ACCRA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Ghana accepted 369.47 million cedis ($84.7 million) worth of bids for a new five-year domestic bond issued on Thursday and the country will pay a fixed yield of 18.75 percent, lead arrangers said.
BANJUL/DAKAR (Reuters) - Hundreds of people gathered along the streets of Gambia's capital Banjul on Thursday to welcome home new President Adama Barrow after authoritarian leader Yahya Jammeh fled into exile under pressure from regional forces.
PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African artist Percy Maimela stumbled upon his talent by chance, when some salt crystals spilled on the floor of the shop where he worked and as he tried to collect them he realised they formed shapes that he now turns into portraits.
ACCRA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Ghana accepted 369.47 million cedis ($84.7 million) worth of bids for a new five-year domestic bond issued on Thursday and the country will pay a fixed yield of 18.75 percent, lead arrangers said.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African farmers have planted almost a third more hectares with maize this season than they did last year following increased rainfall and favourable climate conditions, the government's Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) said on Thursday.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A counter-terrorism unit in the Libyan capital Tripoli said it suspected a car bomb that went off on Saturday near the Italian embassy was planted by backers of a rival force in the divided country's east.
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss police detained former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko near the Swiss capital of Berne on Thursday, newspaper Berner Zeitung said on its website, citing police.
VALLETTA (Reuters) - EU interior ministers will consider plans on Thursday to finance camps in Africa where the U.N. refugee agency and aid groups would process migrants to prevent them trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Millions of children in northeast Nigeria, where Boko Haram is waging an insurgency, have been vaccinated against measles in recent weeks but many others could not be reached due to the threat posed by the Islamist militants, the United Nations said on Thursday.
NAIROBI, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Kenyan and Tanzanian shillings and Ghana's cedi are seen weakening against the dollar in the coming week, while Nigeria's naira will hold steady, traders said. KENYA The Kenyan shilling was seen weakening against the dollar in the coming week due to increased dollar demand from oil importers making end month transactions, traders said, adding they would also seek direction from central bank's rate-setting meeting on Jan. 30. Commercial banks quoted t
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's high court ruled on Thursday that two groups of Nigerian villagers cannot pursue in U.K. courts a case against Royal Dutch Shell over oil spill allegations in Nigeria.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo is to extradite nearly 200 suspected Burundian rebels, raising concerns by rights groups that they could be tortured or killed on their return to Burundi.
DAKAR (Reuters) - Gambia's new president Adama Barrow has asked a West African military operation, which pressured his predecessor to go into exile after he refused to accept his election defeat, to remain in the country for six months, a U.N. official said on Thursday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan court on Thursday ordered doctors to end a strike in the next five days or face jail after a stoppage of more than six weeks that has plunged state hospitals into crisis at the start of an election year.
LIBREVILLE, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Ghana and Senegal were considered the early favourites at the African Nations Cup finals but as the group stage came to its conclusion, Egypt emerged from a slow start to show off their credentials as potential champions.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe authorities offered residential land to government employees in lieu of annual bonuses, unions said on Thursday, rejecting a proposal that suggests the cash squeeze gripping the country is unlikely to ease this year.
BAMAKO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Nearly all of Mali's industrial gold mines produced more than forecast last year, defying expectations of an overall decline, a senior mining official said on Thursday. Mali, Africa's third largest producer after South Africa and Ghana, saw industrial production reach 46.9 tonnes of gold in 2016, up slightly from 46.5 tonnes produced in 2015. "Due to reinforced production infrastructure, nearly all the mining companies surpassed (targets), aside perhaps from th
DOHA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - A new documentary film is offering a rare glimpse into the lives of poor African and Asian migrant workers building facilities for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar - and it does so using soccer itself.
CAIRO (Reuters) - "Wanted" was emblazoned across photographs posted online by Islamic State.
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