YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Regional West African forces freed 5,000 captives from a Boko Haram base in a more than week-long operation that also completely destroyed the militants' hideout in mountains along the Nigeria-Cameroon border, Cameroon said Wednesday.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The death toll from a landslide at a dump in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa has reached 113, officials said on Wednesday, as the government declared three days of national mourning.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Commercial helicopters can fly in and out of Abuja airport while its runway is repaired, Nigeria's aviation minister said on Wednesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's top court on Wednesday blamed Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini for a "crisis" that could jeopardise the payment of welfare benefits to 17 million people, saying she had failed to resolve a service-provider dispute.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda acknowledged on Wednesday that its security forces killed more than 100 people in an assault on a tribal leader's palace last year, revising the death toll upwards by dozens, but denied a rights group's accusation that children were among the dead.
LAGOS, March 15 (Reuters) - Africa's Ecobank expects its new digital banking platform to help to boost its customer base across the continent to 100 million from 13 million by 2020, it said after announcing that it had signed up 1.5 million personal accounts through the mobile app.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - British foreign minister Boris Johnson met Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on Wednesday, pledging aid to help combat the effects of a devastating drought, the Somali president's office said.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's public debt stands at about 50 percent of GDP and the country has not been in any danger of failing to repay its creditors, President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Wednesday.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A campaign to inform would-be migrants in Africa about the dangers of heading to Europe via the Mediterranean sea aims to reach people in 15 African countries through social media, radio and television adverts, migration officials said on Wednesday.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The Ethiopian government has lifted some restrictions imposed during a state of emergency declared last year following deadly protests, state-run media quoted the defence minister as saying on Wednesday.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Gunmen from South Sudan have killed 28 people and kidnapped 43 children in neighbouring Ethiopia, a government official said on Wednesday, another demonstration of how Sudan's civil war threatens the region.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari chaired his first cabinet meeting on Wednesday since coming back from medical leave last week.
ACCRA, March 15 (Reuters) - Ghana's annual consumer price inflation fell to 13.2 percent in February from 13.3 percent the previous month due to a marginal decline in the price of fuel, the statistics office said on Wednesday.
ACCRA, March 15 (Reuters) - Ghana's annual consumer price inflation fell to 13.2 percent in February from 13.3 percent the previous month, the statistics office said on Wednesday. The government of President Nana Akufo-Addo said this month in its first annual budget it would reduce inflation to 11.2 percent by the end of the year as part of its drive to restore macro economic stability. (Reporting by Kwasi Kpodo; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg)
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Four female teenage suicide bombers killed two people and injured 16 others in a residential area in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a disaster agency spokesman said on Wednesday.
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - British Olympic champion Mo Farah is supporting a charity appeal, launched on Wednesday, for 16 million people facing starvation in East Africa, including Somalia where he was born.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's highest court will hear an application on Wednesday seeking to have it take oversight of a renewed contract that must be clinched before Thursday to ensure welfare grants are paid on time in April to 17 million people.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has declared three days of national mourning for victims of a landslide at a rubbish landfill site in the capital Addis Ababa.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Armed pirates off the coast of Somalia who hijacked an oil tanker with eight Sri Lankan crew on board are demanding a ransom for the release of the vessel, the EU Naval Force said.
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Vanilla producers on the tropical island of Madagascar say a cyclone that killed 78 people has also damaged around 30 percent of the crop in the world's biggest producer.
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