ACCRA, June 7 (Reuters) - Ghana will begin its minor cocoa mid-crop purchases on Friday and will keep the price at which it buys beans from farmers at 7,600 cedis ($1,914) per tonne, industry regulator Cocobod said on Wednesday. Cocobod has projected to buy around 70,000 tonnes of beans through the usually 11-week mid-crop harvest which is discounted to local grinders. "The producer price to be paid at all buying centres is 475 cedis per bag of 64 kilograms gross. This translates to 7,600 cedis
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A loud explosion was heard in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday and its cause has yet to be established, a Reuters witness said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma may be removed as head of state after a December conference when a new leader of the ruling African National Congress will be chosen, Secretary General Gwede Mantashe said on Wednesday.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Eight people have been killed and thousands forced from their homes as South Africa's tourist base Cape Town and surrounding areas were hit by the worst winter storm in 30 years, officials said on Wednesday.
DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal said on Wednesday it would recall its ambassador in Qatar and expressed its "active solidarity" with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries which have cut ties to Qatar.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Arnaud Kalala had queued for hours in Kinshasa's rainy season heat to register to vote in an overdue election to replace Congolese President Joseph Kabila, but the 44-year-old civil servant had little faith in the new deadline.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The biggest wind farm in sub-Saharan Africa is ready for launch but will remain idle until next year as Kenya's government has not yet installed the transmission lines needed to get the clean power to customers, the provider of the turbines said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress party is being damaged by leaked emails alleging fraud in the awarding of state contracts, the party's secretary general, Gwede Mantashe, said on Tuesday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Dozens of Chinese nationals who had been held for illegal mining in Zambia have departed the African country to return home, China's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
JUBA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sixteen-year-old Stacey narrowly escaped what could have been a life of poverty and prostitution on the streets of South Sudan's capital Juba when she was taken into a shelter and offered safety and schooling.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - France on Tuesday proposed that the United Nations Security Council back a West African force to combat terrorism, drug and human trafficking by "eradicating the actions" of Islamist militants and organized crime groups in the Sahel region.
PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - Italy broke up a criminal ring smuggling migrants safely to Sicily for about 3,000 euros ($3,379) on a speedboat capable of making the crossing from Tunisia in less than four hours, magistrates said on Tuesday.
NAIROBI, June 7 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Wednesday. - - - - - EVENTS: *Seychelles to release its consumer price inflation data for May. GLOBAL MARKETS Asian stocks inched higher on Wednesday but investors remained noticeably risk averse, with gold and sovereign debt set for a second day of solid gains ahead of several major political and economi
ACCRA, June 6 (Reuters) - A re-emergence of swollen shoot disease in Ghana has affected at least 17 percent of cocoa trees, further threatening output in the world's second largest producing country where nearly a quarter of farms are moribund, industry regulator Cocobod said on Tuesday.
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