* S&P SAYS GHANA 'B-/B' RATINGS AFFIRMED; OUTLOOK REMAINS POSITIVE
ACCRA, March 23 (Reuters) - The Bank of Ghana said the yield on its weekly 91-day bill edged up to 13.36 percent at an auction on Friday, compared to the 13.34 percent at the last sale on March 16.
* Country in final year of $918 mln IMF credit deal (Adds quotes, context)
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Friday that militants in the Sinai Peninsula would soon be defeated as he visited troops there days ahead of an election that is set to grant him a second term, state news agency MENA reported.
KIDAL, Mali (Reuters) - Mali's prime minister arrived in Kidal on Friday, the first senior government delegation in three years to visit the city, which has been under the control of Tuareg rebels since 2012.
ACCRA, March 23 (Reuters) - Ghana's parliament on Friday approved plans by the government to issue a Eurobond of $1 billion by the end of April to finance the 2018 budget, a Reuters witness said.
CHIKWAWA, Malawi (Reuters) - A worsening pest infestation is threatening Malawi's staple maize crop for the second year running, leaving farmers struggling to salvage crops already faltering due to drought.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari met 107 schoolgirls on Friday freed by Islamist militant group Boko Haram and promised to secure the release any of their classmates still held in the remote northeast.
DOLLOW, Somalia (Reuters) - At the height of Somalia's 2011 famine, Madow Mohamed had to leave her crippled five-year-old son Abdirahman by the side of the road to lead her eight other starving children towards help.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Nicolas Sarkozy will challenge a barring order that forbids him from meeting key accusers and allies or travelling to countries such as Libya pending a judicial investigation into allegations that Muammar Gaddafi bankrolled his 2007 election campaign.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has detected an outbreak of avian flu in seabirds, citing the highly pathogenic H5N8 strain that infected the country's poultry industry last year.
ABIDJAN, March 23 (Reuters) - Cameroon cocoa bean and product exports reached 209,000 tonnes by the end of February, down 9 percent from the same period last season, official data from regulator ONCC showed on Friday.
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's prime minister said on Friday that economic reforms should start quickly, especially with public companies, and said that selling some of them would help public finances.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Mastercard Foundation, a private Canada-based charity, said on Thursday it will invest $100 million in Rwanda to train young people with skills in order to reduce unemployment.
DAKAR (Reuters) - The United Nations closed its peacekeeping mission to Liberia on Thursday, 15 years after it was deployed in the aftermath of two civil wars that ended with the fall of then-president Charles Taylor.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted an invitation from his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Bashir to visit the North African country, Sudan's state news agency said on Thursday.
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's main opposition party filed a motion on Thursday seeking the impeachment of President Edgar Lungu, accusing him of constitutional breaches, the presidency said on Friday.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria needs to boost investment in social infrastructure to lift its population out of poverty and achieve a higher income status, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told Reuters on Thursday.
FREETOWN (Reuters) - Election authorities in Sierra Leone accused police late on Wednesday of intimidating staff and obstructing their work as they prepared for next week's presidential run-off vote.
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