CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African president Jacob Zuma hit out at an anti-corruption watchdog investigation implicating him, telling parliament on Wednesday that the process had been "unfair" to him and that the probe was carried out "in a funny way".
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday the action by nation's four biggest lenders to stop doing business with the wealthy Gupta was "suspicious" and required to be probed.
DAKAR, Nov 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At the top of a hill in the heart of Senegal's largest rubbish dump, 47-year-old Didou Farai watched as hundreds of workers armed with metal rods picked through piles of waste in search of recyclable materials to sell.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - West Africa-focused oil and gas company African Petroleum is pulling out of its two Liberian offshore prospecting licences after it failed to attract new partners, it said in a statement on Wednesday.
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian lawyers went on their second strike in a month on Wednesday to protest against new taxes and tighter fiscal controls in the government's proposed budget for next year.
ABIDJAN, Nov 23 (Reuters) - West Africa-focused oil and gas company African Petroleum is pulling out of its two Liberian offshore prospecting licences after it failed to attract new partners, it said in a statement on Wednesday.
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has said U.S. surveillance drones are flying over the Tunisian-Libyan border to ward of attacks by Islamic State, after lawmakers called on his government to clarify U.S. reports on such a mission.
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court's prosecutor said her investigations into alleged war crimes would not be impacted by the plans of three African countries to withdraw from the court and she would keep going after the perpetrators of atrocities.
ACCRA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Ghana's producer price inflation rose to 9.8 percent year-on-year in October from 9.7 percent the month before, mainly because of rising petroleum price, the statistics office said on Wednesday.
ACCRA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Ghana's producer price inflation (PPI) rose to 9.8 percent year-on-year in October, from 9.7 percent the month before, the statistics office said on Wednesday.
COTONOU (Reuters) - Benin security forces seized 54 kilogrammes of cocaine from a container that had arrived at its main port of Cotonou from Brazil, the public prosecutor said on Tuesday.
The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Wednesday. - - - - - EVENTS: GHANA - Expecting the latest producer price inflation data. GLOBAL MARKETS Asian stocks bounced to one-week highs on Wednesday as investors tried to share in the exuberance of Wall Street's record run, while high U.S. bond yields kept the dollar well underpinned. WORLD OIL PRICES Oil prices
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