ACCRA, April 12 (Reuters) - Ghana sold 809.89 million cedis ($182 mln) worth of seven-year domestic bonds issued on Thursday and will pay a yield of 16.25 percent, joint transaction arrangers Barclays Bank Ghana said.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda plans to slap a new tax on social media users from July to raise revenue, which human rights activists denounced as another attempt by President Yoweri Museveni to stifle freedom of expression and quash dissent to his 32-year-rule.
LUSAKA, April 12 (Reuters) - The Zambian and Tanzanian currencies are expected to trade on the back foot against the dollar in the coming week, while Kenya's is likely to firm.
JOHANNESBURG, April 12 (Reuters) - South African engineering company Group Five is looking at raising money via a rights issue to repay debt and bolster its finances after reporting a bigger than expected first-half loss following problems with a Ghana power project.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - More than 250 people including Western Sahara refugees were killed when a military plane crashed near Algeria's capital on Wednesday, state media said, with witnesses saying they saw a wing catch fire shortly after the plane took off.
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Armed men on Wednesday kidnapped a German man in western Niger near the border with Mali, Niger's attorney general said.
TUNIS (Reuters) - A Libyan military spokesman declined on Wednesday to address directly reports that key coalition military commander Khalifa Haftar was in the French capital Paris for medical treatment.
YAOUNDE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly 1 billion people in Africa will be vaccinated against yellow fever by 2026 in an ambitious United Nations campaign to eliminate epidemics of the deadly disease on the continent.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - France will propose the first names to be blacklisted by the United Nations Security Council for violating or obstructing Mali's 2015 peace deal, French U.N. Ambassador Francois Delattre said on Wednesday.
LILONGWE (Reuters) - The death toll from cholera in Malawi has risen to 30 from the 26 recorded last month, the Ministry of Health said Wednesday.
JOHANNESBURG, April 12 (Reuters) - South African construction and engineering firm Group Five said on Thursday its half-year loss widened more than it expected, following continued difficulties at its Kpone power project in Ghana.
NAIROBI, April 12 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Thursday. - - - - - EVENTS: *KENYA - The central bank to auction 91-day, 182-day and 364-day Treasury bills worth a total 24 billion shillings. *NIGERIA - The statistics office to release consumer inflation data for March. *IVORY COAST - New senate due to be sworn in. GLOBAL MARKETS Asian stocks came
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