GENEVA (Reuters) - The African Union and South Sudan are failing in their joint responsibility to set up a court to prosecute atrocities in the central African country and are not cooperating with a United Nations inquiry, a U.N. investigator said on Tuesday.
MAPUTO (Reuters) - A cholera outbreak in parts of Mozambique has infected more than 1,200 people, killing two this month after heavy rains, and will spread further if no action is taken, a health ministry official said on Tuesday.
JUBA (Reuters) - Eight local staff with a U.S. aid group in South Sudan were released safely on Tuesday after being detained by armed men, the agency said, calming fears that such workers could become a new target in the famine-hit nation's civil war.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan doctors ended a three-month strike in public hospitals on Tuesday after reaching agreement on pay and working conditions, ending a standoff that threatened to embarrass the government before August's elections.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Islamist militant sect Boko Haram on Tuesday released a video purporting to show the execution of three men the group accused of being Nigerian military spies.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini said there was "no crisis" in the grants payments controversy despite a service-provider dispute that has cast doubt over the welfare benefits payments due April 1.
WASHINGTON/CAIRO (Reuters) - Russia appears to have deployed special forces to an airbase in western Egypt near the border with Libya in recent days, U.S., Egyptian and diplomatic sources say, a move that would add to U.S. concerns about Moscow's deepening role in Libya.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Fighting in Libya's oil coastline region this month has been marked by human rights violations while attacks are likely to worsen in coming days, U.N. human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said on Tuesday.
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aid workers in South Sudan should be exempt from a 100-fold hike in work permit fees so they can respond to famine in the country, the United Nations said as humanitarian agencies struggle to reach those in need amid fighting and looting.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai customs have confiscated 21 rhino horns with an estimated value of nearly $5 million in the biggest such seizure in Thailand for years, officials said on Tuesday.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Bereaved families tussled with rescue workers on Tuesday at the site of an Ethiopian rubbish dump where a landslide killed 65 people this weekend.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Pirates have hijacked a Sri Lankan-flagged oil tanker, a Somali official said on Tuesday, the first time they have successfully taken a commercial ship since 2012.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Tuesday he was "fairly confident" social security payments will be paid on April 1 despite a service-provider dispute that has cast doubt over the welfare benefits.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Mutilated bodies are being found once again in Burundi where politically-motivated violence will soon enter its third year, according to a U.N. human rights inquiry.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Fierce clashes resumed on Monday at a tower block complex in southwest Benghazi where forces loyal to Libya's eastern government have been battling for weeks to dislodge rival fighters, a security official said.
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger's appeals court on Monday sentenced an exiled former presidential candidate to a year in jail for child trafficking, the final ruling in a long-running case that his lawyers have dismissed as politically motivated.
JAKARTA, March 14 (Reuters) - Former Chelsea, Real Madrid and AC Milan midfielder Michael Essien has joined Indonesia's Persib Bandung, the club announced on social media on Tuesday.
JAKARTA, March 14 (Reuters) - Former Chelsea, Real Madrid and AC Milan midfielder Michael Essien has joined Indonesia's Persib Bandung, the club announced on social media on Tuesday.
NAIROBI, March 14 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Tuesday. - - - - - GLOBAL MARKETS Sterling slipped on Tuesday after Britain's parliament paved the way for Prime Minister Theresa May to launch divorce talks with the European Union, while stocks advanced ahead of an expected U.S. interest rate later in the week. WORLD OIL PRIC
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