LIBREVILLE, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Holders Ivory Coast will have to win their last group game at the African Nations Cup if they are to continue their title defence after being held again on Friday.
ACCRA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The Bank of Ghana said the yield on its weekly 91-day bill dropped to 15.7952 percent at an auction on Friday from 16.0560 percent at the last sale, on Jan. 13.
LIBREVILLE, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Ghana will have to show an improvement for their second match at the African Nations Cup finals against Mali on Saturday but victory in the opening game has given them breathing space, coach Avram Grant said.
LAGOS (Reuters) - Sony Music Entertainment sees big growth prospects for music streaming in Nigeria, thanks to falling internet data costs and a large, growing population, a senior executive told Reuters.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's acting police commissioner on Friday denied allegations that he took bribes to fund an 8 million rand ($600,000) mansion in an upmarket suburb of the capital Pretoria.
ACCRA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Ghana's new government plans to review its $918 million programme with the International Monetary Fund because it may need more money for its spending plans, a minister-designate said on Friday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya has started a digital skills training programme to enable 1 million young people to secure freelance online work in the next year, in a bid to tackle the country's acute youth unemployment problem.
ABUJA (Reuters) - A group of Nigerian writers, intellectuals and media figures called on President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday to stop the persecution of journalists, after an online publication's news staff was briefly detained.
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 20 (Reuters)- When it comes to fighting malaria, Bill Gates and Ray Chambers are both inspired and concerned: With victory in sight, will the world's new leaders commit to finally beating this persistent parasite?
ACCRA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Ghana's new government plans to review its three-year $918 million programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that is intended to stabilise the economy, a minister-designate said on Friday.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The death toll from an accidental Nigerian air strike on a refugee camp in the town of Rann has risen to around 90 people, and could be as high as 170, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said in a statement on Friday.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Political turmoil in Gambia has driven about 45,000 people, mainly children, to flee into Senegal since Jan. 1, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday, citing figures from the Senegalese government.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said on Thursday he expected parliament to approve nominations for ministers in a cabinet reshuffle by the end of the month, state news agency MENA reported.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 80 Islamic State militants, some of whom were believed to be plotting attacks in Europe, died in U.S. air strikes on camps outside the group's former North African stronghold of Sirte in Libya, the United States said on Thursday.
BANJUL (Reuters) - West African leaders were due in Banjul on Friday morning to offer Gambia's veteran leader Yahya Jammeh a last chance to step down peacefully before regional forces, which have already entered the country, oust him.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Lecturers at Kenya's public universities started an indefinite strike on Thursday over poor pay, joining doctors who have been striking for more than five weeks and deepening a crisis in public services as the country heads towards elections.
BANJUL/DAKAR (Reuters) - West African nations launched a military operation in Gambia on Thursday, Senegal's army said, aiming to install its new President Adama Barrow and remove longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh, who refuses to step down despite an election loss.
NAIROBI, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Friday. - - - - - EVENTS: *SOUTH AFRICA - Treasury to auction three-month, six-month, nine-month and one-year debt notes. GLOBAL MARKETS Caution prevailed in financial markets on Friday ahead of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, even as China's fourth-quarter economic growth beat expectations
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