ACCRA, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Former United Nations chief and Noble prize laureate Kofi Annan will be buried in his home country Ghana on Sept 13, the West African nation's president said on Friday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nike stores in South Africa were all open on Friday, the company said, after some were closed following a backlash over racist comments by a man said to have links to the U.S. sportswear company.
MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberian President and former football star George Weah awarded ex-Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger with the country's highest honor in a ceremony on Friday for services to African football that included launching Weah's own acclaimed career.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court confirmed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's disputed July 30 election victory on Friday, dismissing an opposition challenge that had held up his inauguration.
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's state airline wants to lay off 1,200 workers to ease financial difficulties which have led to flight delays and the grounding of aircraft due to lack of spare parts, its chief executive told Reuters on Friday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas told an inquiry that business friends of ex-president Jacob Zuma threatened to kill him if he spoke about a meeting at which they offered him money and the post of finance minister.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) is forging ahead with its plans to change the constitution to allow the expropriation of land without compensation.
CHELELEKTU, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Shiburu Kutuyu, a 45-year-old Ethiopian maize and coffee farmer, was jolted awake by gunshots one night in June. He told his wife and seven children to flee.
BISIL, Kenya (Reuters) - Thousands of Kenyan boys had a blessing of milk and beer sprayed on them as part of a rare Maasai ethnic community initiation ceremony to mark their passing into early manhood.
GENEVA (Reuters) - A doctor in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is hospitalised with Ebola, and 97 of his contacts have been identified in an area almost entirely surrounded by armed militia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's top court will on Friday decide whether President Emmerson Mnangagwa's disputed July 30 election victory should stand against complaints by his main rival that it was rigged.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Thomas Cook said it was moving all 301 of its customers from a hotel in Hurghada, Egypt, as a precautionary measure after two of its holidaymakers died in circumstances it said were still unclear.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has told the U.S. charge d'affaires of its disappointment over Washington's "failure" to use diplomatic channels after President Donald Trump angered Pretoria with comments on its land policy.
WASHINGTON/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The United States warned South Africa on Thursday that seizing land without compensation risked sending the country down the wrong path, deepening a spat over Pretoria's efforts to fix a glaring racial disparity almost 25 years after the end of apartheid.
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