HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has been flown to China for medical treatment, a presidential spokesman said on Monday, but gave no details of the health problems that have kept Chiwenga away from work for more than two months.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's health minister, Oly Ilunga, resigned on Monday in protest at the presidency's announcement last week that it would take control of the response to the Ebola outbreak instead of his team.
ABIDJAN, July 22 (Reuters) - Rains were below average last week in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa growing regions and more sun was needed for the main October-to-March main crop to develop well, farmers said on Monday.
ABUJA (Reuters) - A Reuters photographer saw what appeared to be one dead body after clashes between Nigerian police and a group of Shi'ite Muslim protesters in the capital Abuja on Monday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan Finance Minister Henry Rotich was arrested on Monday on suspicion of financial misconduct related to the construction of two dams, an unprecedented detention of a sitting minister for corruption in a country notorious for graft.
TUNIS (Reuters) - A Libyan warplane made an emergency landing on a road in the southern Tunisian town of Beni Khadash on Monday and its pilot has been detained, according to Tunisia's state news agency TAP.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan Finance Minister Henry Rotich was arrested on Monday on suspicion of corruption related to the construction of two dams. Despite Kenya's notorious graft, it is unprecedented for a sitting minister to be arrested for corruption.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Constitutional Court ruled on Monday that an anti-corruption official who has accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of serious misconduct had acted in bad faith when investigating an apartheid-era bank bailout.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is to send 250 troops to the troubled African nation of Mali next year helping take part in the world's deadliest peacekeeping operation.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed and 27 others wounded when a bomb went off outside a hotel near the international airport in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Monday, medical officials said.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A loud explosion was heard in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Monday morning, followed by heavy gunfire.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan Finance Minister Henry Rotich and other officials will face charges over corruption related to the construction of two dams, the chief prosecutor said on Monday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday said he will seek an urgent judicial review of what he described as an irretrievably flawed report in which the country's graft watchdog said he misled parliament over a campaign donation.
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