* Asanko Gold acquires large, highly prospective Miradani Gold Project, adjacent to Asanko Gold Mine
ACCRA, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The Bank of Ghana said the yield on its weekly 91-day bill inched up to 13.24 percent at an auction on Friday, from 13.13 percent at the last such sale on Sept. 15. The bank said it had accepted 535.47 million cedis ($121.28 million) worth of bids out of the 550.82 million cedis tendered for the paper, which will be issued on Monday.
ACCRA, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Ghana sold 892.82 million cedis ($202.2 mln) of fresh 3-year domestic bonds on Friday at a yield of 18.25 percent, joint lead arranger Barclays Bank Ghana said in a statement.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's main opposition said on Friday it would review all contracts with KPMG in the municipalities it runs after a scandal involving the auditor's handling of audits for businessman friends of President Jacob Zuma.
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia fears a looming humanitarian crisis after more than 6,000 refugees fleeing turmoil in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) entered its territory in one month, the presidency said on Friday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya will not face a constitutional or political crisis even if a planned re-run of its presidential election is delayed beyond the end of October, the attorney general said on Friday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress should discipline President Jacob Zuma for bringing the party into disrepute, housing minister and presidential hopeful Lindiwe Sisulu said on Friday.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Nigeria's efforts to cut sulphur levels in its fuel imports are unlikely to succeed this year, the head of a major Nigerian downstream company told the Platts refining conference in Brussels.
BRUSSELS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Nigeria's efforts to cut sulphur levels in its fuel imports are unlikely to succeed this year, the head of a major Nigerian downstream company told the Platts refining conference in Brussels.
CONAKRY (Reuters) - Hundreds of rioters in the Guinean bauxite mining town of Boke burned down a police and a gendarmerie building on Thursday and clashed with security forces wielding batons, leaving 17 people injured, the local Red Cross said.
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Rival Tuareg groups said on Thursday they had signed a peace deal in northern Mali, raising hopes of an end to years of fighting and broken ceasefires.
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - An improvised bomb wounded three policemen in the main city of Cameroon's minority English-speaking region on Thursday, the regional governor said, in an attack a senior security source blamed on separatist militants.
NAIROBI, Sept 22 (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 stocks fell and the Japanese yen and Swiss franc gained on the mooted possibility of North Korea conducting another hydrogen bomb test, this time in the Pacific Ocean. WORLD OIL PRICES Oil prices were mixed in early Asian trade on Friday as t
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