JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has fired the suspended head of the South African Revenue Service (SARS) Tom Moyane, the Business Day newspaper reported on Thursday, citing president spokeswoman Khusela Diko.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans overwhelmingly support changing the constitution to allow land to be expropriated without compensation, parliament said on Thursday, announcing the findings of a draft report that followed public hearings on the issue.
GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. watchdog told Sudan on Thursday to prosecute security forces for attacks in Darfur from 2014-2016 and cooperate with the International Criminal Court, which has issued an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir for alleged war crimes.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Thursday that Australia's Invictus Energy had found oil and gas deposits in the northern Muzarabani area of the country.
EDENVILLE, South Africa (Reuters) - Earlier this year, Nick Serfontein wrote an open letter to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa asking him to take the views of white farmers on board as the government considers expropriating land without compensation to reduce rural poverty.
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Police arrested a Tanzanian opposition politician on Wednesday after he said scores of people were killed in clashes between security forces and pastoralists in the country's west, his party said.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Thursday that Australia's Invictus Energy had found oil and gas deposits in the northern Muzarabani area of the country.
BANJUL (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Charles congratulated Gambia on Thursday for turning its back on "autocratic" rule at home and returning to the Commonwealth fold as he began a nine-day Africa tour.
BANJUL, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Charles congratulated Gambia on Thursday for turning its back on "autocratic" rule at home and returning to the Commonwealth fold as he began a nine-day Africa tour.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected members of the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency killed at least 15 people in an attack on a group of villages in northeast Nigeria late on Wednesday, residents told Reuters.
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - No matter who wins Madagascar's presidential election next week, Soloniaina Rakotomamonjy wants the victor to bring jobs to a country shackled by poverty despite immense resource wealth.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected members of the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency killed at least 15 people in an attack on a group of villages in northeast Nigeria late on Wednesday, residents told Reuters.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's parliament on Thursday swore in the country's first female supreme court president, building on efforts by reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to achieve gender parity in government.
NAIROBI/KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It wasn't long after Joe's father was shot dead for being gay that the 24-year-old Ugandan college student realised the men from his church would be coming for him next.
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