There are close to 6,000 billionaires in Tanzania engaged in different businesses such as mining, industrial trade, financial sector, telecommunications, tourism and real estate.

This was brought to light earlier today by Finance Minister Mwigulu Nchemba during a parliamentary session in the country’s capital Dodoma.

According to the Minister, 115 of the 5740 billionaires have a net worth above $30 million, categorized as Ultra High Net Worth Individuals, and account for 28% of the total net worth of Tanzania’s billionaires.

Nchemba was responding to a question raised by Mlalo Member of Parliament, Rashid Shangazi, and took the opportunity to further explain that the government through its revenue collecting authority TRA has a registry of most of these billionaires and collects taxes from them according to the law.

Africa as a continent is home to 140,000 billionaires, accounting for just 1% of the global billionaires tally.

Top army general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has ordered the release of four civilian ministers who were detained when he led a military coup in which Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok was placed under house arrest.

The four ministers released are Hashem Hassab Alrasoul, telecommunications minister; Ali Geddo, trade minister; Hamza Baloul, information minister; and Youssef Adam, youth and sports minister. However, several others remain detained, according to Aljazeera.

The move to release the ministers came shortly after a phone call from UN head Antonio Guterres to Burhan, where Guterres appealed to the military chief to restore the democratic transition.

According to a United Nations statement, Guterres encouraged general Burhan to take action toward resolving “the political crisis in Sudan and urgently restoring the constitutional order and Sudan’s transitional process.”

Ethiopia’s federal government has accused Facebook of “spreading violence” after the platform deleted a post by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed that urged citizens to take up arms and “bury” TPLF rebels.

In a statement on Facebook, the government said the social media giant “has shown its true colours by deleting our prime minister’s message”.

It also accused the Reuters news agency of “spreading misinformation by falsely reporting some cities have fallen to the enemy when they have not”.

Twitter it would not delete Abiy’s post as “it may be in the public’s interest for the tweet to remain accessible”.

Ethiopia has often criticised international media coverage of the conflict in the north of the country.

Thousands of historic artefacts have been destroyed in the Congolese town of Gungu after a private museum burnt to ashes.

The objects at the National Museum of Gungu represent one of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s most important collections, says the BBC’s Emery Makumeno in the capital, Kinshasa.

At least 8,000 or 9,000 items dating back to the end of the 18th Century were ruined.

The cause of the fire is still unclear.

A museum guard noticed the building was burning at around 23:00 on Thursday night, according to a local official quoted in Congolese media.

Franck Gatola Mungiela is calling on the Ministry of Art and Culture as well as the Interior and Security Ministry to investigate the cause of the fire in Gungu, some 650km (400 miles) south-east of the capital, in Kwilu province.

A Tunisian court has issued an arrest warrant against former president Moncef Marzouki, a strong opponent of the current President Kaïs Saïed.

It is not clear what the charges against Mr Marzouki are.

The president in October ordered a judicial inquiry into Mr Marzouki’s call for France to end its support to “Kaïs Saïed’s dictatorial regime”.

President Kaïs Saïed had then suspended parliament, which his opponent described as a coup and a violation of the constitution.

Several MPs, lawyers and politicians critical of the president have been arrested since then.

Some TV channels and radio stations that are close to the opposition have also been shut down.