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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told the US he considered murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi to be a dangerous Islamist, media reports say.

South Africa's state-owned airline should be shut down, the country's new finance minister has said.

Human rights lawyer Meaza Ashenafi was sworn in Thursday as the head of Ethiopia's Supreme Court by the country's parliament in a wave of appointments for women in top government positions.

Zimbabwe has discovered oil and gas deposits in the northern town of Muzarabani, President Emmerson Mnangagwa disclosed at a press conference on Thursday.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has assured Nigerians that its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has worked out a pricing template that would immediately crash the pump price of petrol in the country. 

President-elect of Cameroon, Paul Biya, is set to be sworn in on Friday, November 2, state-run CRTV reported earlier this week.

Staff at Google offices around the world are staging an unprecedented series of walkouts in protest at the company's treatment of women.

The regional governor of Tanzania's largest city, Dar es Salaam, has vowed to arrest people suspected of being gay by next week in an escalating crackdown on LGBT communities in the East African nation. 

Authorities in Tunisia have named the attacker behind Monday’s suicide bombing in the capital, Tunis, which injured nine people.

 

American rapper, Kanye West says he's "distancing" himself from politics claiming he was used to spreading messages he didn't believe in. 

President Muhammadu Buhari has reassured Nigerians on the forthcoming elections, saying ‘the era of awarding votes is well and truly behind us’.

A former nurse in Germany, Niels Högel has admitted murdering 100 patients during the first day of his trial in the northern town of Oldenburg.  

Zimbabwe will continue to operate a multi currency system despite the current economic crisis, president Emmerson Mnangagwa has reiterated.