NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's Attorney General Githu Muigai has resigned, President Uhuru Kenyatta said without explanation on Tuesday, adding he had nominated a replacement.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma's days as head of state appear numbered after his own party resolved to remove him from office at a marathon meeting that ended early on Tuesday morning.
JUBA (Reuters) - A South African on trial in South Sudan could face the death penalty if found guilty of charges including conspiracy to overthrow the government and supplying weapons, his lawyer said on Tuesday, a day after his co-defendant was sentenced to death.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's drought-stricken city of Cape Town has pushed back its estimate for "Day Zero," when residents will have to start queuing for water, to June 4 from May 11 due to a decline in water usage, the city's deputy mayor said on Tuesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Thomas Cook flew tourists to Tunisia for the first time in three years on Tuesday, making it the first major British travel operator to resume operations there since an Islamist militant killed 30 Britons on a beach in 2015.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Ace Magashule went to see South African President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday to communicate officially the party's decision to remove him as head of state, a senior party source said.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces killed 10 militants in an exchange of fire and arrested 400 suspects, including foreigners, in a continuing crackdown in Sinai, the army said in a statement carried by state TV on Tuesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The ANC has decided to sack Jacob Zuma as President of South Africa, a senior official said on Tuesday, after a marathon meeting to determine the fate of a leader whose scandal-plagued years in power darkened and divided Nelson Mandela's 'Rainbow Nation'.
The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Tuesday. - - - - - EVENTS: UGANDA - The central bank sets its benchmark lending rate at about 0800 GMT. The bank held the rate at 9.5 percent in December. GLOBAL MARKETS Asian stocks pulled further away from two-month lows on Tuesday, lifted by Wall Street's extended rebound from last week's steep fall, but investors remained cautious
ABUJA (Reuters) - Hundreds of people suspected of links to Boko Haram stood trial in a detention centre in central Nigeria on Monday in a resumption of the country's biggest legal investigation of the militant Islamist insurgency, authorities said.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States warned the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday against using an electronic voting system for a long-delayed presidential election in December this year because it has the potential to undermine the credibility of the poll.
CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's government said on Monday it would seek out anyone inciting ethnic violence after at least seven people were killed in post-election clashes.
PRETORIA/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's African National Congress party executive committee has decided to "recall," or remove, President Jacob Zuma as head of state, a senior ANC source told Reuters on Tuesday, after a 13-hour meeting of the party's top leadership.
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