ACCRA, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Japanese automaker Nissan is considering setting up an assembly plant in Ghana as part of plans to expand in Africa, the West African nation's vice president said on Tuesday.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean opposition lawmakers walked out of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's state of the nation address to parliament on Tuesday, signalling their lingering bitterness after losing a disputed July 30 presidential and parliamentary election.
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Britain and Finland have frozen funding to Zambia on suspicion that $4 million they channelled into a social welfare scheme may have been misused, the Zambian presidency said on Tuesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's highest court on Tuesday allowed the private use of marijuana, upholding a lower court's ruling that found the criminalisation of cannabis was unconstitutional.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean opposition lawmakers on Tuesday walked out on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's state of the nation address to parliament, signalling their lingering bitterness after losing a disputed July 30 presidential and parliamentary vote.
NIAMEY (Reuters) - An Italian priest was kidnapped overnight in south Niger, near the border with Burkina Faso, a Nigerien government spokesman said on Tuesday.
MILAN (Reuters) - Oil majors Shell and Eni will be carefully monitoring a first ruling this week by a Milan judge in one of the energy industry's biggest corruption scandals for clues to what might be round the corner for them.
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 18 (Reuters) - South Africa-based financial technology firm JUMO plans to expand in high-growth Asian markets after securing the backing of Goldman Sachs in an equity funding round, the company's chief executive said.
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Kweku Adoboli, a former UBS trader jailed for a $2.25 billion fraud, has won a temporary reprieve from deportation to Ghana, his spokesman said on Monday.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Germany and Algeria want to find ways to speed up the repatriation of Algerians living illegally in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday during a visit to Algeria.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Burundi, beset by accusations of crimes sagainst humanity, threatened on Monday to withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council and sue its critics.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Floods in much of central and southern Nigeria have killed 100 people across 10 states, the country's emergency and disasters agency said on Monday.
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