ACCRA, March 24 (Reuters) - The Bank of Ghana said the yield on its weekly 91-day bill rose to 17.5103 percent at an auction on Friday, from 17.2108 percent at the last sale, on March 17. The bank said it had accepted 717.15 million cedis ($166.44 million) worth of bids out of 721.15 million cedis tendered for the 91-day paper, which will be issued on March 27. For full details, click here: https://www.bog.gov.gh/privatecontent/Treasury/Auctresults%201530.pdf
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa launched a new drug programme to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) on Friday in a bid to combat the leading cause of natural deaths in Africa's most industrialised economy.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Health workers are preparing to vaccinate more than 116 million children against polio across West and Central Africa in a drive to contain an outbreak of the disease in conflict-hit northeast Nigeria.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was freed on Friday for the first time in six years after being cleared this month of charges that he conspired to kill protesters in the 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule. Below are some key facts about Egypt's long-time ruler:
BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - Somali pirates have taken over a small Somali boat to use as a base to attack larger ships, Somali police said on Friday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - One man was killed and three others injured in an explosion in the Cairo suburb of Maadi, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Friday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president overthrown in 2011 and the first leader to face trial after the Arab Spring uprisings that swept the region, walked free on Friday for the first time in six years, his lawyer said.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Islamic State militants brutally invaded her hometown of Kobani in Syria, Shorash didn't initially see it as a career opportunity.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States warned South Sudan's government on Thursday that preventing humanitarian aid workers from reaching parts of the war-torn state that are suffering famine could "amount to deliberate starvation tactics."
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania's President John Magufuli sacked the country's information minister on Thursday, the first cabinet change since taking office in late 2015.
BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia said on Thursday it would set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission and offer reparations to victims of former President Yahya Jammeh's government, which is accused of the torture and killing of perceived opponents.
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 recouped a little lost ground on Friday amid signs a delayed vote on President Donald Trump's healthcare bill would go ahead later in the day, though it remained unclear whether it would pass. WORLD OIL PRICES Oil prices edged up on Friday, supported by a fall in Saudi exports t
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