LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Struggling champions Leicester City have signed Mali centre back Molla Wague on loan from Udinese until the end of the Premier League season.
LIBREVILLE, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Egypt made a slow start on their return to the African Nations Cup after a seven-year absence, but have reached the semi-finals without conceding and are getting stronger as the tournament progresses.
LONDON (Reuters) - Former Nigerian oil state governor James Ibori, who was recently released from a British prison after serving a sentence for corruption, has signalled a possible political comeback in Africa's most populous country.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - The Congolese army on Tuesday said armed fighters belonging to the former M23 rebel group had captured four crew members of a military helicopter which crashed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week, and that three died after being tortured.
LIBREVILLE, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Cameroon's hopes of reaching the African Nations Cup final for the first time in five tournaments are likely to depend heavily on a 21-year-old goalkeeper who has yet to play a top flight match at club level.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Morocco rejoined the club of African states on Tuesday, 33 years after quitting over recognition of Western Sahara, bringing one of Africa's largest economies into the fold and raising hopes of a softening of one of its thorniest territorial disputes.
JUBA (Reuters) - Fresh clashes broke out around South Sudan's second-largest city of Malakal on Tuesday, a rebel spokesman and a government official said, the latest turn in the struggle for the capital of the oil-producing Upper Nile region.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The African Union formally admitted Morocco as a member on Tuesday, more than three decades after Rabat withdrew from the predecessor organisation.
AGADEZ, Niger (Reuters) - In a dirt-floored room in the town of Agadez in Niger, a pair of flip-flops and a cold pile of ashes are all that remain of what was once a teeming stopover for migrants preparing the fraught journey across the Saharan Desert and onwards to Europe.
HARARE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After years of bad maize harvests as a result of worsening drought, farmer Dorothy Chihota switched a few seasons back to growing sorghum, millet, cowpeas and groundnuts on her 50-acre farm in Uzumba Maramba Pfungwe district.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African prosecutor Gerrie Nel, who oversaw the conviction of Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, has resigned from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), its spokesman said on Tuesday.
QUEBEC CITY/TORONTO (Reuters) - A French-Canadian university student was the sole suspect in a shooting at a Quebec City mosque and was charged with the premeditated murder of six people, Canadian authorities said on Monday, in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called "a terrorist attack."
ATHENS (Reuters) - The third migrant to perish in a week was found dead in his tent on Monday on Greece's Lesbos island, raising alarm about the grim winter conditions in overcrowded camps that critics have denounced as deplorable.
The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Tuesday. - - - - - EVENTS: KENYA - Patrick Njoroge, the central bank's governor, holds a news conference after the bank's rate-setting meeting on Monday. To kick off at about 0730 GMT. KENYA - The statistics office releases January inflation data. The rate edged down to 6.4 pct in December. UGANDA - Expecting January inflation data at ab
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