CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt will soon reopen the century-old Baron Empain Palace after a $6 million renovation of the Indian-inspired mansion built by a wealthy Belgian engineer in the upmarket Heliopolis district of the capital Cairo.
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad's Council of Ministers on Monday declared a state of emergency in three provinces because of a decline in security, a government spokesman said in a statement.
HARARE (Reuters) - A Zimbabwe court on Monday dismissed a challenge by the main opposition party over a police ban on its planned anti-government demonstration in the western city of Bulawayo.
ABIDJAN, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Rains last week in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa growing regions were below average but dew and good soil moisture content augured well for the next October-to-March main crop, farmers told Reuters on Monday.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's ousted president Omar Hassan al-Bashir acknowledged receiving millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, a police detective told a court on Monday at the start of a corruption trial that many Sudanese thought they would never see.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's deposed leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir told investigators he had received millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, a detective said in court on Monday.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's ousted president Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Monday arrived amid heavy security at the courthouse in the capital Khartoum where he is facing corruption charges, a Reuters witness said.
GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - Congolese authorities have confirmed a new case of Ebola in the remote, militia-controlled province of Walikale, hundreds of kilometres away from where previous cases near the border with Uganda and Rwanda occurred, the Health Ministry said overnight.
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (Reuters) - Soldiers and police deployed in large numbers in Zimbabwe's second city Bulawayo on Monday to enforce a ban on an anti-government demonstration, as the country's main opposition party sought to overturn that decision in court.
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (Reuters) - Soldiers and police deployed in large numbers in Zimbabwe's second city Bulawayo on Monday to enforce a ban on an anti-government demonstration, as the country's main opposition party sought to overturn that decision in court.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe police have banned an anti-government demonstration planned for Monday by the country's main opposition party in the city of Bulawayo, saying it would likely result in "public disorder".
KAMPALA (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed when a fuel truck exploded in flames after losing control and ramming into three cars in western Uganda on Sunday, police said in a statement.
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