JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Long known for singing and dancing at political rallies, former president Jacob Zuma has now been chosen as the voice of anti-apartheid liberation songs in a South African history project.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's High Court ruled on Monday that the security minister had no authority to order mobile operators to shut down internet access to customers during protests last week and that the firms should immediately restore unrestricted access.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Fourteen miners were killed in an eastern Rwandan tin mine after a hill collapsed on them after heavy rains, an official said on Monday.
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Kabore on Monday named Christophe Joseph Marie Dabire, a former health minister and regional monetary union official, as his new prime minister, the presidency said in a statement.
PARIS (Reuters) - Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, said on Monday he expected to step up exports of cement and other commodities from Nigeria from this year as he focuses on foreign markets to boost sales and generate much-needed hard currency.
ABIDJAN, Jan 21 (Reuters) - A mix of strong rains and sunny spells last week in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa regions augurs well for the April-to-September mid-crop's development, farmers said on Monday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police have thwarted an attack by suspected Somali militants al Shabaab on a Chinese-owned construction company in an eastern region, an official said on Monday, days after the Islamist group killed 21 people in Nairobi.
HARARE (Reuters) - Legal challenges to a brutal clampdown on dissent by Zimbabwe's government were set in motion on Monday, as fears that the country is veering back towards authoritarian rule drove some leaders of the main opposition party into hiding.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo's political standoff deepened on Sunday after the top court backed the contested presidential election victory of Felix Tshisekedi, then his main rival rejected the ruling, called for protests and declared himself leader.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The relatively swift end to an attack on a Nairobi hotel and office complex highlights improvements in Kenya's counterterrorism capabilities since Somali militants overran a shopping mall in the same neighbourhood five years ago.
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Ten U.N. peacekeepers from Chad were killed and at least 25 were wounded while repelling an attack by armed assailants near a village in northern Mali on Sunday, the West African nation's U.N. mission and the United Nations said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa turned down a request from its southern African neighbour Zimbabwe for a $1.2 billion loan in December, a spokesman for the finance ministry said on Monday.
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