July 9 (Reuters) - Red and yellow cards at the World Cup after Wednesday's semi-final match between Netherlands and Argentina. Player Team Yellow Red 16-Steven Defour Belgium - 1 16-Maximiliano Pereira Uruguay - 1 3-Pepe Portugal - 1 6-Alexandre Song Cameroon - 1 16-Ante Rebic Croatia - 1 8-Claudio Marchisio
JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's president on Wednesday called on rebels to resume peace talks as the country marked its third birthday with celebrations overshadowed by fighting that has killed thousands and brought it to the verge of famine.
ACCRA, July 9 (Reuters) - Ghana's inflation is likely to return to its target range for the end of 2014 of 9.5 percent plus or minus 2 percent by the fourth quarter, central bank governor Henry Kofi Wampah told a news conference on Wednesday.
BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - A rights activist campaigning against constitutional change critics say will upset Burundi's ethnic balance and entrench President Pierre Nkurunziza in power has failed in his plea for bail, a defence lawyer said on Wednesday.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Yemeni authorities have handed over to Ethiopia an opposition official who had been sentenced to death in absentia on charges of plotting to overthrow the Addis Ababa government, state media reported on Wednesday.
ACCRA, July 9 (Reuters) - The Bank of Ghana raised its prime interest rate by 100 basis points to 19.0 percent on Wednesday, citing risks to the West African nation's fiscal outlook.
ACCRA, July 9 (Reuters) - The Bank of Ghana raised its prime interest rate by 100 basis points to 19.0 percent on Wednesday, citing risks to the West African nation's fiscal outlook.
ACCRA, July 9 (Reuters) - Ghana's annual consumer price inflation rose to a four-year high of 15.0 percent in June from 14.8 percent in May, the West African nation's statistics office said on Wednesday.
ACCRA, July 9 (Reuters) - Ghana's annual consumer price inflation rose to a four-year high of 15.0 percent in June from 14.8 percent in May, the West African nation's statistics office said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Leaders of the BRICS nations will launch their long-awaited development bank at a summit next week and decide whether the headquarters should be in Shanghai or New Delhi, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Wednesday.
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy is in talks with other European Union states about sharing the burden of rescuing migrants crossing the Mediterranean in crowded boats from North Africa, senior officials meeting in Milan said on Tuesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police arrested a Chinese national and three Mozambicans on Tuesday in a raid on an illegal abalone-drying facility that yielded nearly five tonnes of the gourmet mollusc known as "white gold" in Asia.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Islamist militant group Boko Haram is blamed for at least 18 attacks on civilians in northern Nigeria in the past two weeks and the escalating violence of the insurgency threatens the security of West Africa, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.
PARIS (Reuters) - Mali government officials will meet northern Tuareg separatist rebels in Algiers on July 16, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday, indicating progress in their stalled peace talks.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - More than 80 commuters were injured when two trains collided in the South African city of Durban on Tuesday, but no deaths were recorded, a spokesman from the national rail authority said.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist militants attacked Somalia's presidential compound on Tuesday with a car bomb and gunmen broke through a perimeter wall but were repulsed by security forces, and the president was not there at the time, the interior ministry said.
NAIROBI, July 9 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Wednesday. - - - - - EVENTS KENYA - Central Bank of Kenya auctions 182-day Treasury bills and 364-day bills . BOTSWANA - Botswana issues first quarter GDP figures . MOZAMBIQUE - Statistics office releases monthly consumer inflation data . GHANA - Ghana Statistical
July 8 (Reuters) - Germany striker Miroslav Klose became the World Cup's all-time record scorer with his 16th goal during their semi-final against Brazil on Tuesday, eclipsing former Brazil striker Ronaldo in the record books with his 23rd minute strike.
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