SANTIAGO, April 11 (Reuters) - South African miner Gold Fields Ltd will complete preparatory work in 2019 at its Salares Norte project in northern Chile and is eyeing potential output of around 345,000 ounces of gold a year at the site by the early 2020s, a company executive said.
WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia has scrapped a clause in its economic empowerment framework that would have forced white businesses to sell a 25 percent stake to previously disadvantaged blacks, President Hage Geingob said on Wednesday.
NEW DELHI, April 11 (Reuters) - Ghana will launch its first exploration licensing round in the last quarter of this year offering about six offshore blocks, deputy energy minister Mohamed Amin Adam said.
Port Louis (Reuters) - Mauritius has frozen bank accounts and suspended business licenses linked to Quantum Global Investment Management, a firm through which Angola's sovereign wealth fund invests much of its cash, according to a court document and a regulatory source.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somalia has disbanded a United Arab Emirates programme to train some of its troops in a fresh sign that a dispute in the Gulf involving Qatar is spilling into the volatile country in the Horn of Africa.
SOWETO, South Africa (Reuters) - Thousands of South Africans paid tribute on Wednesday to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at a memorial service in Soweto, the township at the forefront of the battle against apartheid and where she is revered for her role in the struggle.
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TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel is finalising a deal to deport thousands of African migrants to Uganda under a new scheme after agreements with Rwanda and the U.N.'s refugee agency to find homes for those expelled fell through.
ACCRA, April 11 (Reuters) - Ghana's economy expanded by 8.5 percent in 2017 - the fastest rate in five years - mainly on the back of increased oil and gas production, according to a provisional estimate announced by the statistics office on Wednesday.
AMBO, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Ethiopia's new prime minister pledged on Wednesday to address grievances in his native Oromiya region, centre of violent unrest that threatened the ruling coalition's hold on Africa's second most populous nation.
ACCRA, April 11 (Reuters) - Ghana's economy expanded by 8.5 percent last year, according to a provisional estimate announced from the West African nation's statistics office on Wednesday, up from 3.7 percent in 2016.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - More than 250 people including members of Western Sahara’s Polisario independence movement were killed when a military plane crashed in a field outside Algeria’s capital on Wednesday, officials said.
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ACCRA, April 11 (Reuters) - Ghana's annual consumer price inflation declined slightly to 10.4 percent in March from 10.6 percent the previous month, the statistics office said on Wednesday. The major commodity exporter is seeking to narrow inflation to 8 percent, plus or minus two percentage points by June under a $918 million credit programme with the International Monetary Fund which is in its final year. (Reporting by Kwasi Kpodo Editing by Joe Bavier)
ALGIERS (Reuters) - More than 100 people were killed when an Algerian military plane crashed into a field outside the capital on Wednesday, local media reported.
MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique will hold presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections on Oct. 15 next year, the presidency said on Wednesday, setting the date for a vote that will proceed the southern African country's emergence as a major gas exporter.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - At least 100 people were killed in a military plane crash in Algeria on Wednesday, local media said.
BANGUI (Reuters) - Hundreds of angry demonstrators on Wednesday laid the bodies of at least nine people killed in recent clashes in Central African Republic's capital Bangui in front of the headquarters of the United Nation's mission, a Reuters witness said.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - An Algerian military plane crashed on Wednesday near Boufarik airport near the capital Algiers, killing several people, local media and a witness said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump lifted a U.S. travel ban on citizens from Chad on Tuesday after a six-month U.S. government review found improvements in the African country's security standards, the White House said.
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