At least 35 migrants were killed when their boat sank off Tunisia’s southern coast and 67 others were rescued by the coast guard, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday. The rescue operation was ongoing, the ministry said in a statement. The migrants were of Tunisian and other nationalities.

Uganda hopes to attract tourists with a war museum showcasing some of the darkest moments from its history,according to the BBC. Atrocities committed under ex-President Idi Amin’s brutal eight-year rule and by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) are to be documented.

Burkina Faso's parliament has abolished the death penalty by adopting a new penal code that strikes it as a possible sentence.

Justice Minister Rene Bagoro said Thursday that the revised document paves the way for "more credible, equitable, accessible and effective justice in the application of criminal law."

The UN Mission in South Sudan on Friday said it had repatriated 46 Ghanaian peacekeepers involved in a sexual exploitation scandal in South Sudan in February. The contingent of 46 police officers was repatriated to Ghana on Wednesday, UNMISS said in a statement.

No fewer than 17 million Africans left the continent in 2017 in search of greener pastures, a new report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said.

The ‘Economic Development in Africa’ report also said 5.5 million people moved to Africa from other continents while some 19 million international migrants moved within Africa.

“Overall, some 19 million international migrants moved within Africa, and 17 million Africans left the continent during last year. The continent was also the destination for about 5.5 million people from outside,” the report found.

Kenyan authorities will investigate 10 financial institutions suspected of handling funds that were stolen from the government’s National Youth Service (NYS), the Daily Nation newspaper reported on Thursday.

Dozens of senior officials and business people have been taken into custody and face charges related to the theft of nearly $100 million from the youth agency.

The Daily Nation named nine commercial banks and a financial co-operative society as the institutions on which the police and central bank investigators are focusing.