LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's proposed mining tax increases will hit mineral exploration and production in Africa's second biggest copper producer, companies involved in exploration said on Tuesday.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Eastern Libyan authorities have resumed an investigation into the unexplained killing of a top rebel commander in the 2011 uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, a case that could reopen old wounds.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed on Tuesday that an abducted health worker in Nigeria has been murdered by her captors, and named her as Hauwa Mohammed Liman, a 24-year-old midwife.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's prime minister created a new "Ministry of Peace" in sweeping cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday as he sought to tackle a wave of ethnic violence.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Airlines will start flying to the Somali capital Mogadishu on Nov. 2 for the first time in four decades, the state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting reported on Tuesday.
RABAT (Reuters) - Around four people were killed and dozens injured when a train derailed near the Moroccan capital Rabat on Tuesday, a railway official said.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - The death toll from a landslide in Uganda last week has risen to 43 and displaced residents deemed most at risk in the disaster-prone region will be resettled immediately, the government said on Tuesday.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday named Ahmed Shide as finance minister to replace Abraham Tekeste, the state broadcaster said.
ABUJA (Reuters) - A medical aid worker held hostage in Nigeria since March was killed by Islamist militants after their deadline expired, the government said on Monday.
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - The family of a Tanzanian tycoon and former lawmaker who was kidnapped in Dar es Salaam last week offered on Monday a reward of one billion shillings ($436,000) for information that would help secure his release.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Kanye West and Kim Kardashian gave Uganda's leader a pair of the rapper's sneakers on Monday and he gave them both "Ugandan" names, at a meeting aimed at promoting tourism in East Africa.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is receiving treatment in South Africa for injuries sustained in a bombing in June at a campaign rally for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, state newspaper the Herald reported on Monday.
GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday it would convene an emergency committee to decide whether Congo's Ebola outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern as confirmed cases and deaths from the virus spiralled.
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