KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo opposition parties said election officials were trying to provoke trouble by delaying Sunday's scheduled presidential election, and warned they would not tolerate any move to further postpone the contest.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese aviation firm Gomair lost contact with a cargo plane on Thursday evening as it flew back to Kinshasa after delivering materials for the upcoming presidential election, a senior manager at the airline told Reuters.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa on Thursday appointed a new chief executive officer to state-run arms firm Denel as the government tries to turnaround the cash-strapped company plagued by years of mismanagement.
TUNIS (Reuters) - Libya's coast guard has intercepted about 15,000 migrants trying to reach Italy by sea this year, a spokesman said on Thursday, while the United Nations - which gave a much higher estimate - said many were kept in inhumane conditions and subjected to abuse.
LONDON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Doubts are growing about whether the world’s emergency stockpile of 300,000 Ebola vaccine doses is enough to control future epidemics as the deadly disease moves out of rural forest areas and into urban mega-cities.
PARIS (Reuters) - A French jihadist suspected of helping the brothers who carried out the 2015 Charlie Hebdo killings has been arrested in Djibouti and is awaiting transfer to France, French Defence Minister Florence Parly said on Friday.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's election board has postponed a long-anticipated presidential vote scheduled for Sunday by one week until Dec. 30 after a fire destroyed voting materials.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Sudanese government spokesman said on Friday that nationwide protests over soaring prices that have left at least eight people dead in the past two days had been "derailed and transformed by infiltrators".
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