ACCRA, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The yield on Ghana's 91-day treasury bill edged up to 13.41 percent at an auction on Friday, compared with 13.40 percent at the last sale on Sept. 28, the central bank said.
NAIROBI, Oct 5 (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Melania Trump read to children at an orphanage, fed a baby elephant, and went on a short safari on Friday in Kenya, the third country on her nearly week-long Africa tour.
HAWASSA, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Ethiopia's ruling EPRDF coalition on Friday re-elected Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as its chairman, its chief of staff said, further anchoring the authority of the 42-year-old leader as he pushes through sweeping political and economic reforms.
Bukavu, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (Reuters) - Congolese Nobel Peace Prize-winner Denis Mukwege on Friday dedicated his award to all women affected by rape and sexual violence.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya said on Friday it had arrested five Chinese nationals with security equipment who claimed to be setting up a security company but lacked the proper visas.
EKONA, Cameroon (Reuters) - A unit of Cameroon's special forces edged up the winding main road of what used to be a functioning village, past the rusted shell of a burnt-out lorry loaded with smashed beer bottles, past an abandoned church and a shuttered bar.
OSLO (Reuters) - Denis Mukwege, a gynecologist helping victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic State, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
KIGALI (Reuters) - A Rwandan court on Friday ordered the release on bail of a vocal critic of President Paul Kagame who was barred from running against him in an election last year.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene said on Friday he was wrong to visit the Gupta family - friends of former President Jacob Zuma - at their home and that he should have disclosed the details of the meetings earlier.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's main opposition party, which this weekend selects its candidate to challenge President Muhammadu Buhari in an election in February, is aiming to make his northwestern power base a main battleground in the contest.
JUBA/KINSHASA (Reuters) - The last remaining group of South Sudanese rebels who had been in exile in Democratic Republic of Congo have left to return home or third country destinations, a rebel spokesman and the United Nations said on Thursday.
HAWASSA, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Ethiopia's government is failing to protect its citizens amid escalating ethnic violence that has displaced nearly a million people in the last six months, the head of a national human rights body that reports to parliament said on Thursday.
PARIS (Reuters) - French forces carried out air strikes in northern Burkina Faso on Wednesday night after dozens of Islamist fighters attacked a police unit at a local gold mine, the latest incident to underscore rising insurgency in the region.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - As mining companies in Guinea ramp up bauxite production, they are upending rural communities and undermining air and water quality while government authorities fail to rein in abuses, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Thursday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - About 320 people were injured when a packed train travelling from South Africa's business hub Johannesburg to the capital Pretoria crashed into the back of a stationary train, Metrorail authorities said on Friday.
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