MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Suicide attackers set off two car bombs at a hotel near the headquarters of Somalia's Criminal Investigations Department in Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 17 people, police said.
LISBON (Reuters) - Taxify, a European-based rival to Uber and the leading app-based taxi-hailing platform in Africa, expects to grow its African business ten-fold over the next two years while it works to dethrone Uber in Europe, its chief executive told Reuters.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A loud explosion followed by heavy gunfire could be heard in the heart of Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Friday, a Reuters witness said.
SYDNEY/MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A Somali-born man set fire to a pickup truck laden with gas cylinders in the centre of the Australian city of Melbourne on Friday and stabbed three people, killing one, before he was shot by police in a rampage they called an act of terrorism.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - U.S. firm CTI Africa plans to invest $10 million in Uganda to build a plant to assemble low-end smart mobile phones and manufacture phone components, its chief executive said on Friday.
PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa's government must urgently inject at least 7 billion rand ($491 million) into struggling state-owned defence group Denel, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) said on Friday.
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - The head of the European Union's observer mission to Madagascar's presidential election said on Friday that any irregularities found so far were minor and unlikely to affect the results.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - At Suzuki Motor Corp's showroom in the Kenyan capital, hundreds of its Alto compact cars are waiting to be collected.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A lawmaker from Kenya's ruling party has proposed limiting foreign involvement in public contracts after what he said was an outcry about an influx of Chinese businesses driving out local companies.
BAMENDA, Cameroon (Reuters) - Children kidnapped by gunmen in western Cameroon said their captors had warned them not to go back to school, recounting their ordeal as parents on Thursday packed up belongings from a boarding school now being shuttered.Kidnappers freed about 80 school children and a driver in west Cameroon on Wednesday, but kept hold of a principal and one teacher, two days after snatching them in a school raid.
LONDON, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Scientists in Britain expressed concern on Thursday after at least 17 delegates from Africa and Asia wanting to attend a health conference in London were denied visas.
PARIS (Reuters) - France's Soufflet, one of Europe's biggest grain handlers, plans to open an office in West Africa to boost trade with a region increasingly turning to Russia for wheat.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is worried about the outbreak of Ebola in conflict-hit eastern Congo where there are 312 confirmed and probable cases and 191 deaths, a USAID official said on Thursday.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Police in Ethiopia have uncovered a grave containing at least 200 bodies along the border between the strife-torn Oromiya and Somali regions, state-affiliated media said.
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