July 4 (Reuters) - Red and yellow cards at the World Cup after Friday's matches. 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 Italy - 1 8-Wilson P

ACCRA, July 4 (Reuters) - The Bank of Ghana said the yield on its 91-day bill rose to a fresh three-year high of 24.1023 percent at Friday's auction, from 24.0892 percent at the last sale.

BAMAKO, July 4 (Reuters) - Current gold reserves held by mining companies operating in Mali stand at 609.1 tonnes, down from 651.68 tonnes at the end of last year, figures from Mali's ministry of mines showed on Friday.

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian soldiers blocked roads, fired shots into the air and burned several buses in Lagos on Friday after a soldier was killed in a bus accident, an episode residents said recalled the country's former military dictatorship.

BAMAKO, July 4 (Reuters) - Current gold reserves held by mining companies operating in Mali stand at 609.1 tonnes, down from 651.68 tonnes the previous year, figures from Mali's ministry of mines showed on Friday.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Religious leaders in Kenya have urged calm ahead of an opposition rally next week that threatens to stoke tension in a nation scarred by political violence in the recent past.

HAMBURG, July 4 (Reuters) - A rise in cocoa futures to around three-year highs this week has reduced industry purchasing in Europe's cash cocoa market, traders said on Friday.

LUANDA/KINSHASA (Reuters) - African nations have agreed to suspend military operations for six months against Rwandan rebels in Congo to give them more time to lay down their arms, regional government officials said.

CAIRO/LONDON (Reuters) - In the northwest corner of the Nile Delta, Ibrahim Sharaf Al-Dein fires up his diesel-powered pump next to a murky canal only to watch it spew out a yellowish froth.

ACCRA (Reuters) - West African countries and international health organizations adopted a fresh strategy on Thursday to fight the world's deadliest Ebola epidemic, which has killed hundreds of people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

NAIROBI, July 4 (Reuters) - 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 rose to a three-year peak on Friday and the dollar held near its overnight highs after U.S. jobs data which showed the lowest unemployment rate in six years and underscored the strength of the economic recovery. WORLD OIL PRICES Brent futures held st

LONDON/ACCRA, July 4 (Reuters) - Tucked in a corner of a Guinness brewery in a run-down part of Ghana's capital, flanked by industrial silos and crates of bottles, stands the Cube, a gleaming mini-factory that may point the way forward for global consumer goods companies in Africa.