* Fairtrade looks to coach companies on in-house certification
CAPE TOWN, Oct 10 (Reuters) - A decision on Sierra Leone, who have been banned by FIFA and stopped from playing two African Nations Cup qualifiers over the next five days, will not be taken before the end of November, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) said on Wednesday.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed reached an agreement on Wednesday with several hundred soldiers who had marched on his office to demand pay rises and were invited in to see him, state television (ETV) reported.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African markets rallied after the appointment of former central banker Tito Mboweni as finance minister, an ANC insider and ally of President Cyril Ramaphosa expected to focus on wooing investors and reviving an economy in recession.
LONDON (Reuters) - The world's biggest trading houses said on Wednesday they saw oil prices not falling below $65 per barrel and possibly breaking above $100 next year as U.S. sanctions on Iran reduce crude exports from the Islamic republic.
GRUMETI, Tanzania (Reuters) - In Tanzania's Grumeti Game Reserve, next to Serengeti National Park, elephants roam, rangers sleep more peacefully at night, and poachers have been put on notice, thanks to new technology designed to protect one of the world's most endangered species.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police detained the youngest son of ousted former president Mohamed Mursi from his home on the outskirts of Cairo early on Wednesday, his brother and three security sources said.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - At least 50 people were killed in a bus crash between Nairobi and Kenya's western city of Kisumu on Wednesday, police told the Daily Nation, and President Uhuru Kenyatta said authorities were investigating what he called a catastrophic incident.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese authorities announced a ban on Wednesday on harbouring suspected Ebola patients and promised police protection for health workers at burials, in a bid to fight back against local resistance to efforts to combat the disease.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Two Kenyan teachers were killed on Wednesday when suspected al Shabaab militants threw an explosive device at a teacher’s house in Mandera county near the Somali border, police said.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - At least 50 people died in a bus crash on Wednesday between Kenya's capital Nairobi and the western city of Kisumu, police told the Daily Nation newspaper.
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Six African women with albinism who made an attempt on the continent's highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, said on Tuesday the trek was just the beginning of efforts to raise awareness and dispel negative images of people with the rare skin condition.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Workers downed tools on Wednesday at the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), which provides welfare grants to millions of poor people, the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (NEHAWU) said.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Shabaab Islamists on Tuesday shot five men in a public execution, including a Somali British citizen accused of spying, a sign of the insurgents' control of southern swathes of the country, even as authorities step up efforts to combat them.
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