ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's government has signed an agreement to end hostilities with the Oromo Liberation Front, which it had previously declared a terrorist movement, state television reported on Tuesday.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The Ebola outbreak in Congo is confirmed to be the Zaire strain of the virus and vaccinations of health workers may start as early as Wednesday, a senior official of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three Russian TV journalists killed in Central African Republic last month while investigating the activities of a clandestine firm of Russian private military contractors were laid to rest in Moscow on Tuesday.
LAGOS, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Nigeria's Zenith Bank expects to grow its loan book by 2.5 percent this year as a recovering economy and a drive to win business with manufacturers helps to offset a decline in credit in the first half, it said on Tuesday.
CAIRO, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Seven referees and linesmen from Ghana have been handed lengthy bans as the Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Tuesday announced a new round of sanctions for match officials caught up in a bribery sting.
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's acting leader dismissed the head of the state security agency on Tuesday, his spokesman said on Twitter.
LAGOS, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Nigeria's Zenith Bank expects to grow its loan book by 2.5 percent by the end of the year after credit declined in the first half, it said on Tuesday.
MORULENG, South Africa (Reuters) - A hardscrabble patch of South Africa disputed between black farmers and tribal leaders working with platinum mining interests is legal ground zero in a battle to loosen the chiefs' grip on communal lands.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Just after 10:30 on a sunny August morning in downtown Nairobi, 48-year-old Ali Mwadama was walking toward a bank opposite the U.S. embassy, a cheque in hand.
HARARE (Reuters) - A Zimbabwe court Tuesday freed on bail 27 opposition supporters arrested by police last week on accusations of fomenting post-election violence.
DAKAR (Reuters) - Three Congo Republic peacekeepers were given sentences of just three years in jail for murdering civilians and are now already free, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday, describing the sentences as inadequate and unlikely to discourage future abuse.
ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo sacked Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko on Monday, a statement from the presidency said, giving no official reason.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on Monday declared an amnesty for Simone Gbagbo, who had been convicted of offences against the state during a brief 2011 civil war.
GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - Health workers in Congo were setting up refrigerators on Monday to keep cool an Ebola vaccine needed to tackle an outbreak suspected to have infected 43 people, the health ministry said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping has congratulated Emmerson Mnangagwa on his election as Zimbabwe's president, state news agency Xinhua said on Tuesday, offering support after the African nation's opposition cried foul.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Security forces blocked the entrance to Nigeria's parliament on Tuesday, a Reuters witness said.
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