LAGOS (Reuters) - A blast on Tuesday rocked a pipeline operated by Nigeria's state-run oil firm that feeds the Forcados terminal in the southern Niger Delta energy hub, a spokesman for Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) said.

LONDON (Reuters) - Merchant vessels sailing through busy shipping lanes between Somalia and Yemen may be underestimating the risk of piracy and terrorism following two attempted attacks last month, maritime officials say.

LONDON (Reuters) - A group of Mozambique bond holders formed a creditors committee on Tuesday before an expected default, but they warned they would not begin restructuring talks with the government until it provided better information about its finances.

Nov 8 (Reuters) - Japanese food and ingredients maker Ajinomoto has agreed to buy 33 percent of Africa's Promasidor for $532 million, the latest step on its march toward becoming a top-10 global food company.

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Heavily armed gunmen riding motor bikes and other vehicles raided a village and killed five soldiers in Niger near the border with Mali early on Tuesday, the interior ministry said, amid signs of a growing Islamist insurgency in the region.

EDO, Nigeria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sitting on the floor surrounded by vials, animal bones and sheets stained crimson with blood, spiritual doctor Olor Elemian described how he scares girls into blind obedience with potions and spells known as "juju".

GADO-BADZERE, Cameroon (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Alone, hungry and traumatised having watched her parents die in war-torn Central African Republic, 14-year-old Koulsoumi believed the worst was behind her when she was taken in by a family in Cameroon after fleeing across the border last year.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A no-confidence motion against South Africa's President Jacob Zuma due for a vote in parliament on Thursday "has no chance of succeeding", the African National Congress' (ANC) Secretary General Gwede Mantashe said on Tuesday.

KINSHASA (Reuters) - An explosion killed a child and injured 32 Indian peacekeepers in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma on Tuesday morning, the U.N. mission in Congo said.

MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) - Almost 200 nations began work on Monday to turn promises for fighting climate change into action at a U.N. conference that played down threats to a 2015 global agreement if Republican Donald Trump wins the U.S. presidency.

NAIROBI, Nov 8 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Tuesday. - - - - - EVENTS: * GHANA - Pricing of maiden 10-year domestic debt. * TANZANIA - Statistics bureau releases inflation figures. * SOUTH AFRICA - Treasury auctions 2.35 billion rand worth of 2035, 2037 and 2041 bonds. GLOBAL MARKETS Most Asian stock markets rose on Tuesday ahead of the U.S. presi

LISBON, Nov 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost a third fewer women than men in the world's poorest countries are connected to the internet and the gap is set to widen, limiting access to life-changing opportunities, an anti-poverty group said on Tuesday.