Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Friday said this week's coup in neighbouring Guinea-Bissau was a sham and demanded its disrupted election to be allowed to continue, adding to a chorus of regional anger over the latest power grab.
Donald Trump said South Africa will not be invited to take part in next year's G20 summit in Florida after Washington boycotted the leaders' summit in Johannesburg last week, which the African nation called a "punitive" measure against it.
Global stocks headed into a jittery final session of the month on Friday, as an outage at exchange operator CME Group hampered trading in a swathe of futures on currencies, commodities, Treasuries and stocks, further draining market liquidity.
The U.S. dollar was heading for its worst weekly performance since late July on Friday as investors increasingly count on further monetary easing in December by the Federal Reserve, while Thursday's U.S. holiday thinned liquidity.
Brent crude oil futures were largely unchanged on Friday while drawn-out Russia-Ukraine peace talks kept geopolitical risks elevated and traders kept one eye on the outcome of an OPEC+ meeting on Sunday for clues about potential output changes.
London's High Court lifted an injunction on Thursday preventing the sale of a South Sudanese crude oil cargo due to load in the coming days, after the claimant, commodities trader BB Energy, decided not to ask for the injunction to be continued.
Small-scale farmers in Kenya sang and celebrated on Thursday after a court ruling secured their right to carry on the traditional practice of sharing local seeds.
Zimbabwe will hike royalties on gold producers as it moves to take advantage of recent record high bullion prices, a 2026 national budget speech showed on Thursday.
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) signed a financing package worth $275 million to help Mauritania upgrade its main railway corridor.
