ABUJA (Reuters) - The death toll from an attack last week by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria's Kaduna State has doubled to more than 130 people, the state governor said on Tuesday, adding that the motive appeared to be ethnic.

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's parliament on Tuesday approved the long-delayed carbon tax bill as it seeks to reduce harmful carbon emissions in Africa's most industrialised and polluting country.

ABUJA (Reuters) - The death toll from an attack last week by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria's Kaduna State has doubled to more than 130 people, the state governor said on Tuesday, adding that the motive appeared to be ethnic.

GENEVA, Feb 19 (Reuters) - More than 100,000 people have been displaced by factional fighting and lawlessness in Burkina Faso, most within the past two months, according to a U.N. report published on Tuesday.

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A Tanzanian court sentenced a prominent Chinese businesswoman dubbed the "Ivory Queen" to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for smuggling the tusks of more than 350 elephants to Asia - a big victory in the battle to stamp out poaching in Africa.

DAKAR (Reuters) - For fashion designer Sophie Zinga, working to create a fairer Senegal should be a priority for its next leader - and if he can turn the country into a magnet for the creative arts too then all the better.

DAKAR (Reuters) - President Macky Sall is the strong favourite to win Senegal's election on Sunday, boosted by a modernising first term that propelled economic growth although critics accuse him of jailing his rivals for political gain.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces killed 16 suspected militants in two separate raids in the city of Arish in North Sinai, state-run Al Ahram said on Tuesday.

DAKAR (Reuters) - In a campaign video featuring images of fireballs and flashing lights, Senegalese President Macky Sall is depicted in front of an express train, a motorway, a glass high-rise and then a sports arena.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Workers at Port Sudan's southern container terminal went on strike on Monday to protest against a deal with Philippine port operator International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI), port employees and a union official said.

DAKAR (Reuters) - For Yaya Niass, who cuts hair in a roadside shack on the outskirts of Dakar, the time for political change in Senegal - and in Africa as a whole - is well overdue.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe said on Monday that he would not buy any assets which struggling state power firm Eskom puts up for sale, in response to speculation that he was eyeing an Eskom financial subsidiary.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Two policemen were killed and three wounded when an explosive device carried by a militant they were pursuing detonated in the heart of the Egyptian capital on Monday, an interior ministry statement said.

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 19 (Reuters) - South Africa's AngloGold Ashanti reported higher full-year earnings on Tuesday, boosted by lower amortisation after the closure and sale of some of its assets, and a higher income from its Kibali operations.

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 19 (Reuters) - South Africa's AngloGold Ashanti reported higher earnings on Tuesday, boosted by lower amortisation after the closure and sale of some of its assets, and a higher income from its Kibali operations.