ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's army has arrested eight people planning to join Islamist militants in the neighboring Sahel region, the defence ministry said on Wednesday.

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A Tanzanian court on Wednesday postponed the hearing for the eighth time of a prominent Tanzanian journalist arrested in July in a case his lawyers and rights group say is politically motivated.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean police on Wednesday used batons, tear gas and water cannon to beat up and disperse supporters of the main opposition party who had gathered outside its building in the capital to listen to a speech by their leader.

HAWASSA, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Polls opened on Wednesday for Ethiopia's Sidama people to vote on self-determination in a referendum closely watched by other ethnic groups also seeking more autonomy since reforms by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed shook up the national power balance.

DUBAI, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Ghana became the latest African nation to support the development of an international airline to boost its economy and develop tourism as its government signed a provisional order for three Boeing long-haul 787 Dreamliner jets on Tuesday.

DUBAI, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Boeing Co won fresh support for its grounded 737 MAX at the Dubai Airshow on Tuesday as airlines laid out plans to buy up to 50 of the jets worth $6 billion at list prices, a day after securing the first firm order since a safety ban in March.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Jihadist violence in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso has forced nearly 1 million people to flee their homes, destroyed fragile agricultural economies and hobbled humanitarian aid efforts, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.

Nov 19 (Reuters) - De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd said on Tuesday it had obtained 11 more orders for its Dash 8-400 plane at the Dubai Airshow, as it revives the recently acquired turboprop business from Bombardier Inc.

HARARE (Reuters) - China accused Zimbabwe on Tuesday of understating its financial help to the southern African nation, after budget figures released last week showed that major ally Beijing ranked poorly on the list of Harare's foreign donors.

DUBAI, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The Republic of Ghana and Boeing signed a provisional order for three 787-9 Dreamliners on Tuesday at the Dubai Airshow.

DUBAI, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Flynas has signed an order for 10 long-range Airbus A321XLR jets, the Saudi budget airline said at the Dubai Airshow on Tuesday.

TRIPOLI/CAIRO (Reuters) - At least ten workers were killed and 35 wounded in an air strike that hit a biscuit factory in Libya on Monday in what a senior U.N official said was a possible war crime.

DUBAI, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Air Senegal signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for eight Airbus' A220 aircraft at the Dubai Airshow on Tuesday.

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Twenty-four Malian soldiers were killed and 29 wounded in an attack on an army patrol in northern Mali on Monday in which 17 militants were also killed, a spokesman for the army said.

DAKAR (Reuters) - Five months before an ambush killed 39 colleagues, local workers at a Canadian-owned gold mine in Burkina Faso pleaded with managers to fly them to the site rather than go by a road that was prone to attacks, two people present at the meeting said.

JOHANNESBURG, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Egypt, without injured striker Mo Salah, lacked a cutting edge in front of goal as they were held to a 0-0 draw by tiny Comoros Islands in their 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Monday.

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger's main opposition leader Hama Amadou is back behind bars after returning home from three years exile in France with the intention of completing his sentence before running for president, his lawyer said.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Online retailer Jumia Technologies, often called "the Amazon of Africa", suspended its e-commerce business in Cameroon on Monday, announcing in a statement that its transactional portal was "not suitable to the current context" in the country.

ABIDJAN, Nov 18 (Reuters) - * Ivory Coast cocoa grinders processed 47,000 tonnes of beans from the start of the season on Oct. 1 to the end of October, data from exporters' association GEPEX showed on Monday. * That is 4.4 % higher than the 45,000 tonnes processed in the same period last season. * The GEPEX data only covers six of the largest grinding companies, including Barry Callebaut, Olam and Cargill, among 12 active firms. * Ivory Coast has total grinding capacity of 712,000 tonnes. * The

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - British lawmaker Peter Hain will tell an inquiry on Monday that corruption under South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma was enabled by international banks, corporations and governments which should now seek to recover the loot they helped launder.