AL-OUR, EGYPT, May 15 (Reuters) - Tears mixed with joy on Tuesday as the remains of 20 Christians were laid to rest in Egypt's Minya province more than three years after they were kidnapped and beheaded in Libya in an attack that provoked rare Egyptian air strikes.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police on the trail of one of the country's most wanted criminals shot dead a 17-year-old boy after mistaking him for their suspect, the boy's father said on Tuesday, in the latest accusation of wrongful killing to be levelled at the force.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Forces of Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar attacked opposition targets in the eastern city of Derna on Tuesday using aircraft and artillery, taking a wheat silo and villages on the outskirts, military officials said.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Young boys who were forced to beg on the streets for Islamic teachers have turned their suffering into art, as they join more than 1,000 artists showing their work at Africa's biggest and oldest biennale art exhibition in Senegal this month.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A fire last month that gutted a facility of French telecoms group Orange in Ivory Coast, disrupting service for weeks, appears to have been the result of a criminal act, the communications minister said on Tuesday.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Rangers said on Tuesday they had stopped tourists entering Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park during investigations into the kidnapping of two Britons there last week.
----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY, MAY 15
HONG KONG, May 15 (Reuters) - Privately held gold trader Sakthi Trading Group is planning to build two gold refineries in Africa and is looking for investors for the projects, company executives said on Tuesday.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's public sector workers have rejected an improved salary offer of 15 percent from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government and want wages for the lowest paid employees to more than double, the main public sector union said on Tuesday.
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Kenyan court on Monday rejected a plea for a change to the laws on how property should be split in divorce cases, a ruling activists said was a blow for women's rights in the country.
NAIROBI, May 15 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Tuesday. - - - - - EVENTS NIGERIA - The statistics office is expected to release consumer price index data for April. GLOBAL MARKETS Asian stocks pulled back on Tuesday, brushing off a firmer Wall Street lead and pausing a recent rally, as investors remained cautious about key economic and
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