BANGUI (Reuters) - At least 35 people were wounded on Tuesday in fighting in a Central African Republic town, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said, just a day after armed groups signed a peace deal with the government aimed at ending years of violence.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Trade Representative said on Tuesday it was reviewing trade benefits to Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) after a complaint over a ban on imports of used clothing into the East African market.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - U.N. Refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie marked World Refugee Day on Tuesday at a Kenyan home housing refugee girls who fled unaccompanied or split from their parents while fleeing conflict.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's new government is preparing the legal framework for Islamic finance and new Islamic bonds and will make more changes to its welfare system to offset lower oil prices, according to an official document.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian jets bombed a gathering site of Sinai-based Islamist militants, killing 12 and destroying several four-wheel-drive vehicles, the military said on Tuesday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - At least 10 people have been killed in a car bomb attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu that targeted a government building and was claimed by Islamist insurgents, a government official said.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The government-backed Bana Mura militia in Congo has committed horrific crimes in ethnically-motivated attacks in the past few months, including cutting off toddlers' limbs and slicing open pregnant women, the U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday.
JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan’s civil war has mutated from a two-way fight between the president and his ousted former deputy to a fragmented conflict, making it harder to put it back together and peace more elusive, the top U.N. peacekeeper in the country said.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A loud explosion was heard in the south of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday but its cause was unknown, a government official said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress secretary general, Gwede Mantashe, described a call for the reserve bank monetary policy to be changed as "Public Protector overreach" on Tuesday.
DAYR JARNOUS, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian schoolboy Mina Habib rarely leaves his house these days. The 10-year-old is still recovering from seeing Islamist gunmen kill his father for being Christian.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese security forces and militia members fighting them have killed at least 3,383 people in the Kasai region since last October, the country's Catholic church said on Tuesday in a report based on local church sources.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's justice minister said on Monday that his government would not admit an independent investigation into violence in its Kasai region which has been called for by a top U.N. human rights official.
* Undertaken select hedging of oil price and australian dollar gold price given recent volatility in commodity prices and exchange rates
BAMAKO (Reuters) - A new alliance of Islamist militant groups linked to al Qaeda on Monday claimed responsibility for an attack that killed at least five people at a Mali luxury resort popular with Western expatriates just outside the capital Bamako.
June 20 (Reuters) - Africa-focused oil company Tullow Oil Plc said it had appointed Les Wood as its finance head, after its Chief Financial Officer Ian Springett stepped down due to ill health.
The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Tuesday. - - - - - GLOBAL MARKETS Japan's Nikkei rose more than 1 percent to a near two-year high on Tuesday, encouraged by rebound in U.S. hi-tech shares as investors bet on solid growth in the economy and corporate profits globally. WORLD OIL PRICES Oil markets held around seven-month lows on Tuesday a
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