•Road blockades in Mali leave travellers stranded as Tabaski approaches •Guinea court to question former Prime Minister KassoryFofana in hospital over corruption appeal •Nigeria’s House of Representatives launches probe into unpaid debts owed to the Federal Government •Ivorian President AlassaneOuattaraappointsd former electoral commission chairman, IbrahimeKuibiertCoulibaly, as head of Ivory Coast’s Council of State, barely a day after dissolution of the country’s Independent Electoral Commission.