Ghana Set To Sign Deepwater Drilling Contract With Exxon Mobile

Ghana has opened talks with Exxon Mobil Corp to allow the U.S. oil firm to undertake deepwater exploration off its coast, a deputy energy minister said on Monday.

Ethiopian Airlines Signs $1.3 billion With Boeing

Boeing Co. has inked a deal to sell four 777 freighters to Ethiopian Airlines, a purchase valued at $1.3 billion.

A train crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 33 people, UN radio station Okapi reports.

It happened in Buyofwe in the province Lualaba, in the south of the country.

Military Threatens To Take Over Power In Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s top military general on Monday called for an immediate end to purges against former liberation war fighters in President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party after Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa was removed from office.

President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan arrived for a three-day visit in Uganda on Monday, defying an international Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against him. The ICC issued arrest warrants for al-Bashir in 2009 and 2010 on charges of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity in the Sudanese region of Darfur.

Somaliland's electoral commission has asked the government to block social media platforms from Monday next week to prevent the spread of "fake news and misinformation" during the election period.

The officials want Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp to be blocked.