CAIRO (Reuters) - A museum commemorating the life and works of Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz has opened in Cairo, nearly 13 years after the Nobel laureate's death.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's government has suspended the head of grains agency OAIC over corruption allegations, sources close to the prime minister's office said, creating uncertainty for traders who supply one of the world's biggest cereal importers.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Amhara Democratic Party (ADP) named the security adviser to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as head of the restive Amhara region on Monday after his predecessor was killed in a violent attempt to seize power there.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President Jacob Zuma told a corruption inquiry on Monday that enemies had plotted to bring him down, and he had never broken the law with the business family at the centre of an influence-peddling scandal.
LONDON (Reuters) - More than one in 10 children - or 20 million worldwide - missed out last year on vaccines against life-threatening diseases such as measles, diphtheria and tetanus, the World Health Organization and the UNICEF children's fund said on Monday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African president Jacob Zuma told a corruption inquiry on Monday that he had never broken the law with the Gupta family, describing the businessmen at the centre of an influence-peddling scandal as friends.
HARARE (Reuters) - A Zimbabwean opposition politician facing charges of advocating the overthrow of President Emmerson Mnangagwa was freed on bail by the High Court on Monday after spending six days in detention, his lawyer said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African president Jacob Zuma told a corruption inquiry on Monday that he had never broken the law with the Gupta family, describing the businessmen at the centre of an influence-peddling scandal as friends.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak could last much longer and cost far more in money and lives unless U.N. member states inject hundreds of millions of dollars now, U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock told Reuters on Monday.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Unidentified attackers killed two Ebola health workers in eastern Congo over the weekend, the health ministry said, the latest in a string of assaults that have hampered efforts to stop the deadly spread of the virus.
CAIRO, July 15 (Reuters) - An own goal in extra time and a controversial Video Assistant Referee decision contrived to deny Tunisia a place in the Africa Cup of Nations final but they also have themselves to blame for missing chances against more fancied Senegal in the semi-final.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African president Jacob Zuma told a corruption inquiry on Monday that there was a conspiracy against him and that his enemies had subjected him to a "character assassination" because they wanted him out of power.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Burundi has appointed the head of the ruling party youth league to head its state-run broadcaster, a move an opposition party has described as a danger to press freedom.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - The first case of Ebola in the eastern Congo city of Goma was discovered on Sunday, officials said, raising concerns the virus could spread quicker in a densely populated area close to the Rwandan border.
(Reuters) - South Africa's Bidvest Group on Monday said it will acquire Enx Group's Eqstra Fleet Management and Logistics in a deal worth 3.1 billion rand ($222.34 million) on an enterprise value basis.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African president Jacob Zuma will be questioned at a public inquiry into state graft on Monday, a dramatic fall from grace for a politician who has cast a long shadow over the country's politics for the past decade.
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