DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania has launched a manhunt for suspects in the abduction and murder of up to 10 children this month in cases believed to be linked to witchcraft, the home affairs minister said on Wednesday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - More than 100 migrants are believed missing and 38 confirmed dead off the coast of Djibouti after two boats capsized, the U.N. migration agency said on Wednesday.
ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian appeals court ruled on Wednesday that a code of conduct tribunal can try the country's top judge, who has been suspended for allegedly breaking wealth declaration rules, according to a Reuters witness.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's largest labour union group, with more than a million and a half members, said on Wednesday it would stage a nationwide strike on Feb. 13 over large-scale layoffs at ailing state-owned firms and at private companies.
SHENDI, Sudan (Reuters) - Fed up by months of bread queues, price hikes and petrol shortages in Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir's hometown of Shendi, office worker Louay Mohamed Kheir, feels there's only one solution: "We need a new president."
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese security forces on Wednesday detained Mariam Sadiq al-Mahdi, the daughter of a senior opposition leader who was Sudan's last democratically elected prime minister, her family said.
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania's parliament passed amendments to legislation late on Tuesday that give sweeping powers to a government-appointed registrar over political parties, a move that opposition legislators say will cement "one-party rule".
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government will hold last-ditch negotiations with public sector unions on Wednesday to try to avert a national strike that could trigger more unrest after this month's violent protests.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's biggest teachers' union said on Tuesday its members would go on strike over pay from Feb. 5, putting pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government on the eve of crunch wage negotiations with public sector unions.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's security chief has ordered the release of people detained during weeks of anti-government protests, the information ministry said on Tuesday, as demonstrations continued in several cities.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - At least 15 mass graves have been found in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo in the wake of three days of ethnic bloodshed in December, a spokeswoman for the U.N.'s MONUSCO mission in Congo said on Tuesday.
GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 130 African migrants were missing off Djibouti after two overloaded boats capsized in rough seas on Tuesday, the United Nations migration agency said.
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania's parliament passed amendments to legislation late on Tuesday that give sweeping powers to a government-appointed registrar over political parties, a move that opposition legislators say will cement "one-party rule".
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