APRNEWS - Fadel Abdel Kefi, the head of the Afek Tounes party, said police stopped him at Carthage international airport and prevented him travelling, but without any judicial warrant.

The move comes a day after police started investigating a domestic journalist over an article critical of the prime minister and in the run-up to legislative elections that Saied's opponents have decried as undemocratic.

Des milliers de Congolais sont descendus dans les rues de Kinshasa, la capitale de la République démocratique du Congo, pour exiger un organe électoral neutre après que le président Félix Tshisekedi a installé un ami proche à la tête de la commission électorale.

REUTERS - Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa shot dead an anti-government protester and wounded two others who had gathered to take part in church-led marches against President Joseph Kabila’s rule on Sunday.

AFP - Kenyan police on Saturday detained another key government critic over his alleged involvement in the recent mock inauguration of opposition leader Raila Odinga as the "people's president", the third such arrest within four days.

AFP - Gabon opposition leader Jean Ping was on Saturday prevented by the security forces from taking a flight to France over a judicial matter, he told AFP.

"I was supposed to travel this evening but the security forces prevented me," the former African Union chief told AFP.

REUTERS - Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ruled out forming a coalition government after visiting opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday.