KANANGA, Congo (Reuters) - The head of Congo's election commission said on Thursday that better security in the conflict-ravaged Kasai region had enabled preparations for a delayed election to replace President Joseph Kabila, but it still may not happen before a year-end deadline.
ACCRA, July 27 (Reuters) - Ghana sold a 1.49 billion cedi ($341.2 mln) five-year domestic bond on Thursday at a yield of 18.5 percent, lead arranger Barclays Bank Ghana said.
ACCRA, July 27 (Reuters) - Ghana's central bank's 1.5 percent rate cut this week will boost lending by local banks and is a signal that the economy is gradually improving, Moody's Investors Service said on Thursday.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's top tourist hub Cape Town expects a 13 percent jump in tourist arrivals this year to 1.77 million, officials said on Thursday, a rare bright spot in an economy that slid into recession in March,
LAGOS (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google aims to train 10 million people in Africa in online skills over the next five years in an effort to make them more employable, its chief executive said on Thursday.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean First Lady Grace Mugabe on Friday challenged her president husband Robert to name his preferred successor to end deepening divisions over the future leadership of the ruling ZANU-PF party, state television said in an online report.
DOUALA, Cameroon (Reuters) - One person was killed in Cameroon when a freight train operated by state rail company Camrail derailed, less than one year after another Camrail train crash killed 79, an official said on Thursday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Two elderly sheikhs have set up shop at a kiosk in one of Cairo's busiest underground stations, ready to dole out religious advice to commuters queueing outside.
ACCRA, July 27 (Reuters) - Ghana's central bank's 150 basis point rate cut this week will boost lending by local banks and signals that the economy is gradually improving, Moody's Investors Service said on Thursday.
NAIROBI, July 27 (Reuters) - Uganda's shilling and Zambia's kwacha are forecast to weaken against the dollar in the next week to Thursday, while Ghana's cedi will firm and the currencies of Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania are expected to hold steady, traders said. KENYA Kenya's shilling is expected to hold steady in the next week to Thursday, and traders said they anticipate the central bank to sell dollars to keep it from weakening further. Commercial banks quoted the shill
ROME (Reuters) - Italy intends to deploy several ships in Libyan waters by the end of August to fight human trafficking and stem a flood of immigrants, a government source said on Thursday.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Department store Stuttafords, the 159-year-old "Harrods of South Africa", is closing down, victim of a global shift to online retail and a domestic economic slump that has put brands such as Ted Baker and Gap beyond its customers' reach.
LONDON (Reuters) - Tour operator Thomas Cook will restart holidays in Tunisia now that Britain has softened its travel advice to the country, the firm's boss said on Thursday.
PRAGUE (Reuters) - A Czech woman stabbed in an Egyptian holiday resort earlier this month has died, the Czech Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's military has rescued all members of an oil survey team kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants, it said in a statement on Wednesday, after they were taken in the country's conflict-ridden northeast.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's upper house of parliament backed a series of constitutional amendments on Wednesday that could weaken the presidency and boost the legislature, the latest twist in a two-year power struggle between the two institutions.
BAMAKO (Reuters) - A German military helicopter assigned to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali crashed in the West African nation's desert north on Wednesday, killing the two crew members, the German military said.
The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Thursday. - - - - - GLOBAL MARKETS Stocks, bonds and commodities were all on a roll in Asia on Thursday, as bulls scented a softening in the Federal Reserve's confidence on inflation that promised to keep U.S. interest rates low for longer than some had expected. WORLD OIL PRICES Oil prices were sitting just b
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