DAKAR, March 20 (Reuters) - Ghana has successfully completed a three-year programme with the International Monetary Fund, the international lender said on Wednesday after approving the disbursement of a final tranche of $185 million to the West African country.
LONDON, March 20 (Reuters) - Ghana aims to issue longer-dated hard currency bonds in its next bond sale, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said on Wednesday, adding that he expected the cedi currency to strengthen in the months to come.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali soldiers have vacated at least three of their bases in protest over months of missed pay, a military officer and residents said on Wednesday, in what could be a boost for Islamist al Shabaab insurgents.
MAPUTO/HARARE (Reuters) - Aid workers scrambled to save hundreds trapped by floods around the Mozambican port city of Beira on Wednesday, after a powerful cyclone killed hundreds of people and left a trail of destruction across swathes of southeast Africa.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will hand over power to a democratically elected successor after a new constitution is approved and a national conference is held, Deputy Prime Minister Ramtane Lamamra said on Wednesday.
ADDIS ABABA/JAKARTA (Reuters) - The world's biggest planemaker Boeing faced growing obstacles on Wednesday to returning its grounded 737 MAX fleet to the skies, while details emerged of an Indonesian crash with potential similarities to the Ethiopian disaster.
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's president called on Wednesday for changes to the new constitution to give the presidency more power, in the latest escalation of a dispute between the two highest offices in the country.
MAPUTO/HARARE (Reuters) - Mozambique started three days of national mourning on Wednesday after a powerful cyclone and flooding killed hundreds of people and left a trail of destruction across swathes of southeast Africa.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The dreams of the two young men soared as high as the Ethiopian Airlines planes they proudly flew.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's army chief declared that the public has expressed "noble aims" during weeks of demonstrations against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, his strongest signal yet that the military is distancing itself from the long-serving ruler.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - An air strike near the Somali town of Afgoye killed four people, a relative of one of the victims said on Tuesday.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean farmers are expected to sell up to 240 million kg of tobacco this year, a 5 percent dip from 2018 due to drought, an industry official said on Wednesday at the start of the selling season that could help ease a severe dollar shortage.
MAPUTO/HARARE (Reuters) - Mozambique started three days of national mourning on Wednesday after powerful cyclone winds and flooding killed hundreds of people and left a massive trail of destruction across swathes of southeast Africa.
PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa's foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows rose to a five-year high of 70.7 billion rand ($4.9 billion) in 2018 from 26.8 billion rand the prior year, the central bank said on Wednesday, despite outflows in the final quarter of last year.
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian special forces killed three suspected Islamic State militants on Tuesday after clashes in mountains near the Algerian border, a security official told Reuters.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police have seized $20 million of counterfeit banknotes that had been stored in a personal safety deposit box at a branch of Barclays Bank Kenya, the directorate of criminal investigations said.
ADDIS ABABA/PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Europe and Canada said they would seek their own guarantees over the safety of Boeing's 737 MAX, further complicating plans to get the aircraft flying worldwide after they were grounded in the wake of two accidents killing more than 300 people.
MAPUTO/HARARE (Reuters) - The number of people killed in a powerful cyclone and flooding in Mozambique has risen above 200, more than doubling the country's death toll from a storm that could rank as one of the worst weather-related disasters in the southern hemisphere.
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