* Continent gives itself 18 months to hammer out details (Adds South African presidency comments)
KIGALI, March 21 (Reuters) - African leaders agreed on Wednesday to form a $3 trillion continental free-trade zone encompassing 1.2 billion people, but its two biggest economies, Nigeria and South Africa, did not sign up, diminishing its impact.
----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ---------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 ** BEIJING - China's top diplomat Wang Yi meets Philippine Foreign Minister Alan Peter Cayetano and holds a news conference - 1000 GMT. ** TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen speaks at an annual dinner held by the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei - 1030 GMT.
MWENE DITU, Democratic Republic of Congo, March 21 (Reuters) - The guns have fallen silent in the Congolese town of Mwene Ditu, but each day starving children arrive at the small hospital there battling for their lives.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Some of the 110 schoolgirls abducted from the northeast Nigerian town of Dapchi last month were brought back on Wednesday, two witnesses said.
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The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Wednesday. - - - - - EVENTS: *African states sign deal to usher in new giant trade bloc *Kenya Airways releases earnings results for the nine months to end December 2017 GLOBAL MARKETS A hush settled over financial markets on Wednesday as investors anticipated a quarter point hike in the Federal Reserve's policy rate and awaited guida
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