ABIDJAN, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Above average rainfall in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa growing regions last week is set to boost the October-to-March main crop, farmers said on Monday.
MOMBASA (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Kenya charged three Chinese men on Monday with trying to bribe detectives investigating fraud involving ticket sales on a $3.2 billion railway built by a Chinese company.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Al Shabaab gunmen and a suicide car bomber struck a religious centre in central Somalia on Monday, killing a cleric and at least 14 of his followers, a police officer said
ACCRA, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Ghana's central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 17 percent on Monday to cushion the West African economy against possible global pressures on emerging economies, governor Ernest Addison said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan on Monday filed a defamation complaint against radical leftist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leaders who have accused him and his daughter of corruption.
MORONI (Reuters) - A group of Comoros lawmakers have defeated a move which would have allowed President Azali Assoumani to bypass parliament before elections which he wants to contest despite violent opposition.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law the national minimum wage bill, his office said on Monday, part of efforts by the government to tackle wage inequality in Africa's most industrialised economy.
ACCRA, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Ghana's central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 17 percent on Monday to cushion the West African economy against possible global pressures on emerging economies, governor Ernest Addison said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has fined retailer Pepkor Holdings Ltd for breaching its listing requirements, it said on Monday.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - The death toll from a boat accident on Lake Victoria over the weekend rose to 33 on Monday, Ugandan police said, as survivors described moments of heavy drinking and raucous fun before the vessel, slammed by powerful waves, tilted and sank.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said on Sunday that a cruise boat which capsized on Lake Victoria a day earlier, killing at least 29 people, was carrying more than twice its capacity of 50.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Al Shabaab gunmen attacked a religious centre in central Somalia on Monday, killing a cleric and 10 of his followers, a spokesman for the militant Islamist group said.
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