FREETOWN, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's African Nations Cup qualifier against Ghana in Kumasi will not go ahead on Thursday after the country's football association failed to get a FIFA suspension lifted.
ABUJA (Reuters) - The co-founder of a group to raise awareness about schoolgirls kidnapped by jihadists said she aims to become Nigeria's first woman president by mobilising first-time voters discouraged from going to the polls by the long domination of two main parties.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe police will stop planned protests by the labour movement against a new tax on money transfers on Thursday because of a standing order outlawing public gatherings in the capital following a cholera outbreak, its spokesman said.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday that he had accepted the resignation of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene and appointed former central bank governor Tito Mboweni as his replacement.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday that he had accepted the resignation of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene and appointed former central bank governor Tito Mboweni as his replacement.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will announce former central bank governor Tito Mboweni as finance minister on Tuesday, replacing Nhlanhla Nene, Eyewitness News reported.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Tuesday it had killed one militant in an air strike in southern Somalia over the weekend during a battle pitting U.S. and Somali government troops against al Shabaab Islamist fighters.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will announce the departure of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene at a news conference at 1430 GMT, a senior source in the ruling African National Congress told Reuters.
CAIRO, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Egypt's first smartphone maker is looking to enter the broader African market by the end of 2018 or early 2019 as it seeks to boost exports, its sales director said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa will make a statement on the fate of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene on Tuesday at 1430 GMT, his office said, sending the rand firmer.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will visit the African island nation of Madagascar next year, a cardinal from the country said on Tuesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Zulu king and Afrikaans nationalist group AfriForum are forming a partnership to develop the agriculture on vast swathes of land the monarch controls through a trust, AfriForum's CEO said on Tuesday.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's state-owned rail service PRASA has lost around 636 million rand ($42.5 million) over the past three and a half years due to deliberate train fires, parliament heard on Tuesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has spoken with Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene and the president will make a decision "in due course", the EWN news service said quoting the president's office.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Criminal networks are using Iran as a transit point for illicit Somali charcoal exports that earn Islamist militants al Shabaab millions of dollars annually in tax, U.N. sanctions monitors said in a report seen by Reuters.
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's central bank governor is to meet representatives of telecommunications company MTN and banks on Tuesday to discuss a dispute over the repatriation of $8.1 bln, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African president Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday declined to answer questions on the fate of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene, who admitted to visiting the Gupta brothers embroiled in an inquiry into allegations of corruption.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's top anti-graft agency will investigate Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene for possibly breaching the executive code of ethics when he was deputy minister, the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Tuesday.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - East Libyan forces on Monday captured a top suspected Egyptian militant long sought by Cairo on charges of orchestrating a deadly desert ambush on police last year and other high-profile attacks, the Libyan military said.
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon opposition candidate Maurice Kamto declared victory in Sunday's presidential election, but incumbent President Paul Biya's party dismissed his claim as fantasy and accused him of breaking the law by making it.
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