WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Canadian-based mining company Kinross Gold agreed to pay $950,000 to settle civil charges that it failed to ensure its payments in Africa were not being used to bribe government officials.
ABIDJAN, March 26 (Reuters) - South African retailer Massmart is continuing its pan-African expansion with plans to open about 20 new stores outside its home market over the next three years, the company's chairman said on Monday.
ABIDJAN, March 26 (Reuters) - South African retailer Massmart is ramping up its pan-African expansion strategy with plans to open around 20 new stores outside its home market over the next three years, company chairman Kuseni Dlamini said on Monday.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma was due to appear in court on April 6 to face charges of corruption in a years-old $2.5 billion arms deal, his lawyer said on Monday.
FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's High Court on Monday vacated an injunction to delay a second round of the presidential election, which had been scheduled to take place on Tuesday, Justice Abdul Rahman Mansaray said.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo said on Monday it would refuse international financing for a long-delayed presidential election and fund the poll itself, saying donors' conditions amounted to "foreign interference".
ABIDJAN, March 26 (Reuters) - Above-average rainfall boosted Ivory Coast's cocoa mid-crop last week, farmers said on Monday, dismissing fears that output will be much lower than last season due to dry weather.
LUANDA (Reuters) - The son of Angola's ex-president, José Filomeno dos Santos, has been charged with fraud relating to a $500 million transaction out of a central bank account, state radio reported on Monday.
ACCRA, March 26 (Reuters) - Ghana's central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by 200 basis points to 18 percent on Monday, saying its medium-term inflation target was on course, Governor Ernest Addison told a news conference in the capital Accra.
ACCRA, March 26 (Reuters) - Ghana's central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by 200 basis points to 18 percent on Monday, saying its medium-term inflation target was on course, Governor Ernest Addison told a news conference in the capital Accra.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's police killed six militants on Sunday belonging to a group the authorities accuse of a bombing in the coastal city of Alexandria that targeted a security chief two days before the country holds a presidential election.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt said on Sunday it had deported a British journalist for the Times newspaper last month because she was working illegally.
NAIROBI/MORONI (Reuters) - A programme to sell Comoros Islands citizenship to fund development resulted in thousands of passports being sold outside official channels via "mafia" networks and up to $100 million of revenues went missing, according to a report by the small Indian Ocean state's parliament.
JOHANNESBURG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Before 20-year-old Lebogang Motsumi even had sex with her first "blesser" - or sugar daddy - a successful, married, company boss more than twice her age, he handed her a wad of cash.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - The humanitarian situation in Democratic Republic of Congo is getting worse by the day, the European Union's top aid official said on Sunday, as the Congolese government shunned a conference seeking to alleviate the suffering.
FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone opposition leader Julius Maada Bio, winner of the first round of a presidential election earlier this month, on Sunday criticised the ruling party's successful bid to have a run-off poll delayed over alleged fraud.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police could this week issue former president Jacob Zuma with a court summons relating to corruption charges over a years-old $2.5 billion arms deal, a spokesman for the Hawks investigative crime unit said on Sunday.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's government is in talks with Islamist militant group Boko Haram about a possible ceasefire with the ultimate aim of securing a permanent cessation of hostilities, the country's information minister said on Sunday.
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