The South African rand fell on Monday as the dollar gained on global markets, while stocks were down at the day's close. KENYA MARKETS
The Kenyan shilling weakened slightly on Monday on demand for dollars from energy importers and foreign-owned firms looking to pay dividends to overseas shareholders, traders said. SUDAN SECURITY
Sudan's battling factions both claimed to have made gains on
Monday as violence cut power and water in the capital, and
the U.N. envoy to Sudan said the two sides showed no signs
of being willing to negotiate. NIGERIA AVIATION
Domestic flights in Nigeria were being disrupted on Monday,
local airlines said, as aviation employees in Lagos blocked
roads to the country's busiest local airport to begin a
two-day strike in protest over working conditions and wages. TANZANIA MINING
Tanzania on Monday signed agreements worth $667 million with
three Australian companies to mine rare earth minerals and
graphite, part of the president's drive to fast-track
negotiations on long-pending mining and energy projects. IVORY COAST COCOA
Below-average rains last week in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa
growing regions raised fears of tight supply and poor
quality for the April-to-September mid-crop, farmers said on
Monday. UGANDA GROWTH
Uganda's economy grew 6.8% in the first six months of the
2022/23 fiscal year that runs until the end of June, up from
3.7% in the same period of the previous fiscal year, the
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