* Indian demand slack * Qua Iboe offered at $2 premium to dated Brent LONDON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Differentials for West African crude weakened slightly on Tuesday, with slow demand from India leading to relatively sluggish sales of December Angolan cargoes. "India seems to be taking less this month than last which saw good demand," one trader said. The lacklustre demand meant a cut in production in Nigeria of Bonny Light and Forcados due to flooding which led Shell to declare
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian school teacher received a six-month suspended jail sentence on Tuesday for cutting the hair of two 12-year-old girl pupils who were not wearing Islamic headscarves, a judicial source said.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - As darkness falls over Ivory Coast's lagoon-side commercial capital a steady thumping cuts through the tropical night.
ACCRA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Teenager Joseph Alfred Duncan, who has played four minutes of senior football, has received a call-up from Ghana for an African Nations Cup warm-up friendly against the Cape Verde Islands next week.
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Military experts from Africa, the United Nations and Europe have drawn up preliminary plans to recapture northern Mali from al Qaeda-linked rebels, African officials said on Tuesday.
PARIS (Reuters) - The world's 16 largest power grids need to invest $700 billion over the next 10 years to cope with a rising share of renewable energy in mature economies and with soaring demand in emerging nations, French power grid RTE said.
PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa immortalised former president Nelson Mandela on Tuesday in a set of new banknotes bearing the image of the anti-apartheid leader, who remains a rare unifying force in a country still scarred by its racially divided past.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An argument over a parking space between parents at a Johannesburg primary school prize-giving ended in a shooting that left three people injured and one man facing attempted murder charges, police said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Three men were injured on Monday when a whale leaped out of the water and landed on their inflatable boat off South Africa's south coast near the harbour city of Port Elizabeth, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said on Tuesday.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese rebels said they had shelled the military's headquarters in the main city of the oil-producing South Kordofan state near the border with South Sudan after coming under air and ground attack.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Investors have approved Ivory Coast's plan to make missed coupon payments on its defaulted $2.3 billion bond over the next two years, and issue additional bonds in the series in exchange for some existing bonds, the government said on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - From a suspected Israeli airstrike in Sudan to cyber warfare in the Gulf and a drone shot down over Israel, the largely hidden war between Iran and its foes seems heating up and spreading.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese security forces confiscated the edition of one of the country's oldest daily newspapers on Monday without giving a reason, its editor said, as authorities extended a crackdown on the media.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A Thai man pleaded guilty on Monday to smuggling rhino horn from South Africa, in a case in which prostitutes posing as big game hunters were used to conceal an international trafficking ring.
NAIROBI, Nov 6 - - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Tuesday. - - - - - EVENTS * Mauritius - October inflation data due to be released. GLOBAL MARKETS Asian shares and the dollar steadied on Tuesday with investors' risk appetite curbed by uncertainty over the outcome of the tight U.S. presidential election and renewed doubts over Greece's political ability to push thro
ENUGU, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian police arrested 100 people on Monday for marching in support of independence for the Biafran rebellion, which tipped the country into a 1967-1970 civil war that killed an estimated 1 million people.
WADI EL-NATRUN, Egypt (Reuters) - The new Coptic Orthodox pope said on Monday that a constitution being drafted by Egypt's politicians must be inclusive and the church would oppose any text that only addressed one part of the Muslim-majority nation.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United States expects Uganda to keep its peacekeeping forces in Somalia, despite a threat to withdraw in protest at a U.N. report accusing Kampala of aiding rebels in eastern Congo, a senior State Department official said on Monday.
KABUANGA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo sought on Monday to prevent the killing of a Congolese soldier in a border clash from causing an escalation of already tense relations, officials said.
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