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MAPUTO (Reuters) -At least six people were beheaded and an Italian nun killed on Tuesday by Islamic State-linked insurgents in Mozambique’s Nampula province, authorities said on Wednesday. Speaking in the resort town of Xai Xai north of the capital Maputo, President Filipe Nyusi said the insurgents unleashed a killing spree as they fled from soldiers …

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Johannesburg (Reuters) – South Africa’s biggest food producer Tiger Brands Ltd is recalling its Purity Essentials baby powder products as a precautionary measure after traces of asbestos were detected in test samples, it said on Wednesday. By 0932 GMT, shares in Tiger Brands were down 5.4% to 157.80 rand. Tiger Brands said the test samples …

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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Sharply-suited dignitaries gathered to inaugurate a footbridge in the Congolese capital on Monday only for the structure to collapse beneath their feet to the barely concealed delight of onlookers, video verified by Reuters showed. Just as an organiser cut the ribbon at the ceremony in Kinshasa’s Mont-Ngafula district, …

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KAMPALA (Reuters) – At least 15 people died in western Uganda after their homes were buried in a landslide triggered by torrential rains, the Red Cross said on Wednesday, as emergency workers shovelled through mud in search of survivors. Most of those killed were women and children, Uganda Red Cross spokeswoman Irene Nakasita said in …

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YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Police in Nigeria’s Rivers state rescued 15 children who were abducted in order to be trafficked, police said in a statement on Tuesday. The children, ranging from 4 years to 15 years old, were found with a 44-year-old woman claiming to be a nun in the southern state in Nigeria’s Delta …

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By Amindeh Blaise Atabong YAOUNDE (Reuters) – At least six civilians were killed and eight injured when separatists in southwest Cameroon opened fire on a public bus on Tuesday, officials and the head of a regional hospital said. Anglophone insurgents fighting to carve out an independent state out of Cameroon’s English-speaking North West and South …

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