlaw pay discrimination and embark on a programme to bridge the gender pay gap.
It was earlier reported that the players would receive less money in prize bonuses than their male colleagues did for reaching the quarter-finals of the men's tournament in 2019.

Human Rights Watch says Morocco is imprisoning journalists after flawed trials on non-political charges in order to silence them.
The New York-based group says two of the most prominent cases are those of Omar Radi and Soulaimane Raissouni, both sentenced this year on sexual abuse charges to at least five years in jail.
Morocco has insisted that its justice system is independent and that the cases had nothing to do with the journalists' work.

Tunisian President Kais Saied says draft decrees will be prepared for the holding of an election for a new parliament and a second chamber for regions.
The president noted the need to prepare a draft decree related to the election of a new parliament and the Council of Regions and Districts.
The president also noted that a draft decree related to the Constitutional Court would be prepared, in accordance with provisions of the new constitution, the statement added.
Tunisia's election commission says that preliminary results indicated that a referendum on the constitution delivered a yes vote of 94.6% with a turnout of 30.5%.

The World Health Organisation reports that more than 91 million Africans live with Hepatitis B or C, which are the deadliest strains of the virus.
The scorecard showed that around 70 percent of Hepatitis B infections worldwide occur in Africa.
WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, says hepatitis was a silent epidemic, but this scorecard is sounding an alarm for the region and the world to hear.