DODOMA, Tanzania (Reuters) - Tanzania said on Thursday its budget for 2017/18 (July-June) will rise 7 percent to 31.71 trillion shillings ($14.21 billion) giving a budget deficit of 3.8 percent of gross domestic product.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda will increase spending by 10 percent in the fiscal year starting next month to 29 trillion shillings ($8.09 billion) to support flagging economic growth, its finance minister said in a budget speech on Thursday.
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's acting president is visiting the northeastern city of Maiduguri after an attack by Boko Haram jihadists which killed 14 people and injured 24 others, his spokesman said on Thursday.
LUSAKA, June 8 (Reuters) - Zambia's kwacha is expected to firm in the coming week mainly due to increased dollar inflows from corporate sellers and exporters looking to fulfil tax payments due next Friday.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A United Nations experts mission is assisting Ivory Coast authorities investigating an arms cache discovered last month in the home of an aide to parliament speaker Guillaume Soro, a government spokesman said on Thursday.
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad has recalled its ambassador from Qatar for consultations, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, joining other African states in showing support for Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations amid a worsening regional rift.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa said on Thursday it was suspending all trade in birds and chicken products from neighbouring Zimbabwe after it reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu at a commercial poultry farm.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - An attack by Boko Haram jihadists on the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri killed 14 people, police said on Thursday, the first official toll.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The suicide bomber who killed 22 people at a concert in Manchester last month was radicalised in 2015 while living in Britain, his brother has told Libyan counter-terrorism investigators in Tripoli.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Up to 10,000 people in the South African coastal resort of Knysna have been evacuated as wildfires fanned by strong winds ripped through the town, razing homes and other properties, officials said on Thursday.
BOSSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab group killed 20 soldiers in an attack on a military base in a town in the semi-autonomous Puntland region on Thursday, an officer said.
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema will go on trial at a high court on treason charges, a magistrate said on Thursday, in a case that has stoked political tensions following a contested election last year.
BOSSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - Al Shabaab militants captured a town in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region on Thursday, a senior official said, and the group said it had killed at least 61 soldiers in the fighting.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African cabinet ministers are seriously concerned about leaked emails purported to show government officials were unduly influenced by business interests, Communications Minister Ayanda Dloldo said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The understanding of human origins was turned on its head on Wednesday with the announcement of the discovery of fossils unearthed on a Moroccan hillside that are about 100,000 years older than any other known remains of our species, Homo sapiens.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Conditions are so dire in President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's Egypt that anyone could beat him in next year's presidential election if the vote is held fairly, the highest-profile potential challenger told Reuters.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Eight people have been killed and thousands forced from their homes as South Africa's tourist base Cape Town and surrounding areas were hit by the worst winter storm in 30 years, officials said on Wednesday.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has had to scale back plans for emergency feeding of 400,000 people in Boko Haram-hit northeast Nigeria due to funding shortfalls, a top U.N. official said on Wednesday.
KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A northern Nigerian state's governor on Wednesday ordered the arrest of activists for demanding the eviction of eastern Igbo people, amid rising tensions between ethnic groups that hark back to the country's Biafra civil war.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked the city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, the Islamist militant group's most serious assault on the regional capital in a year and a half.
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