Africa News Headlines
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Victoria Falls shrink to a trickle, feeding climate change fears
(This Dec. 6 story has been corrected to make clear Kariba dam is downstream, not upstream of the falls, paragraph 7)
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UPDATE 1-Cricket-England's Archer, Stokes among players rested for S. Africa ODIs
Dec 13 (Reuters) - England will rest Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes and Mark Wood for the three-match one-day international series against South Africa starting in Cape Town on Feb. 4, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Friday.
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Markets primed for early 2020 'melt-up': BofA
LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of America analysts on Friday predicted bullish investors would continue to drive equity markets higher early next year.
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Pirates release three oil tanker crew kidnapped off Togo
ATHENS (Reuters) - Pirates have released three crew taken hostage from a Greek oil tanker off the coast of the West African country of Togo in November, the vessel's manager said on Friday.
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Pirates release three oil tanker crew kidnapped off Togo
ATHENS, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Pirates have released three crew taken hostage from a Greek oil tanker off the coast of the West African country of Togo in November, the vessel's manager said on Friday.
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Russia urges talks in Libya after commander Haftar calls on forces to advance: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry on Friday called for dialogue between hostile groups to resolve the crisis in Libya, the RIA news agency reported, a day after eastern forces' commander Khalifa Haftar urged an advance towards Tripoli.
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Russia urges talks in Libya after commander Haftar calls on forces to advance - RIA
MOSCOW, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry on Friday called for dialog between hostile groups to resolve the crisis in Libya, the RIA news agency reported, a day after eastern forces' commander Khalifa Haftar urged an advance towards Tripoli.
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Ebola spreads in Congo after militants attack treatment camp: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - Cases of the deadly Ebola virus have risen in the Democratic Republic of Congo where health care workers remain largely cut off from the disease's hotspots since militants attacked their camp, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Ebola spreads in Congo after militants attack treatment camp -WHO
GENEVA, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Cases of the deadly Ebola virus have risen in the Democratic Republic of Congo where health care workers remain largely cut off from the disease's hotspots since militants attacked their camp, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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REFILE-FACTBOX-Four ways South Africa can get more power generation capacity
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Plagued by power cuts and with its infrastructure in desperate need of revamping, South Africa's struggling state power utility Eskom says the country desperately needs an additional 5,000 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity.
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