ACCRA, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Ghana's opposition in parliament wants the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to decide whether a $2 billion Chinese deal agreed by the government in exchange for bauxite will add to the country's debt burden, it said on Thursday.
MORONI (Reuters) - Former Comoros president Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi rejects charges of corruption and embezzling public funds in connection with a scheme to sell his country's passports and will prove his innocence, his lawyer said on Thursday.
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia’s coast guard said it recovered the bodies of five migrants on Thursday whose boat sank as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
NAIROBI, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Kenya's shilling is forecast to ease against the dollar in the week to Thursday, while Zambia's kwacha will strengthen, traders said.
NAIROBI, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Kenya's shilling is forecast to ease against the dollar in the week to Thursday, while Zambia's kwacha will strengthen, traders said.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - A Ugandan lawmaker whose arrest sparked protest has been transferred from military detention to civilian custody and charged with treason, the state broadcaster reported on Thursday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African court postponed hearings in a culpable homicide case against former president Jacob Zuma's son Duduzane until Oct. 26 on Thursday, after his lawyers asked for more time to prepare his defence.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - At least four people were killed in a gun attack by suspected militants on a checkpoint east of the Libyan capital Tripoli on Thursday, a local official said.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan police have surrounded the homes of several opposition politicians and lawyers after receiving what a police spokesman said was information that they would "incite people to riot" over a court hearing for a detained opposition lawmaker.
WASHINGTON/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to study South African "land and farm seizures" and "killing of farmers", prompting Pretoria to accuse Trump of stoking racial divisions.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's government in an official tweet on Thursday rejected United States President Donald Trump's tweet on land reform as a "narrow perception" that divides the nation.
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