BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The dominant armed force in the east Libyan city of Benghazi said on Thursday it had taken control of one the last holdouts of Islamist-led militias, amid clashes in which at least 13 troops were killed, according to medical officials.
GENEVA/LAGOS (Reuters) - A U.N. expert asked Nigeria on Thursday for urgent information about a forced eviction of thousands of people from makeshift homes in Lagos, amid reports of brutality and possible breaches of human rights laws.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - China's Huawei, the world's third-largest smartphone maker, will launch its new cheaper Nova smartphone in South Africa and Kenya early next year, looking to maintain double-digit sales growth in the continent led by its flagship P9 series.
JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudanese soldiers and rebels said they clashed in a state bordering Sudan, killing at least 15 people as violence raged on in the world's youngest nation after months of failed talks and peace accords.
ROME (Reuters) - Six migrants died and up to 100 more were missing and feared dead after their rubber boat sank in the Mediterranean on Thursday, the president of the Italian unit of aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned 82 prisoners, mostly university students jailed for protesting, state news agency MENA said on Thursday.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo opposition leader Samy Badibanga was named prime minister on Thursday, the presidency said in a statement, as part of a power-sharing deal that allows President Joseph Kabila to stay in power after his term ends next month.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - At Benghazi University, graduation pictures shot at a wrecked campus symbolise hope for a return to normality in the city after more than two years of war.
HARARE (Reuters) - The United Nations on Thursday said its budget to assist people suffering from Zimbabwe's worst drought in a quarter of a century that left millions in need of food aid had fallen short by $140 million.
MARRAKESH, Morocco (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Marrakesh climate talks may not deliver a substantial boost for international funding to help poorer countries cope with the worsening floods, droughts, storms and rising seas brought by climate change, negotiators and development charities fear.
(Adds Tanzania shilling) NAIROBI, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The Kenyan and Ugandan shillings are seen weakening in the week to next Thursday, while Zambia's kwacha is seen strengthening, traders said. KENYA The Kenyan shilling could weaken due to sustained corporate demand outweighing dollar inflows, traders said. At 0750 GMT, commercial banks quoted the shilling at 101.80/102.00 to the dollar, compared with 101.60/70 at last Thursday's close. "Corporate demand appears not
MARRAKESH, Morocco (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Marrakesh climate talks may not deliver a substantial boost for international funding to help poorer countries cope with the worsening floods, droughts, storms and rising seas brought by climate change, negotiators and development charities fear.
NAIROBI, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The Kenyan and Ugandan shillings are seen weakening in the week to next Thursday, while Zambia's kwacha is seen strengthening, traders said. KENYA The Kenyan shilling could weaken due to sustained corporate demand outweighing dollar inflows, traders said. At 0750 GMT, commercial banks quoted the shilling at 101.80/102.00 to the dollar, compared with 101.60/70 at last Thursday's close. "Corporate demand appears not to have reduced," said a trader
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's cabinet said on Thursday the police were investigating allegations that State Security Minister David Mahlobo was involved in a rhino-poaching syndicate.
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Central and West African countries have promised to protect their tropical forests from being cut down to make way for palm oil crops, in a declaration signed on Wednesday by governments representing more than 70 percent of Africa's tropical forests.
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Ikponwosa Ero was five years old, she couldn't walk down the street in Nigeria without being abused for having albinism -- a lack of pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes.
(Reuters) - A Somali-American man in Minnesota was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 years in prison for conspiring to aid the Islamic State militant group, local media reported.
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Twenty-one people died and six remain in hospital in eastern Cameroon after drinking what is believed to have been a toxic batch of locally distilled alcohol, regional officials said on Wednesday.
NAIROBI, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Thursday. - - - - - GLOBAL MARKETS U.S. Treasury yields eased in Asian trade on Thursday as a week-long surge that followed Donanld Trump's shock election win subsided further, helping Asian stocks gain and dragging the dollar off a more than 13-1/2 year peak set overnight. WORLD OIL PRICES Cr
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