MILAN, May 2 (Reuters) - Pescara midfielder Sulley Muntari has been banned for one game after he walked off the pitch at Cagliari on Sunday, having been booked for complaining to the referee about racist abuse in the crowd.
NAKURU, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The sight of overflowing heaps of plastic waste at Gioto, the largest dump in Nakuru County, in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, was an eyesore that turned photojournalist James Waikibia into an environmental activist.
BAMAKO (Reuters) - A subsidiary of UK mining firm Hummingbird Resources is on course to start production at an $88 million open cast gold mine in Mali this year, its director and Mali's Minister for Mines told Reuters.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar met the head of the country's U.N.-backed government Fayez Seraj in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, reversing his previous refusal to engage with the Tripoli government despite months of diplomatic pressure.
GENEVA (Reuters) - About 1.4 million children in drought-hit Somalia are projected to suffer acute malnutrition this year, 50 percent more than estimated in January, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal's President Macky Sall dismissed his energy minister on Tuesday, the president's office said in a statement that gave no reason for the sudden move.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Armed attacks on ships in West African waters nearly doubled in 2016, with pirates increasingly focused on kidnapping their crew for ransom off Nigeria's coast, a report said on Tuesday.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's government may appeal last week's court judgment declaring a cooperation pact with Russia's state-owned nuclear company Rosatom unlawful, the energy minister said on Tuesday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Militants killed three policemen and injured five others in a shooting in Cairo late on Monday, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's ailing President Muhammadu Buhari, who had nearly two month's medical treatment in Britain earlier this year, should take medical leave immediately, civil society leaders have said in an open letter.
DAKAR (Reuters) - Armed groups in Central African Republic have killed at least 45 civilians in apparent reprisal strikes over the past three months, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Tuesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - The start of a trial brought by Libya's $67 billion sovereign wealth fund against Societe Generale has been adjourned until Wednesday, a spokesperson for the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) said.
NAIROBI, May 2 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Tuesday. - - - - - EVENTS: SOUTH AFRICA: Moody’s announces its ratings decision on South Africa this week. The agency put South Africa on review for a downgrade after the President Jacob Zuma cabinet reshuffle that saw a respected finance minister being fired. GLOBAL MARKETS Asian shares rose to near two
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