COTONOU (Reuters) - Several people were killed when a train operated by a subsidiary of French industrial group Bollore in Benin collided with a speeding bus, authorities said on Wednesday.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday called for the arrest and surrender of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who is wanted on war crimes charges for allegedly suppressing opposition to the rule of his father, former Libya ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma is consulting legal advisers about setting up a judicial inquiry into allegations of influence-peddling within his government, his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa told parliament on Wednesday.
YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Striking self-assurance, a penchant for hyperbole and a working knowledge of Latin - these are the hallmarks of the latest group of militants to emerge in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta.
ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian tribunal dismissed charges against the Senate president, the country's third most powerful politician, of false declaration of assets on Wednesday.
PRETORIA (Reuters) - Madagascar president Hery Rajaonarimampianina said on Wednesday that the government did not plan to go through with planned changes to its mining code that had alarmed investors.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's plan to hand over two uninhabited Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia under an agreement that has caused widespread controversy moved closer to fruition with parliament set to vote on the measure on Wednesday.
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Authorities in Niger rescued 92 West African migrants last week abandoned by traffickers in the Sahara desert as they tried to cross into neighbouring Libya, the International Organization for Migration said on Wednesday.
ACCRA, June 14 (Reuters) - Ghana's annual consumer price inflation fell to 12.6 percent in May from 13.0 percent the previous month due to lower fuel prices, the statistics office said on Wednesday.
ACCRA, June 14 (Reuters) - Ghana's annual consumer price inflation fell to 12.6 percent in May from 13.0 percent the previous month, the statistics office said on Wednesday. The government is aiming to narrow inflation to 11.2 percent by the end of the year as one part of a drive to restore macro economic stability under a three-year assistance programme with the International Monetary Fund. (Reporting by Kwasi Kpodo; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg)
DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar has withdrawn its troops from the border between Djibouti and Eritrea, where the Gulf state has been acting as mediator in a border dispute, the Qatari Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A second body has been found in the wreckage of a collapsed residential building in Kenya's capital, the Red Cross said.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of Algeria and France on Tuesday urged Libya's rival armed factions to seek a political solution in the North African country to help stem the spread of militant groups there and potential spillover across its borders.
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's parliament suspended 48 opposition lawmakers on Tuesday for boycotting a speech by the president, widening a political rift that has alarmed rights groups.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo has suffered two separate outbreaks of polio, a debilitating and potentially deadly disease that the world is trying to eradicate, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Wednesday. - - - - - GLOBAL MARKETS Asian shares turned mixed on Wednesday as investors everywhere awaited clarity on the Federal Reserve's future path for U.S. policy after a likely rate rise later in the day. WORLD OIL PRICES Oil prices fell by one percent early on Wednesday after data showed a build in U.S. crude stock
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