AFRICA• The IMF suspends loans to Mozambique after the government hid US$1bn of debt.• Sudan asks Egypt to discuss two disputed border territories days after Cairo transferred two islands to Saudi Arabia.• A coalition of opposition parties in Niger choose to end a boycott of parliament and the national electoral commission.• Thirteen political parties in Zambia form an alliance with the ruling Patriotic Front, to campaign for Edgar Lungu’s re-election.• A Kenyan hospital offers to pay for radiotherapy treatment of 400 Ugandan cancer patients after that country’s main radiotherapy machine broke down.ABROAD• Oil prices fall after a meeting of oil producers fails to agree to an output freeze, following Iran’s unwillingness.• The US will send Apache helicopters and more troops to Iraq in an attempt to retake Mosul from the Islamic State.• An attack in the Afghan capital Kabul claims nearly 30 lives and injures 300.• After years of financial isolation, Argentina’s sale of $15bn of govern...
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