* Tendered bids ranged from 24.24 pct to 31.0 pct (Adds details)
ACCRA, May 29 (Reuters) - Ghana accepted 372.55 million cedis ($124.6 million) worth of bids for a three-year bond and paid a slightly lower yield of 24.44 percent in an oversubscribed bond sale on Thursday, the central bank said.
MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) - - Gunmen mounted on motorbikes killed at least 32 people in the northeastern Nigerian village of Gurmushi, a police source said on Thursday.
DJIBOUTI (Reuters) - A man and woman who blew themselves up in a restaurant in Djibouti on Saturday - in the first attack of its kind in the East African state - were probably Somalis, the interior minister said.
DOHA (Reuters) - The influential Qatar-based Muslim cleric Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi on Sunday called on Egyptians to boycott presidential elections and shun front-runner Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, saying the former army chief had "disobeyed God".
NYANDENI South Africa (Reuters) - Mining accounts for a fraction of South Africa's gross domestic product but still hits well above its weight and is pushing the continent's most advanced economy towards recession.
MAPUTO (Reuters) - The South African government is taking the initiative to end a crippling platinum sector strike now in its eighteenth week, new Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene said on Thursday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won a landslide victory in a presidential election on Thursday but a low turnout may have deprived him of the strong mandate he needs to fix the economy and face down an Islamist insurgency.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Sudan turned down an Iranian offer to set up air defences on its Red Sea coast after a 2012 air strike Khartoum blamed on Israel, fearing they would upset Iran's regional rival Saudi Arabia, Sudan's foreign minister was quoted as saying on Thursday.
MAPUTO, May 29 (Reuters) - Ghana will announce advisers on Friday for a Eurobond issue of up to $1.5 billion, Finance Minister Seth Terkper told Reuters on Thursday, suggesting the issue of the country's third Eurobond could be imminent.
MAPUTO, May 29 (Reuters) - Ghana will announce advisers on Friday for a Eurobond issue of up to $1.5 billion, Finance Minister Seth Terkper told Reuters on Thursday, suggesting the issue of the country's third Eurobond could be imminent.
MAPUTO (Reuters) - South Africa's government is taking the initiative to end a crippling platinum sector strike now in its eighteenth week, new Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene said on Thursday.
* Lagarde advises: "build infrastructure, institutions, people" (Adds quotes, details, background)
May 29 (Reuters) - Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has praised the unity and discipline in his squad which completed a second week of training for the World Cup and is set to be pruned for the trip to Brazil.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - In his spare time, South Africa's tough new mines minister, Ngoako Ramatlhodi, enjoys stalking game with a rifle in the wild bush of his native Limpopo province.
ACCRA (Reuters) - Youths in the Central African Republic set up barricades on roads in the capital on Thursday and lit fires in protest at an attack by Muslim gunmen on a church that left at least 11 people dead, witnesses said.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan said on Thursday he had ordered "a full-scale operation to put an end to the impunity of terrorists on our soil," as he reassured parents of 219 schoolgirls being held by Boko Haram that his forces would free them.
MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) - Four more girls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants last month have escaped their captors, the education commissioner for Nigeria's Borno state said on Wednesday, leaving 219 still missing.
BANGUI (Reuters) - At least 11 people were killed when Muslim gunmen sprayed bullets and hurled grenades at people sheltering in a church in the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, witnesses said.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who toppled Egypt's first freely elected leader, swept to victory in a presidential election, provisional results showed on Thursday, joining a long line of leaders drawn from the military.
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