NAIROBI (Reuters) - Three men working as porters for the U.N.'s World Food Programme were killed in ethnic violence in South Sudan's Wau city earlier this week, the organisation said on Friday, the latest violence against humanitarian workers in the famine-hit nation.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo arrested two suspects in last month's killing of two U.N. investigators in central Congo, but one of them escaped, the military's top prosecutor said on Friday.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Crop-eating caterpillars known as fall armyworms have damaged crops across southern Ethiopia, the latest country to be struck by the pests in a region already struggling with widespread drought and hunger, authorities said on Thursday.
The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Friday. - - - - - GLOBAL MARKETS Japanese and South Korean shares headed lower while the won came under pressure on Friday, hurt by rising geopolitical tensions in the Korean peninsular in otherwise holiday-thinned trade. WORLD OIL PRICES Oil prices were little changed in modest volume on Thursday, during a we
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