Nigeria’s president appealed for calm on Sunday following reports of intercommunal violence between ethnic groups at a market in the southwestern state of Oyo.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, at his re-inauguration following his re-election last December has pledged to unify the nation for economic and social prosperity.
Guinea's President Alpha Conde was sworn in for a third term at a ceremony in Conakry on Tuesday following violent elections whose result the opposition rejected.
The former Burundian president Pierre Buyoya who also acts as the special envoy of the African Union to Mali and the Sahel said on Wednesday that he had quit the post to clear his name of alleged involvement with the murder of his successor.