WARSAW/ABUJA (Reuters) - Pirates boarded a container ship off the coast of Nigeria, seizing 11 crew including eight from Poland, according the vessel's management firm and Polish state media.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner FW de Klerk was discharged from a three-night hospital stay after recovering from a lung ailment, his foundation said on Monday.
LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon's President Ali Bongo was hospitalised last week in Saudi Arabia after suffering a stroke, two sources told Reuters, while Gabonese authorities said he was admitted only because of fatigue.
TUNIS (Reuters) - A woman in her 30s blew herself up in the centre of the Tunisian capital Tunis on Monday wounding nine people in what the Interior Ministry said was a "terrorist explosion".
TUNIS (Reuters) - Nine people, including eight policemen, were wounded when a woman blew herself up in what a spokesman for the Tunisian Interior Ministry described as a "terrorist explosion" in central Tunis on Monday.
TUNIS (Reuters) - A woman blew herself up in the centre of the Tunisian capital Tunis on Monday, state radio said.
ABIDJAN, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Above average rainfall in Ivory Coast's cocoa growing regions could improve the crop size next year, farmers said on Monday, although early signs of rain-induced black pod disease worried some.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Violence in South Sudan is blocking deliveries of food aid needed to stave off severe hunger in some areas, the World Food Programme said, adding to evidence that a peace deal signed last month is not holding.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - At least four people were killed and seven wounded when suspected Islamic State fighters attacked a town in central Libya, a military official and lawmaker said.
PARIS (Reuters) - Russia's expanding influence in Central African Republic (CAR), a former French colony, over the past months is not likely to stabilise the country, French Defense Minister Florence Parly told weekly Jeune Afrique.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Children in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are dying from Ebola at an unprecedented rate due largely to poor sanitary practices at clinics run by traditional healers, the health ministry said on Sunday.
REMADA, Tunisia (Reuters) - Tunisian Zubair Abdel-Moula lost his work selling smuggled fuel on the streets of a poor southern town after the government tightened controls with Libya to stop militants crossing the 460km (286 miles) border.
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