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HARARE - Zimbabwe’s High Court on Thursday denied bail to a journalist who was arrested last month for supporting anti-government protests, in a case that has sparked an…

South Africa will allow struggling sit-down restaurants to serve customers dinner for an extra hour until 10 p.m, Minister of Tourism Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane announced on Thursday.

ABUJA - Nigeria has no plans to tap the international debt market this year due to the time constraints before the end of its budget cycle, the head…

HARARE - Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday described Western sanctions as a “cancer” sapping the economy, and his supporters denounced the measures during marches held around the…

RIYADH/WASHINGTON - Egypt has pulled out of the U.S. effort to forge an “Arab NATO” with key Arab allies, according to four sources familiar with the decision, in…

MANCHESTER, England - Barcelona overcame a punchless Manchester United to take the upper hand in their Champions League quarter-final after Luke Shaw’s own goal gave them a 1-0…

JOHANNESBURG - South African state arms company Denel is in talks with Airbus about winding down production of parts for the European planemaker’s A400M military aircraft, Denel said…

YOLA, Nigeria/ABUJA - Nigerian teacher Benjamin Shagu flew 500 km (310 miles) from the east of the country to the capital, Abuja, to vote in the presidential election…

WASHINGTON - Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s chief financial officer was arrested as part of a U.S. investigation of an alleged scheme to use the global…

CAPE TOWN - South Africa’s main opposition party said on Tuesday it could go to court to stop proposed land reforms after parliament approved a report endorsing a…