DAKAR, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Ghana's central bank has revoked the licenses of five badly performing banks and appointed a receiver to manage their assets, it said in a statement on Wednesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's white farmers on Wednesday criticised the ruling African National Congress' (ANC) decision to endorse constitutional changes to allow the state to seize land without compensation, saying the move would be "catastrophic".
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Fifteen Malian opposition candidates demanded on Wednesday that the government investigate what they said was fraud in Sunday's presidential election, which was beset by armed attacks and problems with the distribution of voting cards.
RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's King Mohammed VI sacked the Minister for Economy and Finance, Mohamed Boussaid, according to a statement from the Royal Cabinet on Wednesday.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - A new Ebola virus outbreak has been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Governor Julien Paluku said on Wednesday, a week after the country declared an end to a separate outbreak that killed 33 people in the northwest.
HARARE (Reuters) - One person was shot dead by Zimbabwean soldiers near a bus rank in central Harare on Wednesday after troops were deployed to quell protests over this week's presidential election, witnesses told a Reuters photographer.
HARARE (Reuters) - Automatic gunfire was heard on the streets of the Zimbabwean capital Harare on Wednesday, after opposition supporters clashed with police, two Reuters witnesses said.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean police fired tear gas in central Harare on Wednesday to disperse stone-throwing supporters of the opposition MDC party, according to Reuters witnesses and live television images.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) is forging ahead with plans to change the constitution to allow the expropriation of land without compensation.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The leadership of an exiled Ethiopian dissident group previously outlawed by the government has announced plans to return home in the wake of reforms led by new premier Abiy Ahmed.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF has attained two-thirds majority in the National Assembly of parliament, which allows the party to change the constitution at will, official results showed.
HARARE (Reuters) - European Union observers on Wednesday said Zimbabwe's elections had several problems, including media bias, voter intimidation and mistrust in the electoral commission and questioned delays in releasing the presidential results.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Public hospitals in Uganda have been hit by shortages of essential medicines and supplies needed for emergency care, a health workers' association said, further hurting services at facilities already struggling from years of neglect.
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a convoy carrying election materials in central Mali, triggering a shootout in which four soldiers and eight attackers were killed, a Defence Ministry spokesman said by telephone on Wednesday.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's presidential and parliamentary vote was peaceful and orderly and opened the door to strengthen the country's democracy, election observers from the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) bloc said on Wednesday.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba returned home on Wednesday after a decade in prison in The Hague for a presidential run expected to pose a stiff challenge to President Joseph Kabila or his successor in December's election.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - DRC opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba arrived in the Congolese capital Kinshasa on Wednesday to submit his candidacy for president after a decade in prison in The Hague, a Reuters witness said.
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia has agreed to accept a boat carrying around 40 African migrants stranded for two weeks off the country's coast after first allowing it to dock, the Red Crescent said on Tuesday.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Supporters of Congolese opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba gathered in the streets of the capital Kinshasa on Wednesday ahead of his return home to run for president after a decade in prison in The Hague.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer for Germany on Tuesday urged a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought against the country on behalf of the Herero and Nama people of what is now Namibia over genocide and seizure of property carried out by German colonists more than 100 years ago.
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