KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's parliament has passed a law expanding financial privileges for former presidents, lawmakers said on Thursday, a move seen as an incentive for President Joseph Kabila to step down following an election in December.
DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal sentenced 13 people to prison on Thursday for their attempt to establish a homegrown jihadist cell modelled on Boko Haram.
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon has arrested four soldiers suspected of shooting dead two women and two children in the country's far north where its army is battling jihadist group Boko Haram, two security sources told Reuters.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two anti-slavery activists freed from prison in Mauritania vowed an all-out fight to rescue their nation from one of the world's worst slavery rates, saying jail and torture were no deterrent.
ACCRA, July 19 (Reuters) - Ghana is introducing an additional tax band for high personal income earners as part of measures by the West African country to shore up government revenue, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said on Thursday.
NAIROBI, July 19 (Reuters) - Kenya's local currency is likely to come under pressure next week but the Nigerian, Zambian and Ugandan currencies should remain stable.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrea has pulled troops back from its heavily militarised border with Ethiopia as a "gesture of reconciliation", the pro-government Eritrean Press agency said on its Facebook page.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrea has pulled troops back from the heavily militarised border with Ethiopia as a "gesture of reconciliation", the pro-government Eritrean Press agency said on its Facebook page.
JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir said he is ready to accept a peace deal to end a civil war and set up an inclusive new government.
ASMARA (Reuters) - Eritrea has pulled troops back from the heavily militarised border with Ethiopia as a "gesture of reconciliation" with its giant neighbour and long-time foe, the pro-government Eritrean Press agency said on its Facebook page.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thousands of pages of U.S. intelligence documents on Nelson Mandela were made public on Wednesday, revealing that Washington continued to monitor the South African anti-apartheid hero as a potential Communist menace even after he was released from prison, a group that sued to obtain the papers said.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has appointed its first ambassador to Eritrea in two decades in the latest sign of rapprochement after a border war, the state-affiliated Fana news agency said on Thursday.
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