KINSHASA (Reuters) - Attackers set fire to an Ebola treatment centre run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo late on Sunday, forcing staff to evacuate patients, the charity said.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government has a trust problem as it introduces a discounted currency in a bid to reverse chronic cash shortages that left people struggling to get hold of basic goods.
ABIDJAN, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Above average rains last week in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa growing regions were expected to boost the development of the April-to-September mid-crop, farmers said on Monday.
RABAT (Reuters) - Prince Harry and his pregnant wife Meghan swapped their party gear for chinos and jeans as they wrapped up their Moroccan trip with visits to an equestrian centre and a cooking event on Monday.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The old centre of Benghazi lies in ruins but one shopping street has sprung up in the war-ravaged Libyan city, with sportswear and fashion stores that would not be out of place in Dubai or Istanbul.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa said on Monday it had cancelled contracts with services firm Bosasa after one of the company's former executives told a judicial inquiry he had handed out cash bribes in designer bags to politicians.
LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon President Ali Bongo returned to his country late on Sunday for the second time since suffering a stroke in October, a source at the presidency told Reuters on Monday.
SOFIA, Feb 25 (Reuters) - CSKA Sofia's Ghana international Edwin Gyasi said he was the victim of racial abuse from Levski Sofia fans during his team's 1-0 loss in the Bulgarian league on Sunday.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's commercial banks started trading the RTGS dollar on Monday, but authorities offered no indication as to how ordinary citizens would interact with the country's new transitional currency five days after it was introduced.
ABUJA (Reuters) - A week-long delay in holding Nigeria's presidential election, which took place on Saturday, probably hurt voter turnout, an official with the joint United States observer mission said on Monday.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's election took place in a generally peaceful environment, the head of the African Union observer mission said on Monday, in his first public comments about the delayed presidential poll on Saturday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a tribunal to fast-track legal proceedings from graft investigations by the country's Special Investigating Unit (SIU), the presidency said on Sunday.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of demonstrators on a third straight day of rare political protests against plans for rarely seen President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to extend his 20-year rule by seeking a fifth term.
DAKAR/FATICK, Senegal (Reuters) - Senegal President Macky Sall's team claimed he won re-election in the first-round of voting on Sunday, but the opposition said preliminary election results showed a run-off was unavoidable.
ABUJA (Reuters) - As many as 39 people have been killed in election violence in Nigeria, civil society groups said on Sunday, as the country awaited the results of voting in what was forecast to be its tightest election since the end of military rule in 1999.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government has a trust problem as it introduces a discounted currency in a bid to reverse chronic cash shortages that left people struggling to get hold of basic goods.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese security forces used tear gas to disperse protesters on Sunday, as opponents of President Omar al-Bashir defied a state of emergency he declared on Friday and took to the streets again in cities across the country.
ABUJA (Reuters) - As many as 39 people have been killed in election violence in Nigeria, civil society groups said on Sunday, as the country awaited the results of voting in what was forecast to be its tightest election since the end of military rule in 1999.
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