KAMPALA, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Goalkeeper Denis Onyango, voted the best African-based player of 2016, will spearhead Uganda's assault on the African Nations Cup title following the announcement of their squad for the finals on Thursday.
ABUJA, Jan 5 (Reuters) - List of African Footballer of the Year award winners: 1970: Salif Keita (St Etienne, France and Mali) 1971: Ibrahim Sunday (Asante Kotoko and Ghana) 1972: Cherif Souleymane (Hafia and Guinea) 1973: Tshimen Bwanga (TP Mazembe Englebert and Zaire) 1974: Paul Moukila (CARA Brazzaville and Congo) 1975: Ahmed Faras (Mohammedia and Morocco) 1976: Roger Milla (Canon Yaounde and Cameroon) 1977: Tarak Dhiab (Esperance and Tunisia) 1978: Karim A
KAMPALA, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Goalkeeper Denis Onyango, one of the candidates for best African-based player of 2016, will spearhead Uganda's assault on the African Nations Cup title following the announcement of their squad for the finals on Thursday.
BAMAKO, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Bakary Sako was included in Mali's 23-man squad for the African Nations Cup finals on Thursday after appearing in his first club match for a month when he came on as a substitute for Crystal Palace this week.
NAIROBI, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Kenya's shilling is expected to weaken further next week on dollar demand from oil importers, while the Nigerian naira is likely to gain on increased forex supply.
YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria has resumed payments of cash stipends to former militants agreed under a 2009 amnesty in the country's Niger Delta oil hub, an official said on Thursday.
DJIBOUTI (Reuters) - Djibouti police found 500 kg of cocaine disguised as flour in a shipment from Brazil - in what authorities said on Thursday was their biggest seizure of the drug.
BANGUI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Blindfolds secured tightly, more than a dozen men and women are led by their partners around leafy plants and trees in the compound of an international charity in the Central African Republic's capital, Bangui.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - A group of Ugandan lawmakers have sent a petition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to ask for an investigation into possible atrocities by security forces when they clashed with a tribal militia late last year.
RABAT (Reuters) - Two Moroccan U.N. peacekeepers in Central African Republic (MINUSCA) were killed and another wounded by unknown attackers, Moroccan state news agency MAP said on Wednesday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police have arrested four people in connection with the bombing that killed dozens of Christians at Cairo's Coptic Christian cathedral last month, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
NAIROBI, Jan 5 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Thursday. - - - - - GLOBAL MARKETS Asian stocks rose for an eighth consecutive day on Thursday, buoyed by further gains on Wall Street and an overnight bounce in oil prices that bolstered energy shares. WORLD OIL PRICES Oil prices dipped on Thursday on doubts producers would fully deli
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