HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government distanced itself on Wednesday from a deputy minister who said the army wouldn't allow the opposition to rule if it wins an election this year.
JOHANNESBURG, May 23 (Reuters) - South African gold miner AngloGold Ashanti plans to cut 2,000 jobs at its domestic operations, it said on Wednesday, as part of plans to cut costs.
CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's parliamentary majority rejected opposition calls for an inquiry into French billionaire Vincent Bollore on Wednesday, saying the investigation was a purely French matter.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday he had established an inquiry into tax administration and governance amid allegations of corruption against the suspended head of the revenue service.
KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda has signed a sponsorship and tourism promotion deal with the English soccer club Arsenal, establishing a commercial bond with President Paul Kagame's favourite team, the Rwanda government said on Wednesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's leader of the North West province, Supra Mahumapelo, said on Wednesday he will go on early retirement after weeks of protests against his leadership.
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ACCRA, May 23 (Reuters) - Ghana's producer price inflation rose to 6.4 percent year-on-year in April from 3.7 percent in March, the statistics office said on Wednesday. The major commodity exporter is in its final year of a $918 million credit deal with the International Monetary Fund and aims to narrow consumer inflation to 8 percent this year. PPI is an indicator of real sector growth. (Reporting By Kwasi Kpodo)
GAROWE, Somalia (Reuters) - More than 50 people have died in Somaliland, livestock has been wiped out and hundreds of farms destroyed by heavy rains and floods caused by a tropical cyclone that hit the Horn of Africa, officials and aid agencies in the breakaway Somali region said.
MBANDAKA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Two of three Ebola patients who escaped quarantine in the Congo river port city of Mbandaka have died, the head of medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres' (MSF) mission in the city said on Wednesday.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Lawyers for jailed Congo Republic opposition figure Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko called on the International Monetary Fund to make his release a condition for the approval of a bailout for the debt-crippled oil producer.
ABUJA (Reuters) - A cholera outbreak has killed 12 people and may have infected at least 134 others in the northeast Nigerian state of Adamawa, a medical official said on Wednesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A criminal gang in South Africa who kidnapped a teenage boy on Sunday are demanding a ransom in bitcoin crytocurrency of nearly $120,000, police said.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar engaged in fierce clashes around the city of Derna on Tuesday, as two soldiers were killed in a car bomb and another was abducted from a checkpoint elsewhere in the east.
LONDON (Reuters) - Lawyers for the Bodo community in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta, which was devastated by two major oil spills a decade ago, went to court in London on Tuesday to fend off what they said was an attempt by Shell to kill off their litigation.
ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday called for a criminal investigation into the head of the country's football association, Kwesi Nyantakyi, for fraudulently using the President's name.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A 72-year-old pensioner has been found guilty in a British court of raping two Kenyan girls while he was on holiday in the East African nation, the latest example of cross-border collaboration to stamp out child sex offences by Western tourists.
NAIROBI, May 23 - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Wednesday. - - - - - GLOBAL MARKETS Asian shares were mostly weak on Wednesday with investors cautious after U.S. President Donald Trump tempered optimism over progress made so far in trade talks between the world's two largest economic powers. WORLD OIL PRICES Oil prices edged lower on Wed
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