WAJIR -- At least ten people were killed and several others injured after Islamist extremist group, al-Shabab, ambushed a commuter bus in northeast Kenya on Friday evening, the police said.
MOMBASA -- An international ladies golf tournament which kicked off in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa will boost the country's tourism, a government official said on Friday.
TRIPOLI -- The UN-backed Libyan government official said on Friday that Greece's expelling of the Libyan ambassador is "unacceptable."
KIGALI-- About 120 Chinese experts will join a China-supported geological survey and mineral resource assessment project for Rwanda in the next three years and the first batch has started working in the central African country recently.
RABAT -- Morocco and the International Energy Agency (IEA) signed on Friday in Paris an action program for the period 2020-2021, official news agency MAP reported.
LAGOS -- Nigeria's Women Affairs Minister Pauline Tallen on Wednesday called for stricter penalties for sexual offenders with an aim to curb rape and all forms of abuse against women and children.
JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa's Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi said on Tuesday he welcomed the adoption of the Border Management Authority Bill by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP).
HARARE -- The World Food Program (WFP) said Wednesday it plans to double the number of people it will give food aid in Zimbabwe to 4.1 million by January next year.
CAPE TOWN-- South African Airways (SAA) announced on Thursday that its Board of Directors has adopted a resolution to place the company into business rescue at the earliest opportunity.
