FREETOWN (Reuters) - Corrupt Sierra Leonean officials have been selling fraudulent service and diplomatic passports for thousands of dollars to individuals hoping to use them to enter the United States, the country's anti-corruption commissioner told Reuters.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - From the mother of dragons in "Game of Thrones" to Captain America from the "The Avengers", thousands of comic book and science fiction fans went head-to-head for the best costume at the first Comic Con Africa on Friday.
LAGOS (Reuters) - The Nigerian arm of Samsung Heavy Industries is in talks to resolve a court action launched by an industrial zone in the west African country where the company has been building a floating oil platform for Total, Samsung Heavy said on Friday.
MALAKAL, South Sudan (Reuters) - Yellow flowered vines crawl through empty window frames and up crumbling brick walls. Electricity poles are slanting along the road, cables hanging dead from their arms. The sign for Malakal's city council is riddled with bullet holes.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday said a new and unpopular tax on petroleum products was necessary but that he wanted to cut it to 8 percent from 16 percent.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's main opposition leader has postponed plans for a mock inauguration on Saturday following a police ban on public gatherings as the country battles to contain a cholera outbreak that has killed 26 people. [nL5N1VY445]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is concerned that increased currency swap agreements between China and African nations will reduce visibility into financial transactions and will make it harder to prevent money laundering, a senior U.S. sanctions official said on Thursday.
HARARE (Reuters) - The World Health Organization and the Red Cross said on Thursday they were ramping up their emergency responses to Zimbabwe's deadliest cholera outbreak in a decade, with politicians trading blame over contaminated water and collapsing infrastructure.
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia has not offered any of its state-owned companies as collateral for borrowing, its finance minister said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will not lift sanctions against Zimbabwe until the new government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa demonstrates it is "changing its ways," a senior U.S. economic official told a congressional panel on Thursday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday defied parliament by rejecting a finance bill that sought to postpone a widely unpopular tax on fuel that has triggered strikes and public anger.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's ruling party named new ministers to the key posts of finance, interior and water resources on Thursday, days after President Omar al-Bashir dissolved the government amid a deepening economic crisis.
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