* Traders expected rise in yields due to inflation, currency fall
(Adds naira) Ghana's cedi may weaken further and breach 2.80 to the dollar next week, while Kenya and Tanzania's currencies may come under pressure due to dollar demand from importers.
ACCRA, April 24 (Reuters) - Ghana accepted 207.14 million cedis ($74.5 million) worth of bids for a three-year bond and paid a yield of 25.48 percent in a slightly oversubscribed bond sale on Thursday, the central bank said.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A rebel group in eastern Libya controlling several oil ports said on Thursday it would not reopen the Ras Lanuf and Es Sider terminals unless the government implemented its part of a recent deal to end an oil blockade.
* IMF sees sub-Saharan Africa growth of 5.5 pct this year
Ghana's cedi may fall further and breach 2.80, while dollar demand from importers will put pressure on Kenya and Tanzania's currencies.
DAKAR (Reuters) - Former Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade will return to his West African nation on Friday for the first time since losing 2012 elections, two days later than planned due to problems with his flight, his Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) said.
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Malian authorities have changed the indictment against former military coup leader General Amadou Sanogo to a more serious charge of conspiracy to murder which carries the death penalty in the West African nation, his lawyer said Thursday.
JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked his army chief, a military spokesman said, replacing him with a loyalist from his own ethnic group as the country's four-month conflict shows signs of being increasingly fought along tribal lines.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns on Thursday promised Libya more U.S. help against extremist violence, saying the country could not achieve political or economic stability without tackling its security challenges.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Africa's biggest telecommunications operator, MTN Group, reported slower growth in subscriber numbers for the first quarter after it disconnected nearly a million unprofitable South African users, sending its shares lower on Thursday.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Security Council members are considering sanctions on South Sudan's warring parties, envoys said, after U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous demanded "serious consequences" be imposed to force an end to the violence.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Four people killed when a car bomb exploded outside a police station in a poor neighbourhood of the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia and China have blocked a proposal by the United States and France to impose U.N. sanctions on Central African Republic's former President Francois Bozize and two other people linked to the conflict there, diplomats told Reuters on Wednesday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Investment in infrastructure and natural resources will continue to underpin economic activity in sub-Saharan Africa, although capital outflows sparked by tighter global financial conditions pose a risk to growth, the IMF said on Thursday.
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