KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir told a rally of thousands of supporters on Wednesday he would stay in power, as protesters massed a few miles away calling for him to quit over an economic crisis.
WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia has suspended meat imports from South Africa due to the outbreak of the highly contagious foot and mouth disease, state broadcaster, NBC, said on Wednesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Zambian counterpart Edgar Lungu on Wednesday urged the Democratic Republic Congo's electoral commission to speedily release the result of the presidential vote to maintain stability.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Zambian counterpart Edgar Lungu on Wednesday urged the Democratic Republic Congo's electoral commission to speedily release the result of the presidential vote to maintain stability.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's military has released an editor two days after detaining him over an article about a planned offensive against Islamist militants in the northeast, his newspaper said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African judge ruled on Wednesday that the detention of Mozambican former finance minister Manuel Chang over $2 billion of fraudulent loans was legal.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Riot police deployed at the electoral commission headquarters in Kinshasa on Wednesday amid fears of a disputed result in a Democratic Republic of Congo presidential election marked by accusations of vote fraud.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari said in a statement on Wednesday that he will increase the minimum wage, but not by how much.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's electoral commission met all night and into Wednesday morning ahead of an announcement of results from the presidential election that could come later in the day.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean teachers were divided at the start of an indefinite strike on Tuesday, with those in towns reporting for class while their rural colleagues largely heeded calls by unions to boycott work to press the government to pay U.S. dollar salaries.
ABOARD SEA-WATCH 3 IN THE MEDITERRANEAN (Reuters) - Germany said on Tuesday it could take in some of the 300 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean in recent weeks, but dozens - including five children - remained stranded at sea with no European country offering a safe port.
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Madagascar's top court on Tuesday proclaimed former leader Andry Rajoelina winner of a hard-fought presidential vote, rejecting his rival's accusations of fraud.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, facing the most persistent protests since he seized power in 1989, on Wednesday dismissed calls for him to step down as security forces fired tear gas to break up a demonstration in the eastern city of al-Qadarif.
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