ACCRA, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The Bank of Ghana said the yield on its weekly 91-day bill fell to 22.5013 percent at an auction on Friday from 22.5424 percent at the last sale on Oct. 28.
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian judge who tried former president Mohamed Mursi in 2015 survived an assassination attempt on Friday when a parked car exploded as his vehicle drove by, the interior ministry said.
KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's northern Kaduna state is close to agreeing a $625 million deal with an Indian consortium to build a light railway and also plans two new power plants, its governor said.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Islamist rebels have intensified their attacks in Somalia, detonating larger, more sophisticated devices, bringing in more foreign expertise and doubling the death toll from last year, experts said.
DAKAR (Reuters) - In a report last week detailing sub-Saharan Africa's dire economic outlook, the International Monetary Fund singled out Senegal as a rare bright spot. One key reason: it does not produce oil.
ACCRA, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Ghana will issue its first 10-year domestic bond next week in an effort by the debt-burdened commodity exporter to ease interest rates and raise longer term funds to support government capital expenditure, the finance ministry said on Friday.
DAKAR, Nov 4 (Reuters) - In a report last week detailing sub-Saharan Africa's dire economic outlook, the International Monetary Fund singled out Senegal as a rare bright spot. One key reason: it does not produce oil.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Food Programme is very concerned about the threat of famine in South Sudan, where people are fleeing from the conflict and leaving their crops to rot in the field, WFP spokeswoman Bettina Luescher said on Friday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on Friday told state prosecutors and the defence to argue their case over the six-year sentence for murder handed to Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius in open court.
LAGOS (Reuters) - A commander of a Nigerian militant group has attacked the Trans Forcados oil pipeline in the Niger Delta without authorisation, a local newspaper said on Friday, quoting a statement from the group.
BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Two parties in Congo Republic's ruling coalition petitioned the government late on Thursday to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), a move that threatens to deal a fresh blow to the tribunal in The Hague.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's main prosecutor said on Friday investigations into Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's role in a surveillance unit at the tax department that allegedly spied on politicians were at an advanced stage.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal started hearing arguments in a case on assisted suicide on Friday after the government appealed against a ruling by a lower court granting a terminally ill patient the right to die, a court official said.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday criticized U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon's decision to fire a Kenyan peacekeeping commander in South Sudan as premature, saying the mission there was now "in ruins" after Kenya vowed to withdraw all its troops in response to the move.
KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Blackened walls and piles of rubble are all that is left of the house of a leader of Nigeria's Shi'ite minority after it was burned down by machete-wielding youths in the tense northern city of Kaduna.
DAKAR (Reuters) - A young woman soccer star who had played goalkeeper for Gambia was drowned last month while trying to cross from Libya to Europe, her brother said on Thursday.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has partially lifted fuel and electricity subsidies as part of an economic reform package aimed at cutting government spending that also included import restrictions, the finance minister said late on Thursday.
NAIROBI, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Friday. - - - - - EVENTS: * MALAWI - releases new interest rates this week. GLOBAL MARKETS Asian shares slipped on Friday and the dollar nursed losses in a week marked by growing uncertainty about the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. Investors have been unnerved in recent days by signs that the p
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