ACCRA, Nov 10 (Reuters) - The Bank of Ghana said the yield on its weekly 91-day bill rose to 13.32 percent at an auction on Friday, from 13.15 percent at the last such sale on Nov.3.
ACCRA, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Ghana has named Fieldstone and PricewaterhouseCoopers to lead its planned sale of thermal assets worth up to $2 billion, in an effort to relieve its debt-laden power sector, government sources told Reuters on Friday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Suspected militants shot dead at least nine truck drivers in Egypt's Sinai region late on Thursday when they targeted a transport convoy, setting the vehicles on fire, medical and security sources said on Friday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's government has proposed in a draft bill to give 30 percent of prospective oil revenue to the community where the resource was discovered, climbing down from its earlier proposal to cap the amount.
ABUJA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For the past three weeks, Kolo Adamu has slept on the floor beside her daughter Naomi's hospital bed in northeast Nigeria, unable to afford the surgery she needs for a kidney condition.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Burundi on Friday rejected plans by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to allow prosecutors to investigate war crimes in the central African nation, while rights groups and opposition politicians welcomed the move.
ACCRA, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Ghana has named Fieldstone and PricewaterhouseCoopers to lead its planned sale of thermal assets worth up to $2 billion, in an effort to relieve its debt-laden power sector, government sources told Reuters on Friday.
ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Police in Nigeria's southern Delta state said they killed one suspect and arrested two others accused of involvement in the kidnapping last month of four Britons.
HARARE (Reuters) - A high court judge in Zimbabwe said on Thursday the state's case against a U.S. citizen charged with trying to subvert President Robert Mugabe's government lacked facts and ordered that she be granted bail.
BUSHENYI, Uganda (Reuters) - When Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni returned to his home region to throw an Independence Day party last month, the uniformed security outnumbered the small crowd of bored spectators.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's main opposition leader said on Thursday that anger over last month's presidential election ran so deep it threatened to tear the country apart.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African politician Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Thursday it was fine if the country's white business community declined to endorse her bid to succeed President Jacob Zuma as leader of the African National Congress (ANC).
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Eighteen people, including a provincial lawmaker, went on trial in eastern Congo on Thursday for the rapes of dozens of children, victims' rights activists said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's government is considering a range of budget cuts that could include slashing social grants for the most vulnerable in order to pay for free tertiary education, a newspaper reported on Friday.
NAIROBI, Nov 10 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Friday. - - - - - EVENTS: *Rwanda to release its consumer inflation data for October. GLOBAL MARKETS Asian shares slipped on Friday on uncertainty about U.S. tax reforms after Senate Republicans unveiled a plan that differed from the House of Representatives' version in several key areas, including a del
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