HARARE, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has warned that traders who continue to demand payment in US dollars will face prosecution. In June, the country abandoned the use of the US dollar for its official currency the Zimbabwe dollars; reintroducing a local currency that was scrapped…

UN’s Sec-Gen Antonio Guterres ADDIS ABABA, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN’s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has told African leaders that it’s time to remove Sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Addressing the annual African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Guterres said the UN would drum up international…

ALGIERS, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A soldier has been killed in a suicide car bombing that targeted a military barracks in southern Algeria. It was the first such attack in the country for several years. It is not known who was behind the bombing, which happened in the Bordj Baji…

President Paul Biya YAOUNDE, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Legislative and municipal elections in Cameroon on Sunday were marked by low voter turnout – especially in the Central African nation’s two troubled western regions, where anglophone separatist rebels had called for a poll boycott.  There were reports of clashes with the security forces in Muyuka,…

KAMPALA, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ugandan government officials held an “emergency meeting” after locusts were spotted in three areas neighbouring Kenya in the north-east. Ugandan Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda summoned the meeting at 7 pm local time Sunday to activate a plan the government had put in place to fight…

The oil terminal of Marsa al-Hariga, Libya CAIRO, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Libya’s battered economy took center stage at United Nations-backed talks on ending the conflict, as a blockade that slashed the OPEC nation’s vital oil output entered a fourth week.The two-day meeting in Cairo is being closely monitored for…

Rivals Machar (L) and Pres Kiir (R) are supposed to form a unity government by Feb 22 ADDIS ABABA, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Crunch talks to try and end six years of fighting in South Sudan have ended with no deal between the warring parties.President Salva Kiir and his rival…

PORTO-NOVO, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Men armed with rifles and machetes attacked a police station in Benin near the border with troubled Burkina Faso, raising fears that extremist violence could be encroaching even further south, officials said.One policeman was killed and another wounded in the attack in the village of…