President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Central Bank of Nigeria to block food importers' requests for foreign currency in a bid to boost local agriculture.
A top US immigration official has revised a quote inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in defence of a new policy that denies food aid to legal migrants.
Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola’s former president, plans to knock down her £13m ($15.6m) mansion in London to rebuild it, investigators Finance Uncovered revealed in an article the UK Times paper.
Two people cured of Ebola using two experimental drugs have been released from a treatment centre in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and reunited with their families.
The Tanzanian government is set to receive a proposal that will see names of married men published in an effort to help curb cheating among couples and save young women from heartbreaks.Â
Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz and two associates are to stand trial for allegedly bribing Guinean officials to win mining licences, Swiss prosecutors say.
Zimbabwe has secured two loans of more than $42.5m (£35.3m) from India to boost the generation of electricity in the country, the state-run Herald newspaper reports.
