ACCRA, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The World Bank Group said on Thursday it two of its units would provide another $517 million to Ghana in debt and guarantees to support the $7.7 billion Sankofa oil and gas project developed by Italy's ENI SpA and upstream trader Vitol Ghana.
ACCRA, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The World Bank Group said on Thursday it would provide $517 million to Ghana in debt and guarantees to support the $7.7 billion Sankofa oil and gas project being developed by Italy's ENI and upstream trader Vitol Ghana.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Standard Bank has asked a court to block the South African government from intervening in its decision to cut ties with the Gupta family which is at the centre of allegations of influence-peddling with the government.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union offered 610 million euros ($635 million) to Niger on Thursday for keeping a lid on migration from Africa through the Mediterranean to Europe.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has received the final report submitted by a watchdog investigating allegations of misconduct of the suspended national police commissioner, his office said on Thursday.
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia is set to tackle its housing shortage with the start of a project early next year to build 15,000 houses at an estimated cost of 1 billion euros ($1.04 billion), Housing and Infrastructure Development Minister Ronald Chitotela said on Thursday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian Aviation Investigation Committee found traces of explosives on remains of victims from crashed Egyptair flight MS804, it said on Thursday.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria will clear unpaid bills for production joint-ventures piled up over many years under a deal signed on Thursday with Shell, Chevron, Total, Eni and Exxon Mobil. The deal would unlock fresh investment in the OPEC member country, Oil Minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu said in a speech at the signing ceremony, without giving details.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Al Shabaab militants cut off the right hands of two alleged thieves in a region of Somalia controlled by the al Qaeda- affiliated group, a senior al Shabaab official said on Thursday.
MAPUTO (Reuters) - Valentina Guebuza, the influential businesswoman daughter of former Mozambican President Armando Guebuza, was shot dead by her husband in their apartment in a wealthy neighbourhood of the capital, Mozambican police said on Thursday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan court on Wednesday ordered two Iranian nationals facing charges of filming Israel's embassy in Nairobi for the purpose of terrorism to be deported back to Iran, a public prosecutor said.
BAMA, Nigeria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the northern Nigerian town of Bama the streets are eerily quiet. Houses lie empty, riddled with bullet holes, and symbols of the jihadist group Boko Haram are painted on the walls.
CAIRO (Reuters) - The chairman of two independent Egyptian newspapers, including one of the country's only English-language papers, said on Wednesday that the company's assets were frozen for alleged ties to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, a charge he denied.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African Communications Minister Faith Muthambi denied on Wednesday that she had tried to get the SABC to suppress news of protests and discontent, when she testified to a parliamentary inquiry into a string of scandals at the public broadcaster.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt executed prominent Islamist fighter Adel Habara on Thursday, state media said, days after a top court rejected his final appeal and in defiance of militant threats to ignite "a volcano of jihad" across the country.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Protesters blockading pipelines to Libya's Sharara and El Feel oil fields have promised to reopen them and production could restart in the coming days, security officials and an oil industry source said on Wednesday.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A loud blast was heard in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, a Reuters witness said. The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear.
The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Thursday. - - - - - EVENTS: NIGERIA - Inflation data for November to be released. The rate rose to 18.3 percent in October. GLOBAL MARKETS Asian shares and currencies struggled on Thursday after the Federal Reserve raised rates for the first time in a year and hinted at the risk of a faster pace of tightening than investors were posit
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