ACCRA, April 13 (Reuters) - The Bank of Ghana said the yield on its weekly 91-day bill inched up to 13.36 percent at an auction on Friday, compared with 13.33 percent at the last sale on April 6.
----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. Indicates new events ---------------------------------------------------------- FRIDAY, APRIL 13 ** PERU – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will meet Venezuelan opposition leaders in Lima. ** PERU – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence to meet with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Lima. ** BERLIN – Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic visits Berlin & meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. ** GERMANY -
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations called on Friday for global funding to aid millions of people facing hellish living conditions in Democratic Republic of Congo after years of factional bloodshed and lawlessness.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda is considering a request from Israel to take in 500 migrants from Eritrea and Sudan, a minister said on Friday, the first time the East African nation has acknowledged it is in talks over such a deal.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari announced on Monday he wants to seek another term in office in February 2019 elections. With that declaration, the race to lead Africa's largest democracy is underway. The path ahead could be tough for his All Progressives Congress (APC), the People's Democratic Party (PDP) opposition and any other party that may contest the vote.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, has held talks with officials from opposition groups and civil society, state-affiliated media said, in the latest sign he is willing to push through political reforms announced in the wake of protests.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Starving children are the glaring face of Congo's humanitarian crisis, but millions more people are suffering slow onset malnutrition which could have harmful effects for generations, the United Nations said on Thursday.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Islamist fighters from Nigeria's Boko Haram group have abducted more than 1,000 children in the northeast since 2013, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said on Friday.
YAMOUSSOUKRO (Reuters) - Ivory Coast inaugurated on Thursday its first senate, an upper house to the West African nation's parliament that President Alassane Ouattara called a "chamber of wisdom" but which the opposition says will tighten his grip on power.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's state security prosecutor has summoned the former editor of a local newspaper and eight of its reporters for questioning over their coverage of the presidential election, the general secretary of the journalists syndicate said Thursday.
BANGUI (Reuters) - The United Nations' head of peacekeeping said on Thursday that civilians killed in gunbattles in Central African Republic's capital this week had been armed by criminal gangs that U.N. troops are attempting to stamp out.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A bomb killed up to five spectators at a football match in southern Somalia, police and a lawmaker said on Friday, the first time an explosion has targeted a stadium.
MAKURDI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's bid for re-election next year could hinge on the swing states of the country's "Middle Belt". Worryingly for him, a surge in violence there and rising food prices are chipping away at his support.
NAIROBI, April 13 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Friday. - - - - - EVENTS: *CONGO REPUBLIC - Finance ministers from the West African and Central African monetary unions meet in Congo Republic's capital Brazzaville to discuss the franc currency and other economic issues. *MAURITIUS - Bank of Mauritius to auction 364-day Treasury bills worth a total 800
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