LONDON (Reuters) - British authorities are preparing to deport a former UBS trader jailed for the country's biggest fraud which cost the Swiss bank $2.25 billion, his spokesman said on Monday.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan police on Monday gave a second opposition lawmaker the green light to travel abroad for medical treatment after he said he had been tortured in custody, but they also charged him with treason, his lawyer said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Four people were killed in an explosion at a South African munitions depot in Somerset West, near Cape Town, News24 online service said on Monday.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe is donating 10 white rhinos to Democratic Republic of Congo to re-establish a population driven to extinction by poachers a decade ago, Zimbabwe's wildlife authority said.
BERLIN (Reuters) - More than $1 billion in fresh aid will likely be pledged at a conference of donors to the drought-plagued region around Lake Chad, U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock said on Monday.
ABIDJAN, Sept 3 (Reuters) - A new wave of small cocoa pods is growing on trees in top producer Ivory Coast ahead of the October-to-March main crop harvest despite below average rainfall last week, farmers said on Monday.
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Mauritius argued at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday that Britain had unduly pressured it to give up the Chagos Islands in 1965 in exchange independence, as it weighed claims to the archipelago which now houses a major U.S. military base.
ACCRA, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Ghana may issue a 100-year $50 billion bond as part of the West African nation's long-term industrialisation plan aimed at weaning the country off aid, its president said at a meeting with his Chinese counterpart.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will provide $60 billion in financial support to Africa, President Xi Jinping said on Monday at the opening of a major China-Africa summit.
ACCRA, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Ghana is considering a century bond worth $50 billion as part of the West African nation's plan to secure long-term funding to build critical infrastructure for industrial development, its leader said.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Two people were killed when a rocket hit a camp for displaced people in Libya's capital on Sunday as fighting between rival armed groups continued to rage, an activist said.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Some 400 prisoners escaped from a jail in Libya's capital on Sunday while fighting between rival armed groups raged nearby, a judiciary official said as the United Nations called for the warring parties to meet on Tuesday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese funds are not for "vanity projects" in Africa but are to build infrastructure that can remove development bottlenecks, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday, telling Chinese firms they also had to respect local people and the environment.
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