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JOHANNESBURG - Credit Suisse has pulled out of South Africa after more than a decade as part of chief executive Tidjane Thiam’s bank-wide revamp, three sources with knowledge…

LUANDA - People involved in an alleged scheme to defraud Angola’s government laid out plans to secure as much as $1.5 billion, the finance ministry said on Monday,…

MUTARE, Zimbabwe - As dark clouds began to build on the horizon, Tarisai Nyakunu Zimunya, a single mother-of-three, looked worried. The fragile structure she calls home would struggle…

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa’s central bank has fined China Construction Bank (CCB) 75 million rand ($6 million) for non-compliance with the country’s financial intelligence act, it said on…

KATSE DAM, Lesotho (Reuters) - Cape Town is running out of water and low dam levels in the emerald-green highlands of Lesotho are raising alarm bells in South…

ONITSHA, Nigeria - More than 43,000 Cameroonians have fled as refugees to Nigeria to escape a crackdown by the government on Anglophone separatists, local aid officials said on…

BANJUL - The president had found a cure for AIDS. That was the news that reached Ousman Sowe, the head of a Gambian AIDS support network, one day…

CAPE TOWN - South Africa may still get most of its energy from coal, but in the country’s sunny Northern Cape province, a different electricity source is taking…

HARARE - Zimbabwe has invited bids for stakes in up to eight loss-making state-owned enterprises, including its national airline and power utility, to help plug a ballooning budget…

CAIRO - Telecom Egypt, Egypt’s largest internet provider, said on Tuesday it expected its internet services to be restored “gradually” after several days of disruptions.