LAGOS (Reuters) - It looked like the end had arrived for Adewale Fatai's chicken farm. Money was running out. Built to house 30,000 chickens, the farm was producing fewer than 2,000 chicks. His family had no funds to lend, and Nigeria's banks weren't interested.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday rejected a newspaper report that he failed to stop 1.9 billion rand ($132 million) being illegally siphoned from VBS Mutual Bank.
MORONI (Reuters) - Protesters barricaded roads with tree trunks, stoned cars and clashed with soldiers in the Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros on Monday in demonstrations against President Azali Assoumani's bid to extend term limits, officials said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thousands of South African plastics sector workers began a strike on Monday over pay and benefits, halting operations at some companies, the union and firms said.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A fire was reported at a fuel depot at Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the capital Nairobi, privately-owned Standard Newspaper said on its website.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A year after their father was among nearly 600 Somalis killed in a fireball, the 32 children of Abdullah Mohamud plunged into poverty by his death are among the thousands still suffering the aftershocks what may be history's deadliest suicide bombing.
ABIDJAN, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Sunny spells last week in most of Ivory Coast's main cocoa regions were expected to boost the development of the October to March main crop, farmers said on Monday, though overly wet weather in the east caused disease issues.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Google, said on Monday it would offer Motorbike Mode on Google Maps in Kenya, offering the voice navigation service for bike riders in Africa for the first time.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The number of people killed in twin suicide bomb attacks on two restaurants in Somalia's southern city of Baidoa has risen to 20 and another 40 people were injured, a local hospital official said on Sunday.
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