ACCRA, March 9 (Reuters) - The Bank of Ghana said the yield on its weekly 91-day bill dipped to 13.34 percent at an auction on Friday, from 13.37 percent at the last sale on March 2.

JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan has suspended the operations of Radio Miraya, which is owned by the U.N. Mission in the country, for failing to comply with media laws, the media regulator said on Friday.

PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim will step down next week, the prime minister said on Friday, after she was accused of using a credit card issued by an international non-governmental organisation to buy clothes and jewellery.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's health ministry is missing 11 billion shillings ($109 million), according to the auditor general, a disclosure that will increase disquiet among international donors who spend hundreds of millions on development programmes.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga promised on Friday to unite the country after elections last year in which around 100 people were killed mainly in clashes between opposition supporters and security forces.

ABIDJAN, March 9 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) will suspend programmes for the 2018-19 season that boost cocoa output, it said on Friday, aiming to reduce production in the face of global oversupply.

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GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 2 million children in the Democratic Republic of Congo are estimated to be at risk of dying from severe acute malnutrition if they do not get the aid they need, the United Nations warned on Friday.

DAKAR/NAIROBI (Reuters) - When election officials unveiled voting machines that resemble large tablet computers in Democratic Republic of Congo, they hailed them as the solution to a multitude of problems.

DJIBOUTI (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump made the decision to hold talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un himself, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Friday, but the talks will take "some weeks" to arrange.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Militia fighters attacked, kidnapped and raped en masse a large group of women in an isolated area of Central African Republic last month, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday.

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 and the safe-haven yen eased on Friday after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered to stop nuclear and missile testing and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to a meeting that could come before May. WORLD OIL PRICES Crude oil futures rose on Friday as Asi