ACCRA, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Ghana's government decided not to proceed with a planned 5-year local currency bond slated for final pricing on Thursday due to unfavourable market conditions, according to a note to investors seen by Reuters. The Finance Ministry had planned to issue the bond to roll-over maturing debts through book-building which opened on Wednesday with initial pricing guidance set at 20.5 percent - 21.5 percent and later revised to 19.75 percent - 21 percent. A senior Finance minis
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Thursday freed on bail the sons of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and others accused of illicit share trading, whose arrest last week was cited as one reason for a sharp drop in the stock market.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Ajay Gupta, one of the business friends of ex-president Jacob Zuma, denied on Thursday making any financial offer to South Africa's former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas or threatening to have him killed if he ever spoke of the matter.
ACCRA, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Ghana's government decided not to proceed with a planned 5-year local currency bond slated for final pricing on Thursday due to unfavourable market conditions, according to a note to investors seen by Reuters. The Finance Ministry had planned to issue the bond to roll-over maturing debts through book-building which opened on Wednesday with initial pricing guidance set at 20.5 percent - 21.5 percent and later revised to 19.75 percent - 21 percent. (Reporting by Kwasi Kp
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Police took away Ugandan opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi as he got off a plane at the country's main airport on Thursday but a police official denied he was under arrest and a government official said he had been taken to his home.
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania has suspended broadcasting of family planning advertisements by a U.S.-funded project, a health ministry letter showed, a fortnight after President John Magufuli said family planning was for those "too lazy to take care of their children".
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A passenger ferry in Tanzania's Lake Victoria has sunk and rescue operations are underway, Tanzanian authorities said on Thursday.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Police took away Ugandan opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi as he got off a plane at the country's main airport on Thursday on his return from abroad, but an official denied that he was under arrest.
ACCRA, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Ghana's industry regulator Cocobod is in talks with international lenders for a $300 million medium-term loan on top of a $1.3 billion syndicated facility signed on Thursday, Chief Executive Joseph Boahen Aidoo said.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi was taken to a police station near his home in Kampala on Thursday, a Reuters witness said, after police picked him up at the international airport on his return from overseas.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Opposition lawmaker Robert Kyagulanyi, an arch-critic of long-ruling President Yoweri Museveni, has landed at Uganda's international airport, NTV Uganda reported on Thursday.
MILAN (Reuters) - A Milan court has sentenced two defendants to prison terms in a Nigeria corruption case related to a 2011 offshore oilfield purchase, a legal source said on Thursday.
ACCRA, Sept 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a junk-strewn lot on the outskirts of Ghana's capital, weary-looking street vendors gathered to hear their leader Vida Tangwam passionately protest their impending eviction.
ACCRA, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Ghana's cocoa industry regulator Cocobod signed a $1.3 billion loan with international banks on Thursday to fund purchases for the 2018/19 season, due to open early next month, it said.
ACCRA, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Ghana's cocoa industry regulator Cocobod signed a $1.3 billion loan with international banks on Thursday to fund purchases for the 2018/19 season, due to open early next month, it said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African man was arrested and will be charged in court for posting a video on social media in which he hurled racial abuse at President Cyril Ramaphosa, police said on Thursday.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's security forces sealed off roads and erected barricades around the country's main international airport on Thursday, ahead of the expected return of a popular lawmaker and critic of President Yoweri Museveni, witnesses said.
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria has suspended its plan to relaunch its national airline, a junior aviation minister said on Wednesday.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Outgoing Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila's preferred successor will face a credible election challenge in December from two opposition leaders, the final list of candidates published on Wednesday showed.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday made sweeping changes to the country's top civil service, retiring a batch of long-serving bureaucrats and promoting new faces in a break with his predecessor Robert Mugabe.
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