ACCRA, May 11 (Reuters) - The Bank of Ghana said the yield on its weekly 91-day bill rose to 13.37 percent at an auction on Friday, compared with 13.32 percent at the last sale on May 4.
HARARE (Reuters) - President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Friday that pensions and allowances for veterans of Zimbabwe's independence war would be increased, days after his government announced a 10 percent hike in salaries for all public sector workers.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Friday it hopes to deploy an experimental Ebola vaccine to tackle an outbreak in a remote area of Congo to prevent it spreading, particularly to the provincial capital of 1 million people.
----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- FRIDAY, MAY 11 ** WASHINTON D.C. - South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha will meet U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. ** BUDAPEST - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Columbian President Juan Manuel Santos give a statement - 0700 GMT. ** SOUNIO, Greece - Foreign ministers from Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia and Romani
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A dam on a Kenyan commercial farm that burst this week, killing at least 44 people, did not have the required permits, the Water Resources Management Authority, which regulates private dams, said on Friday.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - The main hospital in Democratic Republic of Congo's northwestern town of Bikoro has received a new suspected Ebola case, the hospital's director told Reuters on Friday.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization is preparing for the worst case scenario in an Ebola outbreak in a remote area of Congo, including spread to a major town, WHO Deputy Director-General of Emergency Preparedness and Response Peter Salama said on Friday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's elite police unit has taken over the investigation of a mosque attack near Durban which killed one person because "extremism" is suspected as a possible motive, an official said on Friday.
CANNES, France (Reuters) - "Rafiki", a girl-meets-girl romance screening at Cannes, is a movie Western viewers would find "quaint", according to one critic. But it will not be shown in Kenya, where it has been banned.
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A 19-year-old girl in Sudan was sentenced to death by a court on Thursday for murdering her husband after he tried to rape her, said campaigners, calling on the president to pardon her as she was forced into a child marriage, and had acted in self-defence.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's chief prosecutor on Friday ordered police to investigate a dam-burst on a commercial farm in the Rift Valley that killed dozens of people as a wall of water tore down a hillside, obliterating everything in its path.
LISBON (Reuters) - A Portuguese court on Thursday ruled that former Angolan Vice President Manuel Vicente, accused by Portuguese prosecutors of corruption and money laundering, can be tried in Angola, which Portugal hopes will remove a major thorn in the bilateral ties.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A series of individual and organizational failures, including a lack of training and situational awareness, contributed to a deadly ambush in Niger last year that killed four U.S. soldiers, a partial Pentagon report released on Thursday said.
LONDON (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea is in talks to sell liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply from its Punta Europa project to independent and state-backed oil companies and traders from 2020 as it winds down an exclusive deal with Royal Dutch Shell.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo announced on Thursday the first confirmed death in a new outbreak of Ebola virus and said 11 other people were now confirmed to be infected, including three medical staff.
BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia is selling several planes and a fleet of luxury cars bought by former president Yahya Jammeh as it seeks to reduce a mountain of crippling debt contracted during the authoritarian leader's decades-long rule.
The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Friday. - - - - - GLOBAL MARKETS Asian shares rallied on Friday as risk appetite got a boost from soft U.S. inflation, helping alleviate worries of faster rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, while investors also cheered U.S.-North Korean steps to further ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula. WORLD OIL PRICES O
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