KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Tuesday reshuffled his senior military staff, the Defence Ministry said in a statement, days after announcing a nationwide state of emergency.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will submit his official application to seek re-election on March 3, his campaign manager said on Tuesday, despite protests against the move.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari extended his early election lead on Tuesday based on official results from a third of the country's districts as the death toll from sporadic election violence rose to 47.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Suspected al Shabaab militants shot and killed nine street cleaners in a village near Somalia's capital Mogadishu, police and a local governor said on Tuesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa is likely to harvest 20 percent less maize in 2019 compared with the previous season after drought conditions delayed plantings in some corn growing areas, a Reuters poll of five traders and market analysts showed on Tuesday.
TUNIS/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates is bringing together players in Libya's conflict and the state oil firm to try to reopen the El Sharara oilfield, the North African country's biggest, diplomats and other sources said on Monday.
HARARE (Reuters) - Botswana has offered to lend Zimbabwe $600 million to support its diamond industry and local private firms, a state-owned newspaper reported on Tuesday, amid a severe dollar crunch in the southern African nation.
SHARM EL-SHEIKH (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi defended the death penalty at a summit between Arab and European states on Monday, saying the two regions had "two different cultures".
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The World Court on Monday backed Mauritius in a colonial-era dispute over the Chagos Islands, saying Britain's handling of decolonisation and the displacement of islanders from the Indian Ocean archipelago had been unlawful.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Monday that a recent air strike in central Somalia killed 35 al Shabaab fighters.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Rami Malek's relatives in Egypt huddled around a TV set at home as if cheering the national soccer team, but they were celebrating his first best actor Oscar for his role in "Bohemian Rhapsody."
RABAT (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Harry and his pregnant wife Meghan wrapped up a visit to Morocco with a tea ceremony on Monday afternoon hosted by King Mohammed VI at a Royal palace in Sale, near Rabat.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir banned unlicensed public gatherings and gave sweeping new powers to police in a series of emergency decrees on Monday to counter the most sustained anti-government street unrest of his 30-year rule.
ABUJA (Reuters) - President Muhammadu Buhari took an early lead on Monday in initial official results from Nigeria's presidential election, but the party of his main challenger quickly rejected the tallies as "incorrect and unacceptable".
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