PARIS (Reuters) - France will press Mali's re-elected President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Saturday to move more quickly to bring into force faltering peace accords with rebels as Islamist militants keep up actions to destabilise the West African country.
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chadian President Idriss Deby has sacked his finance minister and replaced him with another ministry official, a government decree showed, the third change to the post since December.
MONROVIA (Reuters) - The U.S. government is considering helping Liberia track down more than $100 million in missing cash, an embassy spokesman said, in a case that has triggered a political crisis in the impoverished country.
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - The queue snakes out of the departures hall and deep into the carpark at Libya's small Misrata airport - the main remaining gateway in and out of the country since fighting shut down the last runways in the capital Tripoli.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The number of people dead from Tanzania's ferry accident disaster has risen to at least 136, the country's top police official said on Friday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan judge temporarily lifted a ban on an acclaimed lesbian movie on Friday, making it eligible to be entered for a Foreign Language Oscar, delighting the filmmakers but angering the censor.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Over 500 rhinos were poached for their horns in South Africa in the first eight months of 2018, a 26 percent fall from 691 in the same period last year, the Department of Environmental Affairs said on Friday.
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - More than 100 bodies have been retrieved after a ferry sank on Lake Victoria, Tanzanian state radio reported on Friday, and hundreds more were still feared missing as rescuers searched for survivors from daybreak on the morning after the disaster.
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - More than 100 bodies have been found so far after a ferry sank in Lake Victoria on Thursday, Tanzania's state radio TBC Taifa said on Friday.
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Britain, Finland, Ireland and Sweden are withholding nearly $34 million in budget support to Zambia's social welfare and education sectors due to concerns over financial mismanagement, Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe said on Thursday.
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - At least 44 people were confirmed dead and rescuers resumed searching at the crack of dawn on Friday for hundreds more still missing, a day after a ferry sank in Lake Victoria, Tanzanian police said.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Friday he had signed a new finance bill into law, officially introducing a series of new taxes, including one on fuel, which have caused widespread anger.
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