TEMA, Ghana, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Ghana's cash-strapped Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) is seeking at least $300 million to repay debt and to buy beans upfront to feed the 64,500-tonne plant, its managing director told Reuters on Thursday.
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Police arrested a Zambian opposition leader on Thursday and said he would be charged with defaming President Edgar Lungu, an offence that carries a maximum five-year prison term.
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced 50 policemen to three years in prison on Thursday for organising a strike against their working conditions in January, Egypt's official news agency MENA reported.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Passengers jostled with ticket touts and hawkers at Kenya's main bus stations on Thursday as thousands started leaving cities before next week's vote, some because they are registered in rural wards, others because they are scared of violence.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius, the South African Paralympic gold medallist serving a six-year jail term for murdering his girlfriend, was taken to hospital on Thursday, a prison service spokesman said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration gave $169 million to feed people starving in Ethiopia and Kenya, USAID said on Thursday, adding to earlier assistance for those suffering from drought and conflict in four other nations.
LUSAKA, Aug 3 (Reuters) - The Zambian kwacha is expected to firm next week on increasing hard currency inflows, while the Kenyan shilling is likely to remain steady as the central bank intervenes to smooth out price volatility.
PRETORIA (Reuters) - A South African tourist who was kidnapped in 2011 by al Qaeda while travelling in Mali has been released and is back home, foreign minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said on Thursday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The woman who will decide whether to allow a secret ballot that could oust South African President Jacob Zuma was quoted on Thursday saying she would "do the right thing".
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Al Shabaab militants attacked a remote police outpost in northern Kenya on Thursday and killed an officer days before national elections, police said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African Stephen McGowan, who was kidnapped by al Qaeda from the Mali tourist town of Timbuktu in 2011, has been released and is back home, foreign minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said on Thursday.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Six months after a botched military strike rocked their refuge, tens of thousands of Nigerians who thronged the camp to escape Boko Haram are now struggling to survive, aid agencies said on Wednesday.
CONAKRY (Reuters) - Several thousand opponents of Guinea's President Alpha Conde protested in the capital Conakry on Wednesday against election delays and insecurity, as political tensions escalate.
KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda's Frank Habineza, the only registered opposition leader competing against President Paul Kagame in Friday's elections, pledged on Wednesday to retry political prisoners if he's elected.
ZURICH (Reuters) - Former Gambian interior minister Ousman Sonko will remain in a Swiss jail for another three months after the country's attorney general (AG) broadened an investigation into whether he committed crimes against humanity.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Gunmen ambushed a convoy of buses travelling on a major highway in South Sudan on Wednesday, killing at least four passengers and wounding 10 others, police said.
LAGOS (Reuters) - A Boko Haram faction with ties to Islamic State and responsible for the kidnapping of a Nigerian oil prospecting team which led to at least 37 people being killed has become a deadly force capable of carrying out highly-organised attacks.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The new railway linking Nairobi to the port of Mombasa was supposed to be the crowning achievement of an infrastructure bonanza propelling President Uhuru Kenyatta to victory in Kenya's Aug. 8 polls.
SUSWA, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya opposition leader Raila Odinga said the ruling party cannot win next week's national elections unless it rigs the result.
NAIROBI, Aug 3 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Thursday. - - - - - EVENTS: GLOBAL MARKETS Asian shares slid on Thursday, led by falls in South Korean tech shares, as investors locked in recent gains after Wall Street's Dow Jones Industrial Average broke the 22,000 barrier for the first time in its 121-year history. GLO
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