HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday named a commission including a South African ex-president and a British human rights lawyer to investigate the death of six people in an army crackdown on post-election protests early this month.
ABUJA/LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - British Prime Minister Theresa May vowed on Wednesday to help Nigeria clamp down on human trafficking to Europe and support victims of modern slavery who return to the West African nation.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Skulls and other remains of massacred tribespeople used in the colonial era for experiments to push claims of European racial superiority were handed over by Germany to Namibia at a church ceremony in Berlin.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Shoppers were evacuated from the Mall of Africa, one of South Africa's largest shopping complexes, on Wednesday as police searched for a bomb after receiving a threat, police said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - One person was shot dead and foreign-owned shops were looted as violence erupted in the South African township of Soweto on Wednesday, police said.
LONDON/DOUALA, Cameroon (Reuters) - Cocoa firms operating in Cameroon have moved staff out of the Anglophone region of the country and farmers are abandoning their crops in the area, as violence between separatists and security forces intensifies, exporters and farmers told Reuters.
CAIRO/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A bout of fighting in Libya's capital has laid bare the fragility of a militia cartel that had brought a veneer of stability to the city and encouraged the gradual return of foreign diplomats and plans for elections in December.
DAKAR (Reuters) - It is too soon to say that an outbreak of Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo is stabilising even if new cases are emerging at a slower rate, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - United States forces conducted an air strike in coordination with Somalia's army that killed three al Shabaab fighters, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's high court on Wednesday temporarily halted criminal proceedings against the deputy Supreme Court justice who was arrested a day earlier and charged on suspicion of corruption, failure to pay taxes and improper dealings with a local bank.
ABUJA/MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigerian government officials have ordered thousands of displaced people to return to an unsafe area as pressure mounts to show progress in the war against Islamist groups ahead of a presidential election, according to sources familiar with the situation.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's presidency has rebuffed a landmark oil industry reform law in its current form, according to two people familiar with the matter, in a setback for plans to reinvigorate investment in Africa's largest crude producer.
HARTBEESFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - Herman Pretorius is just the kind of white South African farmer U.S. President Donald Trump expressed concern for when he barged into the country's delicate land reform debate by ordering an investigation into the "large-scale killing of farmers".
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Five Kenyan soldiers were killed and 10 wounded on Wednesday when their car ran over a homemade bomb in northern Kenya, the military said.
ABUJA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The father of a Nigerian schoolgirl kidnapped by Boko Haram called on Tuesday for the government to do more to secure her freedom after audio of her begging for help was released.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike killed a suspected Islamic State militant in Libya on Tuesday, the U.S. Africa Command said.
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - A truck caught fire and exploded on Sunday at Glencore's Mangara oilfield in Chad, injuring three employees and forcing production to be suspended, the company said on Tuesday.
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