[News24Wire] Barclays Africa [JSE:BGA] reported a 10% increase in profit for 2015 on Tuesday, hours before the UK holding company announces whether it will exit the business.
[Dalsan Radio] Security has been beefed up at major airports across the country following intelligence reports that Al-Shabaab militants are planning to stage attacks.
[Al Jazeera] Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika last month dissolved the Department of Intelligence and Security (DRS), the powerful state security service long seen as the nexus of political power in the country - a move that has raised questions about the extent of power wielded by the country's intelligence apparatus.
[Deutsche Welle] Burundi officials have discovered a mass grave with around 30 corpses in the nation's capital of Bujumbura, the city mayor said. The police suspects regime opponents of politically motivated killing.
[Al Jazeera] Logistical and political obstacles threaten to delay the planned return of opposition fighters to the South Sudanese capital, Juba, on March 1, sources close to the process told Al Jazeera.
[New Zimbabwe] MBADA Diamonds has won a High Court reprieve as it fights the government's decision to seize the controversial Marange diamond industry.
[Deutsche Welle] Several children were ritually murdered and mutilated during the recent election season in Uganda, a Christian charity says. The activists believe that killings were meant to invoke magic bringing "wealth and power."
