ALGIERS (Reuters) - Thousands of Algerians gathered in the capital on Friday to protest against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's plan to extend his 20-year rule by seeking a fifth term in the April elections, witnesses said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African farmers are lining up to plant more rooibos tea as demand for the anti-oxidant-rich red brew it produces grows, but a natural limit on suitable land may mean supply will struggle to keep pace.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Heavy gunfire rang out across central Mogadishu on Friday as Somali special forces battled to dislodge insurgents holed up next to a hotel they bombed the previous evening, and as the death toll stemming from that attack neared 30.
PRETORIA (Reuters) - The 2018 death toll in South Africa's mines fell slightly, to 81 fatalities from 90 in the previous year, the Mineral Resources Ministry said on Friday.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The death toll from an Al Shabaab suicide car bombing at a Mogadishu hotel rose to 29 with 80 wounded, police said on Friday, as a gun battle raged at the site of the blast between fighters of the militant group and Somali troops.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A gun battle raged in Mogadishu on Friday between Somali soldiers and Al Shabaab fighters, holed up in a building next to a hotel they had hit with a suicide car bomb the previous evening.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecutor ordered on Thursday the detention of six people for four days in connection with a locomotive that smashed through the buffers and burst into flames at Cairo’s main train station on Wednesday.
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