ACCRA, July 13 (Reuters) - The yield on Ghana's 91-day treasury bill dipped to 13.31 percent at an auction on Friday, compared with 13.32 percent at the last sale on July 6, the central bank said.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Eight black rhinos have died in Kenya while being transported by the state wildlife service between two national parks, Tourism Minister Najib Balala said on Friday in a statement.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to visit South Africa for a summit of BRICS countries on July 26-27, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said on Friday.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has suspended its top prosecutor, Ray Goba, for failing to prosecute high-profile corruption cases among other allegations, state media said on Friday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Seven endangered black rhinos are dead after a botched relocation by Kenya's wildlife service, local media reported on Friday.
PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa on Friday launched a set of limited edition bank notes and gold coins to mark the 100th anniversary on July 18 of the birth of Nelson Mandela.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Eritrea will reopen its embassy in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, on Sunday, Ethiopia's state-affiliated broadcaster said on Friday, before a visit by Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki.
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon's President Paul Biya will run for re-election in October, he said on Friday, aiming to extend his 36-year rule and maintain his place on a shortening roster of long-standing African leaders.
HARARE (Reuters) - A European investor's phone rings in a Harare restaurant and it's good news: an $80 million construction deal has been agreed with the Zimbabwean government. All that's needed now is a central bank guarantee letter. It never arrives.
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss authorities have released around $60 million of funds seized in an investigation into the suspected laundering of money diverted from Angola's sovereign wealth fund and its central bank, federal prosecutors said on Friday.
ROME (Reuters) - Dozens of migrants rescued at sea and brought to an Italian port on Thursday cannot disembark, the country's far-right interior minister said, reversing a decision by a fellow minister and opening a rift within the government.
TORONTO (Reuters) - The influx of asylum seekers that threw Canada’s refugee system into disarray slowed in June after also falling in May, the first two-month decline since the wave ramped up last year, according to preliminary figures from government officials and border agents.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki will visit Ethiopia on Saturday, Eritrea's information minister Yemane Meskel said on Friday, days after the two neighbours declared their "state of war" over.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian firefighters battled flames that erupted after an explosion at a chemicals factory outside Cairo's main airport on Thursday, with a dozen people reported injured in a blast an army spokesman said was caused by high temperatures.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Friday on a U.S.-drafted resolution that would impose an arms embargo on South Sudan, five years after civil war broke out in the country, diplomats said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has linked increased U.S. investment in the Democratic Republic of Congo to a transparent and fair general election in December, a special envoy for Congolese President Joseph Kabila said.
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