South Africa's rand weakened on Friday after President Cyril Ramaphosa's declaration of a "state of disaster" to tackle crippling power shortages in the country failed to elicit investor confidence.
KENYA MARKETS
Kenya's shilling was steady on Friday but traders said they expected it to weaken, undermined by increased demand for dollars from the manufacturing sector and oil retailing companies.
ZAMBIA DEBT
Zambia's finance minister has rejected a call by China for the World Bank and other multilateral lenders to join a restructuring of the country's debt, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
NIGER SECURITY
At least 10 Nigerien soldiers were killed in an ambush, and more than a dozen others were injured by armed assailants near the West African Sahel nation's border with neighbouring Mali, Niger's defence minister said in a statement on Saturday.
SOMALIA VIOLENCE
At least nine people were killed and another 14 wounded on Saturday in a sixth day of fighting in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region, a local government official and medic said, hours after Somaliland called for an unconditional ceasefire.
NIGERIA ELECTION
Nigerian presidential contender Peter Obi of the opposition Labour Party said his supporters were on Saturday attacked and injured ahead of a rally in the commercial capital Lagos, a stronghold of the ruling party.
CAMEROON SECURITY
At least five banana plantation workers were killed and several wounded on Friday in Cameroon’s Southwest, a region riven by separatist violence, a union leader said.
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