ACCRA, March 3 (Reuters) - The Bank of Ghana said the yield on its weekly 91-day bill rose to 16.3827 percent at an auction on Friday from 15.9438 percent at the last sale, on Feb. 24. The bank said it had accepted 1.03 billion cedis ($220.7 million) worth of bids out of 1.04 billion cedis tendered for the 91-day paper, which will be issued on March 7. For full details, click here: https://www.bog.gov.gh/privatecontent/Treasury/Auctresults 1527.pdf
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzanian President John Magufuli ordered the confiscation on Friday of passports belonging to foreign employees of an Indian infrastructure company managing a water project that is running late.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma will not suspend the head of the prosecution service for laying and then withdrawing corruption charges against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, the presidency said on Friday.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union states are expected to decide on Monday to create a joint command centre for the bloc's foreign training missions in Mali, Somalia and Central African Republic, a senior EU official in Brussels said.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - East Libyan forces carried out air strikes and clashed with rival factions on Friday close to major oil terminals, eastern military officials said.
TUNIS (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday her government would provide Tunisia with 250 million euros in development aid.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Mitsubishi South Africa has issued a preventative recall of 7,449 Pajero cars due to safety concerns over Takata airbags, the company said in a statement on Friday.
* Says Millicom and Airtel sign agreement to combine operations in Ghana
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MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique's Renamo opposition party will extend a ceasefire by a further two months, its leader Afonso Dhlakama said on Friday, the third such extension since a truce aimed at aiding peace talks began on Dec. 27.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Germany has offered Egypt $500 million to support its economic programme and medium-sized and small businesses, the Egyptian ministry of investment and international cooperation said on Friday.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Tens of millions of dollars in royalties and signing bonuses that Glencore told an independent transparency board it had paid to Congo's state mining company actually went to a business controlled by Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler, advocacy group Global Witness said in a report on Friday. Glencore-controlled Kamoto Copper Co (KCC) told the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in 2013 and 2014, in publicly-available disclosures, the payments were made to
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has appealed for international help for victims of floods that have left 246 people dead and displaced hundreds since December when torrential rains started pounding a country emerging from severe drought.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Some 1.5 million refugees have fled fighting and famine in South Sudan to neighbouring countries, half of them to Uganda, and thousands more are leaving daily, the U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's largest opposition party said it had named the son of its late leader Etienne Tshisekedi to succeed him on Thursday, but some within the opposition rejected the choice.
NAIROBI, March 3 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Friday. - - - - - GLOBAL MARKETS The dollar held broad gains on Friday as the risk of an imminent U.S. interest rate hike slugged sovereign bonds and commodities, even managing to sour Wall Street's party as the reality of rising borrowing costs began to sink in. WORLD OIL PRI
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