JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African anti-apartheid veteran Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former wife of the late Nelson Mandela, has been admitted to hospital for observation, a statement from her family said on Thursday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany have found a massive eight-metre statue submerged in ground water in a Cairo slum that they say probably depicts revered Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Madagascar has started evacuating thousands of people from flooded areas after storm waters broke dykes as the country reeled from the impact of Cyclone Enawo.
ACCRA, March 9 (Reuters) - Ghana accepted 1.01 billion cedis ($218.6 million) worth of bids for a three-year domestic bond issued on Thursday that will pay a yield of 21.5 percent, lead arrangers said. The new government of President Nana Akufo-Addo, who took over in January, is trying to rebalance its finances as it faces large debts caused by years of overspending and lower than projected oil prices.
LAGOS, March 9 (Reuters) - Nigeria's Access Bank said its lending grew by 32 percent in 2016, far above its target for that year, due largely to a devaluation of the naira which drove up the local currency value of foreign loans.
NAIROBI, March 9 (Reuters) - The Kenyan shilling is seen depreciating in the week ahead through next Thursday as hard currency inflows into local debt auctions slows while Ghana's cedi is seen firming on healthy offshore appetite for the country's debt.
DENPASAR, Indonesia (Reuters) - An Indonesian court sentenced former Reuters journalist David Fox to seven months in prison on Thursday for possession of hashish, less than the one-year jail term sought by prosecutors, meaning that he can be released in a few weeks.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Binta found out she was pregnant, she knew she would have to leave her home in southern Senegal.
NORTH HORR, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the scorching 40-degree Celsius heat of this village in northern Kenya, waiting residents take shelter under acacia and palm trees. A group of 30 men queue next to a pen holding about 50 goats.
* Says Twyford (Tanzania) Ceramics plans to buy production equipment from Keda's Hong Kong unit for 93.8 million yuan ($13.58 million)
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Egypt needs to implement economic reforms aimed at encouraging more private investment and moving away from subsidies towards targeted transfers for the poor, a senior World Bank official said on Wednesday.
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's electricity costs will be the defining issue for the mining sector this year and beyond, Chamber of Mines President Nathan Chishimba said on Thursday.
JUBA (Reuters) - War-ravaged South Sudan has hiked work permit fees 100-fold for foreign aid workers to $10,000, officials said, despite suffering from famine.
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