JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Tests at an RCL Foods processed-food factory found no traces of a strain of listeria that has killed almost 200 people, but they did find evidence of other strains that could also cause the disease, the South African Ministry of Health said on Wednesday.
ACCRA, March 28 (Reuters) - Ghana's producer price inflation (PPI) fell to 5.5 percent year-on-year in February from 7.7 percent the previous month, due mostly to lower refined petroleum costs, the statistics office said on Wednesday. The cocoa, oil and gold exporter is in its final year of a $918 million credit programme with the International Monetary Fund that aims to narrow consumer inflation to 8 percent, plus or minus 2 percentage points, this year. "The index was driven mainly by the cost
ACCRA, March 28 (Reuters) - Ghana's producer price inflation (PPI) fell to 5.5 percent year-on-year in February from 7.7 percent the previous month, due mostly to lower refined petroleum costs, the statistics office said on Wednesday. The cocoa, oil and gold exporter is in its final year of a $918 million credit programme with the International Monetary Fund that aims to narrow consumer inflation to 8 percent, plus or minus 2 percentage points, this year. "The index was driven mainly by the cost
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Islamist rebels are suspected of killing at least 11 civilians in an attack in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said on Wednesday, adding to some 1,000 civilians who have been killed there in similar attacks since 2014.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African court jailed a white woman on Wednesday for yelling racist abuse at a black policeman, in a case that laid bare attitudes that endure more than two decades after the end of apartheid.
ACCRA, March 28 (Reuters) - Ghana's producer price inflation (PPI) fell to 5.5 percent year-on-year in February from 7.7 percent the previous month, the statistics office said on Wednesday. The cocoa, oil and gold exporter is in its final year of a $918 million credit programme with the International Monetary Fund that aims to narrow consumer inflation to 8 percent, plus or minus 2 percentage points, this year. (Reporting by Kwasi Kpodo Editing by Joe Bavier)
ACCRA, March 28 (Reuters) - Ghana's producer price inflation (PPI) fell to 5.5 percent year-on-year in February from 7.7 percent the previous month, the statistics office said on Wednesday. The cocoa, oil and gold exporter is in its final year of a $918 million credit programme with the International Monetary Fund that aims to narrow consumer inflation to 8 percent, plus or minus 2 percentage points, this year. (Reporting by Kwasi Kpodo Editing by Joe Bavier)
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania has charged six opposition leaders with sedition and incitement to violence, a move branded by critics of the government as an effort to silence dissent. Freeman Mbowe, chairman of the main opposition CHADEMA party, was charged with five other senior party leaders at a court in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday, court documents showed.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's ruling coalition voted in Abiye Ahmed as new prime minister on Tuesday following the resignation of Hailemariam Desalegn last month, the state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation said.
ACCRA (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Ghana's capital Accra on Wednesday against the expansion of its defence cooperation with the United States, in a rare public display of opposition to the growing foreign military presence in West Africa.
ACCRA, March 28 (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Ghana's capital Accra on Wednesday against the expansion of its defence cooperation with the United States, in a rare public display of opposition to the growing foreign military presence in West Africa.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police kept an opposition politician in custody on Wednesday in apparent defiance of a judge's order to bring him to court ahead of a possible release from detention, the politician's lawyer said.
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad's president would be allowed to stay on until 2033 and be granted greater powers under constitutional changes recommended by a national conference that the opposition said aimed to create a "monarchy".
----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ---------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 ** BRUSSELS - European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini meets Finnish President Sauli Niinisto – 1100 GMT. ** BAKU - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will visit Azerbaijan (to March 29).
ROME (Reuters) - Italian anti-terrorism police said on Wednesday they had arrested an Italian citizen of Moroccan origin on suspicion of supporting Islamic State and were investigating his accomplices.
LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell has filed a criminal complaint with Dutch authorities against a former employee over the sale of a Nigerian onshore oilfield in 2011, a Shell spokesman said on Wednesday.
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's parliament has delayed a debate due on Wednesday on a motion seeking to impeach President Edgar Lungu over accusations of breaching the constitution, according to a letter from the parliamentary clerk seen by Reuters.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's ruling coalition voted in Abiye Ahmed as new prime minister on Tuesday following the resignation of Hailemariam Desalegn last month, the state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation said.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's ruling coalition voted in Abiye Ahmed as new prime minister on Tuesday following the resignation of Hailemariam Desalegn last month, the state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation said.
NAIROBI, March 28 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Wednesday. - - - - - GLOBAL MARKETS Asian shares fell on Wednesday after Wall Street was knocked hard by concerns about tighter controls on the tech industry, denting a brief global equities recovery driven by hopes that the risk of a U.S.-China trade war was easing.
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