ACCRA, May 17 (Reuters) - Ghana is set to award nine new upstream oil blocks for commercial exploration off its western coast beginning this year, the energy ministry said on Thursday.
ACCRA, May 17 (Reuters) - Ghana's Cocobod appointed five lenders, including Amro Bank and Bank of China , to arrange its $1.3 bln syndicated loan to finance 2018/19 crop purchases, the regulator said on Thursday.
ACCRA, May 17 (Reuters) - Ghana accepted all 749.9 million cedis ($162.66 mln) worth of offers for a three-year local currency bond issued on Thursday and will pay a yield of 16.25 percent, transaction arrangers said.
* FITCH SAYS ASSIGNED GHANA'S $1 BILLION SENIOR UNSECURED NOTES DUE 16 MAY 2029 AND $1 BILLION SENIOR UNSECURED NOTES DUE 16 JUNE 2049 FINAL RATINGS OF 'B' Source text for Eikon:
ACCRA, May 17 (Reuters) - The Ghanaian Cedi and Zambian kwacha are forecast to extend losses against the dollar in the next week to Thursday, while Nigeria and other currencies are expected to hold steady, traders said.
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A Bosnian court said on Thursday it had rejected a request from Tunisia to hand over a Bosnian national wanted on terrorism charges over his alleged role in the 2016 killing of a Tunisian whom Palestinian group Hamas said was one of its members.
JUBA (Reuters) - The U.N. mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is sending 150 peacekeepers to Unity state to protect civilians who are being targeted in clashes between the government and rebel troops, the mission said on Thursday.
BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Burundians stood in long lines on Thursday to vote in a referendum that could let President Pierre Nkurunziza stay in power to 2034, deepening fears of political repression and ethnic conflict in the heart of Africa's Great Lakes.
----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- THURSDAY, MAY 17 ** SOFIA - French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Theresa May hold meeting on the sidelines of EU-Western Balkans summit in Sofia, Bulgaria – 0600 GMT. ** SOFIA - British Prime Minister Theresa May meets Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on the sidelines of
GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. World Health Organization will convene an Emergency Committee on Friday to consider the international risks of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said on Thursday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's military and police forces have killed 19 militants in an exchange of gunfire and arrested 20 suspects, in a continuing crackdown in Sinai, the military said in a statement on Thursday.
LAGOS, May 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Africa is sometimes better known for its vulnerability to climate change than its action on the problem – but a set of African cities intend to change that.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Tanzanian gemstone miner Tanzanite One has agreed to pay compensation and overdue taxes to the government after unspecified violations led to losses in public revenues, the president's office said.
GAROWE, Somalia (Reuters) - Dozens of people have been killed in clashes between troops of Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland and its semi-autonomous region of Puntland, medical workers and military officials from both sides said on Wednesday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday the move of the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem will cause "some instability" in the region, in his first public comments on the issue.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen killed the manager of a plant owned by Nigeria's Dangote Industries Limited in Ethiopia on Wednesday after he was attacked in the restive Oromiya region while returning to the capital from the factory, officials said.
KINSHASA/GENEVA (Reuters) - Congo's Ebola outbreak has entered "a new phase" after a case of the deadly virus was detected for the first time in the northwest city of Mbandaka, with a population of about 1 million people, the health minister said late on Wednesday.
NAIROBI, May 17 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Thursday. - - - - - GLOBAL MARKETS Asian shares held steady on Thursday, while the euro struggled near five-month lows set a day earlier following a report that Italian populist parties trying to form a coalition could ask the European Central Bank to forgive 250 billion euros of debt.
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