ACCRA, July 16 (Reuters) - Ghana's central bank said on Monday it had cancelled the acquisition of 51 pct of Agriculture Development Bank by a consortium led by U.S. investor Belstar Capital because the stakes had been acquired inappropriately.
ACCRA, July 16 (Reuters) - Ghana's central bank said on Monday has cancelled the acquisition of 51 pct of Agriculture Development Bank by a consortium led by U.S. investor Belstar Capital because the stakes were acquired inappropriately.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - China is saddling poor nations with unsustainable debt through large-scale infrastructure projects that are not economically viable, the head of the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) said on Monday.
PARIS (Reuters) - France on Monday expelled an Islamist suspected of being a spiritual tutor to one of the killers in the attack on Charlie Hebdo newspaper and to one of the attackers at a Jewish supermarket in 2015.
ABIDJAN, July 16 (Reuters) - Abundant rainfall in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa regions last week is helping flowers develop into small pods and bodes well for the October-to-March main crop, farmers said on Monday.
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead 14 civilians in an attack on a village in northeastern Mali, a local official said on Monday, amid a spate of killings by rival ethnic groups and jihadist militants that threatens to derail a presidential election later this month.
KOGELO, Kenya (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Barack Obama urged Kenya's leaders on Monday to turn their backs on the divisive ethnic politics that have frequently spilled over into violence and to stamp down on corruption.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The chief executive of Kenya Power, his immediate predecessor and 10 other senior managers at the company were charged in court on Monday with conspiracy to commit an economic crime and abuse of office, court documents showed.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Eight migrants including six children were found dead on Monday after suffocating from petrol fumes while packed into a lorry container on the west Libyan coast, authorities said.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya Power's board said on Monday its business operations would not be affected after senior management, including the chief executive, were arrested over the weekend in connection with an economic crimes investigation.
RABAT (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Morocco's capital Rabat on Sunday to demonstrate against the jailing of leaders of a protest movement in the predominantly Berber region of Rif.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's ruling party won a governorship election in southwestern Ekiti state, officials said, unseating the opposition and giving President Muhammadu Buhari a boost ahead of national polls next year.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Five miners died on Sunday in a fire at a South African copper mine operated by unlisted Palabora Mining Company, the company said in a statement.
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's president called on Sunday for Prime Minister Youssef Chahed to step down or seek a confidence quote if the country's political and economic crisis continues, withdrawing his support for the premier, who has clashed with the president's son.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrea's President Isaias Afwerki arrived at a ceremony on Monday to re-open Eritrea's embassy in the Ethiopian capital, a Reuters witness said.
TEPIC, Mexico, July 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - S upplying clean water and toilets for all could take hundreds of years in countries like Eritrea and Namibia unless governments step up funding to tackle the problem and its harmful effects on health, an international development agency warned on Monday.
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