KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda said on Tuesday its ballooning public debt was sustainable and it would borrow with care in the future, dismissing concerns from the central bank and the government's auditor that growing indebtedness posed risks to the economy.
GAROWE, Somalia (Reuters) - A region of war-ravaged Somalia elected a new president on Tuesday, a peaceful transfer of power in a part of the country notorious for piracy and Islamist militias.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Representatives of a leading Congolese presidential candidate, Felix Tshisekedi, have met with outgoing President Joseph Kabila's camp to ensure a peaceful transfer of power, Tshisekedi's campaign said on Tuesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The highly contagious foot and mouth disease, which poses a threat to the livestock industry, has been detected in a northern district of South Africa's Limpopo province, the country said on Tuesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Lawyers for Mozambique's former finance minister Manuel Chang will challenge the lawfulness of Chang's detention in South Africa, they said in a Johannesburg court on Tuesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - At least two people were killed and dozens injured on Tuesday when two trains collided in the South African capital Pretoria, an emergency services official said.
MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique has indicted 18 citizens for their involvement in fraud involving $2 billion in loans to state-owned companies, the attorney general's office (AGO) said on Monday, in a scandal that has ensnared two major international banks.
BANJUL (Reuters) - Yahya Jammeh was going to be "trouble" for Gambia from the moment he seized power, the first witness to a commission convened to investigate rights abuses under his presidency said on Monday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The U.S. military killed six Islamist militants in an air strike in Somalia on Sunday in the vicinity of Dheerow Sanle, in the Lower Shabelle region, it said.
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