ACCRA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Ghana plans to issue 17.4 billion cedis' ($4.1 billion) worth of domestic instruments for government finances and debt restructuring in the first three months of this year, the central bank said on Monday.
LIBREVILLE, Jan 16 (Reuters) - A wait of almost 40 years will come to an end for Uganda on Tuesday when they make their return to the African Nations Cup finals, determined to prove they are a worthy competitors.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - At least two dozen people, most of them women, have been killed over the past week in ethnic violence between Bantus and Pygmies in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a U.N. human rights official said on Monday.
ABIDJAN, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast exported 144,141 tonnes of raw cocoa beans in the first two months of the 2016/17 season, down almost 13 percent from the same period in the previous year, provisional port data showed on Monday.
ABIDJAN, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast exported 61,741 tonnes of semi-finished cocoa products in the first two months of the 2016/17 season, down more than 19 percent from the same period in the previous year, provisional port data showed on Monday. The cocoa season in the world's top producer runs from October to September. Following are official figures for cocoa product exports in tonnes, including a breakdown of cocoa powder, butter and chocolate. There was no breakdown for other co
LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Britain's credit export agency, UK Export Finance (UKEF), signed its first direct loan deal in Africa on Monday, providing $310 million to GE Oil & Gas to supply equipment for an oil and gas project in Ghana.
ABIDJAN, Jan 16 (Reuters) - A lack of rainfall across most of Ivory Coast's main cocoa regions combined with Harmattan winds have raised concerns about the quality of new crops, farmers said on Monday.
* Will provide $400 million in support for a ge oil & gas contract with Ghana's offshore cape three points project
TAPACHULA, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Using a stone, Ahmed Ali Hassan scraped away at the side of the container truck until he made a small hole, and putting his parched mouth to it, gasped for air.
LIBREVILLE, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Two days after his 44th birthday, Egypt goalkeeper Essam El Hadary is set to become the oldest player to compete at the African Nations Cup finals and among the oldest internationals in soccer history.
CAIRO (Reuters) - A top Egyptian court issued a final ruling on Monday rejecting a government plan to transfer two uninhabited Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia in a deal that had provoked outrage among Egyptians and prompted rare protests.
TAPACHULA, Mexico, Jan 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - U sing a stone, Ahmed Ali Hassan scraped away at the side of the container truck until he made a small hole, and putting his parched mouth to it, gasped for air.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A professor at the University of Maiduguri and a child were killed and 17 people wounded on Monday in a twin suicide bombing in the city in Nigeria's northeast, officials said.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - A South African tour guide working at a crocodile farm in the Western Cape province near Cape Town has been mauled to death by the beasts, police said on Monday.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Armed fighters led by the military commander of former Congolese rebel group M23 have crossed the border into the Democratic Republic of Congo from Uganda, Congolese officials said on Sunday.
NAIROBI, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Monday. - - - - - EVENTS: *ZIMBABWE - Statistics office to release the country's December inflation data. *MALAWI - Authorities also due to release consumer price index data for December. *ANGOLA - Monetary authorities are expected to release the country's foreign exchange reserves as of December. GLOBAL M
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