MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Islamist militants and Nigerian troops have been fighting around a fishing town on Lake Chad as the insurgents step up attacks in the run-up to a presidential election in which security is a campaign issue, the army and residents said.
(Reuters) - Troubled African carrier Fastjet Plc said on Friday its CFO Michael Muller will leave the company in March next year.
FREETOWN (Reuters) - A former Sierra Leone defence minister and his deputy were arrested on Friday as part of a crackdown by President Julius Maada Bio's administration on alleged graft by its predecessor, the country's anti-corruption commissioner said.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces have killed 40 suspected militants in three separate incidents in North Sinai and Giza, the ministry of interior said on Saturday, a day after a deadly bombing on a Vietnamese tourist bus in Giza killed four people.
Uyo, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's ruling party held a rally to mark the launch of President Muhammadu Buhari's re-election bid on Friday in the southern city of Uyo, hours after naming a campaign team which includes Africa's richest man.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrea has blocked entry for Ethiopians at one of the border crossings that opened this year after the neighbours ended a long military standoff and restored relations, an Ethiopian official and people who live near the crossing said on Friday.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Progress in fighting Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak, the second worst ever, will be reversed if fighting continues around the disease hotspots of Beni and Butembo, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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