HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has started vaccinating people living in urban areas to contain the worst cholera outbreak to hit the country in a decade which has left 49 people dead and infected thousands more.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a package of reforms on Thursday which he said would create 275,000 more jobs a year, in a bid to bring down sky-high unemployment and improve his own track record on the economy.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that a gathering of top officials and business leaders had agreed on a package of measures that would create an additional 275,000 jobs a year.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo has accused the European Union of interfering in its upcoming presidential election by not heeding Kinshasa's call to lift sanctions on President Joseph Kabila's hand-picked candidate, letters from his lawyers show.
ACCRA, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Ghana's cedi and Zambia's kwacha are seen holding their ground or moving toward the stronger side over the next week, lifted by local tax payments.
ACCRA, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Ghana's cedi and Zambia's kwacha are seen holding their ground or moving toward the stronger side over the next one week, lifted by local tax payments.
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - It was the nine corpses left by the roadside after a gunfight that made Honrne Waba flee her village in Northwest Cameroon in May and hide in the bush.
CAIRO (Reuters) - One person was killed and at least three others injured in a blast at a fuel depot on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital Cairo on Thursday, security sources and al-Ahram state owned newspaper said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is in talks with South Africa's major arms manufacturers and is considering taking an equity stake in the struggling state-owned defence firm Denel, the head of the Saudi state defence company told Reuters.
CAIRO (Reuters) - An international rights group on Wednesday accused Egyptian authorities of "forcibly disappearing" a prominent human rights lawyer who was due to be released from prison last month but whose whereabouts remain unknown.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Two Sudanese military planes collided while landing at Khartoum international airport on Wednesday, forcing it to close for several hours, an airport spokesman said.
HAWASSA, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told members of his ruling coalition that "an attack on one is an attack on all" on Wednesday as he pushed for unity after months of ethnic violence.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Three International Committee of the Red Cross volunteers helping with the burial of an Ebola victim in eastern Congo were injured in an attack by villagers, prompting the ICRC to suspend burials in the area, health officials said on Wednesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Under pressure over his track record on the economy, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will convene a gathering of top officials and business leaders on Thursday to find solutions to the country's long-running unemployment crisis.
HAWASSA, Ethiopia (Reuters) - A drunk police officer shot dead two colleagues in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday, state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporation reported.
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