MILAN (Reuters) - Italian oil and gas company Eni on Monday denied allegations that it was involved in corruption in the Republic of Congo and said it was cooperating with Italian prosecutors.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - At least one person was killed and three others injured when a car bomb went off in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Monday, police said.

ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - The death toll from an Islamic State attack on a security convoy in Egypt's North Sinai province has climbed to 18 policemen, including two officers, security and medical sources said on Monday.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police detained a lawmaker from the ruling party and a former opposition senator on Monday over allegations of hate speech, a spokesman for the interior ministry said.

ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Four Egyptian policemen were killed and three others injured when an improvised explosive device went off on Monday near a security convoy in Sinai Peninsula, security and medical sources said.

MASHABA, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Until recently, farmers in this town in southern Zimbabwe struggled to water their crops, frustrated by poor rainfall and the regular breakdown of the diesel engines that powered their irrigation systems.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's telecoms operators will begin offering high-speed 4G mobile broadband services in September, the telecoms minister said on Monday.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's First Lady, Grace Mugabe, has denied assaulting South African model Gabriella Engels with an electric cable in a Johannesburg hotel suite last month, saying an "intoxicated and unhinged" Engels attacked her with a knife.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Heavy fighting erupted on Monday in the Somali border town of Balad Hawo near Kenya after Al Shabaab detonated a suicide car bomb and then stormed the military base there, the spokesman of the al Qaeda-linked group told Reuters.

KINSHASA (Reuters) - More than 500 people have died so far in a cholera epidemic that is sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.