ABIDJAN, March 19 (Reuters) - Abundant and regular rainfall in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions boded well for the last stages of the April-to-September mid-crop, farmers said on Monday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Tiger Brands has closed its meat processing factory in the capital Pretoria after detecting the presence of listeria, it said on Monday. The bacteria has killed 180 people in 14 months in the worst global listeria outbreak.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A judge ordered a provincial government in South Africa to pay $15 million in damages to families of at least 144 psychiatric patients who he said died of negligence after being moved to unregistered facilities in early 2016.
TUNIS (Reuters) - A militant blew himself up as Tunisian security forces surrounded him and another fighter in a house near the Libyan border on Monday, the interior ministry said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's High Court ruled on Monday that a luxury jet leased by the Gupta family, friends of ousted president Jacob Zuma, should be grounded after the Canadian credit agency that financed the lease cancelled its loan to the Guptas.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Days ahead of Egypt's presidential election, Moussa Mostafa Moussa, the only candidate standing against incumbent Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is avoiding the limelight.
----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ---------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, MARCH 19
DAKAR (Reuters) - The United Nations condemned an "unlawful and unjustified" crackdown by Congolese security forces on anti-government protests that killed at least 47 people between Jan. 2017 and Jan. 2018, a report said on Monday.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - A sealed bid auction opened on Monday to buy 55,000 tonnes of phosphate onboard a ship seized by South African authorities last year over the Moroccan cargo from the disputed Western Sahara, the auctioneers said.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Monday companies and individuals had returned $591 million in funds illegally stashed abroad after a 90-day amnesty to bring back the money expired last week but $827 million was still outstanding.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza on Sunday set May 17 as the date for a referendum that could extend his rule for at least a decade.
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - At least 17 people died when a tropical storm hit eastern Madagascar over the weekend, authorities said.
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