LONDON (Reuters) - London's Court of Appeal began hearing legal arguments on Wednesday into whether Zambian villagers have the right to make a claim for damages for environmental pollution in the English courts against miners Vedanta Resources and its Zambian subsidiary Konkola Copper Mines (KCM).
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi spoke with U.S President Donald Trump in a telephone call about the dispute with Qatar, Sisi's office said on Wednesday.
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Somali al Shabaab militants killed three police officers on Wednesday during a raid on a northeastern Kenyan town that sparked a day-long gunbattle, a senior police official said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A London-based public relations body has opened an investigation into one of its members, Bell Pottinger, amid allegations the company lies behind a PR smear campaign stoking racial tensions and even political violence in South Africa.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's lower house of parliament called on Wednesday for ex- president Goodluck Jonathan to testify in an inquiry into the contested sale of an oil block during his tenure, the investigating committee said.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Thursday called for broad support for new economic reforms to help the country through the impact of three years of low oil prices that have eroded the OPEC nation's revenues.
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Somali al Shabaab militants killed two police officers on Wednesday during a raid on a northeastern Kenyan town that sparked a day-long gunbattle, a police official said, the latest in a spate of militant attacks on Kenyan security services.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress has proposed at its policy conference that land expropriation without compensation should be allowed where it is "necessary and unavoidable", President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Foreign ministers from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain on Thursday started a meeting in Cairo on the Qatar crisis hours before a deadline for Doha to meet demands set by the four Arab nations, an Egyptian Foreign Ministry official told Reuters.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Seven people died in a high-rise apartment block fire in Johannesburg on Wednesday including a man who jumped to his death to escape the flames, emergency services said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress has proposed at its policy conference on Wednesday that the central bank be nationalised, two party sources said.
PARIS (Reuters) - A French public prosecutor on Wednesday asked a court to sentence the son of Equatorial Guinea's president to three years in jail on charges of using money plundered from his country to buy Parisian luxury properties and exotic cars.
DAKAR (Reuters) - Gambian Oil Minister Fafa Sanyang confirmed on Wednesday that the West African nation had ended talks to extend the exploration rights of Oslo-listed African Petroleum for two offshore oil blocks.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thieves broke into the headquarters of South Africa's elite 'Hawks' police unit in the capital Pretoria early on Wednesday, making off with hard drives and other computer equipment, the unit's spokesman said.
STRASBOURG (Reuters) - The EU executive offered Italy more funding on Tuesday to help deal with Mediterranean migrants and said private rescue boats working off Libya should review their operations to avoid encouraging people to take to sea.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Two women and two girls were killed late on Tuesday when a shell landed on a beach near Mitiga airport in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, officials said.
NAIROBI, July 5 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Wednesday. - - - - - EVENTS: *RWANDA - Statistics office to release first quarter 2017 gross domestic product growth data. GLOBAL MARKETS Asian share markets were subdued for a second session on Wednesday as simmering tensions on the Korean peninsula supported safe-harbours including the yen, bonds and
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