VICTORIA (Reuters) - Seychelles reported on Thursday the discovery of two pieces of debris that seemed to be from an aircraft and said it had notified Malaysia, whose Flight MH370 vanished in 2014 with 239 people aboard.
GABORONE (Reuters) - Botswana will host the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, next month, officials said on Thursday, risking a backlash from China, a major investor in the African country's economy.
MOMBASA (Reuters) - A senior Kenyan government official was taken hostage with five other people by suspected Islamist militants who attacked the vehicle they were travelling in on Thursday, a military spokesman said.
KANILAI, Gambia (Reuters) - In a warehouse on the sprawling country estate of Gambia's exiled former leader, Yahya Jammeh, silver platters pile up beside dusty crates of empty champagne bottles with labels commemorating his 1994 coup.
ACCRA, July 13 (Reuters) - A bus carrying Ghanaian soccer team Asante Kotoko was involved in an accident on Wednesday that left one team official dead, and the coach and several players needing hospital treatment.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - They've been kidnapped by bandits, accused of witchcraft, arrested, robbed, and swept away by flash floods. They've also been mobbed by angry voters and confronted by men offended that their wives are being interviewed instead of them.
NAIROBI, July 13 (Reuters) - The Kenyan shilling is expected to trade with a weakening tone as importers stock up on hard currency ahead of next month's election while Nigeria's naira is seen being supported by offshore investors returning to Africa's largest economy.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan said on Thursday it would continue bilateral cooperation with the United States, including on intelligence-sharing, despite Khartoum's decision to halt the work of a committee formed to negotiate relief from U.S. sanctions.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's anti-graft watchdog wants President Jacob Zuma to comply with a directive by her predecessor and appoint a judge to investigate influence-peddling in his government, Business Day newspaper reported on Thursday, citing court documents.
DOUALA (Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed and over 40 wounded in a suicide bomb attack in a small town in northern Cameroon near the Nigerian border late on Wednesday, an senior army source and a local official told Reuters.
JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked several judges who had been on strike over poor pay and living conditions for the last two months, officials said on Thursday.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - The son-in-law of Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said on Thursday that a Congolese court had sentenced him in absentia to one year in prison for real estate fraud, a move that could further strain relations between the neighbouring countries.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Six Kenyan police officers were killed and two wounded when their convoy was attacked by gunmen in central Kenya where drought and scarce grazing land is fuelling violence.
ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government, looking to stem a flow of migrants into the country, has drawn up a draft code of conduct for non-governmental organisations operating in the Mediterranean Sea, an official said on Wednesday.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Gambia could become the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate malaria on its track record of combating the mosquito-borne disease but more donor funds are needed for the "last mile" of the drive, health experts said on Wednesday.
ACCRA, July 13 (Reuters) - A bus carrying Ghanaian soccer team Asante Kotoko was involved in an accident on Wednesday that left several players and officials needing hospital treatment, the team said.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Europe's top technology company, SAP, has put four senior managers in South Africa on leave and begun a probe into reports that have dragged the company into an influence peddling scandal involving friends of President Jacob Zuma.
NAIROBI, July 13 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Thursday. - - - - - GLOBAL MARKETS Asian shares scaled a two-year top on Thursday as investors wagered policy tightening in the United States would be glacial at best, lifting Wall Street to record peaks and lowering bond yields almost everywhere. WORLD OIL PRICES Oil prices wer
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