WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June 13 (Reuters) - A Ghanaian man who lost all his fingers to frostbite crossing into Canada from the United States to seek asylum, can remain in the country, a Canadian immigration and refugee board ruled on Tuesday.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Angry South African commuters have set fire to train carriages, attacked shops and overturned vehicles in Cape Town's main train station after hours of delays to services.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Two children were pulled alive on Tuesday from the wreckage of a seven-storey building in a residential area of Nairobi, rescue services said, nearly 24 hours after the building collapsed.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The youth arm of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) said on Tuesday it will back Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, former chair of the African Union and President Jacob Zuma's ex-wife, to be the party's next leader.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hit by one of its deadliest meningitis outbreaks in years, with more than 1,000 deaths, Nigeria could struggle to contain future epidemics due to a shortage of vaccines, health experts said.
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Tuesday suspended an inspection system launched last year for agricultural commodities such as wheat, lawyers on the case told Reuters.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba denied unlawfully granting citizenship to five members of the wealthy Gupta family who are friends of President Jacob Zuma, during his time as minister of home affairs.
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Staff working in South Sudan's health centres and schools have been forcibly recruited by armed groups, causing facilities to close, the United Nations said, as it struggles to provide aid in one of the world's most dangerous war zones.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - East African leaders said late on Monday they would try and push South Sudan's warring sides to revive collapsed peace efforts and delay elections currently scheduled for August next year to a more realistic date.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's tourist capital Cape Town remains gripped by critical water shortages despite being lashed by torrential rains last week in the region's worst storm in 30 years, officials said on Tuesday.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A drop in global cocoa prices threatens to undermine efforts to stamp out child labour in Ghana and Ivory Coast, the world's two biggest growers, as falling incomes could force farmers to send their children to work, charities said on Monday.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's anti-corruption agency is investigating the speaker of the lower chamber of parliament, according to a document seen by Reuters on Monday, part of a campaign against graft being waged by President Muhammadu Buhari's government.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - About 15 people are missing after a seven-storey building collapsed in a residential area of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, rescue services said on Tuesday, and authorities said they had asked its occupants to leave before it came down.
NAIROBI, June 13 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Tuesday. - - - - - EVENTS: *KENYA - Centum Investment Company releases its full year earnings results for the period to end-March. GLOBAL MARKETS Asian stocks mostly rebounded on Tuesday despite a further slide in U.S. tech shares, while the Canadian dollar soared on the possibility interest rates might
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