NEW YORK, Oct 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Major chocolate companies such as Godiva, Lindt and Hershey are failing to keep child labor out of their supply chains, according to a new ranking by activists released on Thursday.

ABIDJAN, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Top cocoa producers Ivory Coast and Ghana said on Thursday they would re-examine the cocoa industry's sustainability schemes as chocolate makers have been slow to pay the two nations a living income differential (LID) for their beans.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan appointed a woman as the head of its judiciary on Thursday for the first time in the history of the Arab Muslim country, the ruling Transitional Sovereignty Council said.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Thursday sanctioned three members of the Gupta family and their business associate for their involvement in corruption in South Africa.

MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique is due to hold presidential, provincial and legislative elections on Tuesday, two months after the country's two largest parties signed a peace deal that put a formal end to decades of violence.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Ebola epidemic in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been confined to a rural area rife with militias and people on the move, making it harder to stamp out altogether, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria is seeking $62 billion from oil companies under regulations that allow the government to revisit revenue-sharing deals on petroleum sales if crude prices exceed $20 a barrel, the attorney general told Reuters on Thursday.

MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique is due to hold presidential, provincial and legislative elections on Tuesday, two months after the country's two largest parties signed a peace deal that put a formal end to decades of violence.

JOHANNESBURG/MILAN (Reuters) - A Congolese presidential advisor played a key role in awarding oil licenses now at the heart of a corruption probe by Italian authorities that has engulfed energy giant Eni SpA and the family of its chief executive.

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco’s national carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has suspended a deal to purchase two more Boeing 737 MAX jets after the same model of aircraft crashed in Ethiopia, a source from the airline told Reuters on Thursday.

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria aims to team up with Cameroon to agree a premium for its cocoa with buyers, the vice president of the World Cocoa Producers Organisation told Reuters, after the world's top growers Ivory Coast and Ghana set a price floor for the crop.

LYON, France (Reuters) - International donors are set to pledge $14 billion on Thursday to combating AIDS, said French President Emmanuel Macron.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The Somali government is keeping some donor funds offshore and none of the ministries have completed last year's accounts, the auditor general said in a report published on Wednesday.

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco announced a cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday, reducing the number of jobs to 23 but keeping the foreign, finance and interior ministers in their posts.

TUNIS (Reuters) - The moderate Islamist Ennahda will be the largest party in Tunisia's new parliament, preliminary official results showed on Wednesday, but with only 52 of 217 seats it may struggle to build a governing coalition.