The South African rand weakened on Friday as the dollar jumped higher after hawkish comments by a Fed official on the U.S. central bank's future interest rate trajectory. KENYA MARKETS
The Kenyan shilling weakened against the dollar on Friday as fuel retail companies' appetite outstripped foreign currency inflows, traders said. SUDAN SECURITY
Sudan's army appeared to gain the upper hand on Sunday in a
bloody power struggle with rival paramilitary forces,
pounding their bases with air strikes, said witnesses. NIGERIA INFLATION
Nigeria's annual inflation accelerated to 22.04% in March
from 21.91% in the previous month, its bureau of statistics
said on Saturday. BURKINA FASO SECURITY
Unidentified assailants killed 40 people and wounded 33
others in an attack on the army and volunteer defence forces
in northern Burkina Faso, the government said in a statement
on Sunday. ZAMBIA DEBT
Zambia last week gave its bondholders a "concrete proposal"
for the restructuring of some $3 billion in eurobonds, the
ministry of finance and national planning said on Friday. KENYA VIOLENCE
Kenya's opposition alliance has written to the prosecutor of
the International Criminal Court (ICC) asking him to open an
investigation into the head of the police who it accuses of
ordering attacks on its supporters during anti-government
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