HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe published exchange control rules on Thursday empowering police to arrest unlicensed foreign currency traders and those found guilty would face up to ten years in prison, Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa said.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations Human Rights Council agreed on Thursday to an African resolution to send a team of three experts to work with Burundi government in pursuing perpetrators of "deplorable crimes".

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Seven people were killed when a car bomb exploded near a bus stop in a district of Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Thursday, police said.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe gazetted exchange control rules on Thursday empowering police to arrest unlicensed foreign currency traders, with those found guilty facing up to ten years in prison, Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa said.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded near a bus stop in a district of Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Thursday, causing an unknown number of casualties, police said.

LUSAKA, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Zambia's kwacha is expected to remain under pressure next week on increased dollar demand while the Ugandan shilling should firm on the back of inflows and reduced local currency liquidity.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Thursday accused unnamed officials of his own party of trying to push him into retiring and likened them to the biblical betrayer Judas.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's ruling Jubilee Party on Thursday presented parliament with proposals intended to prevent the Supreme Court annulling the results of a coming re-run presidential election, as it did the last vote in August.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A 163.41-carat flawless white diamond found last year in Angola will go to auction in Geneva on Nov. 14, global auction house Christie's said on Thursday.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Karoo basin probably has a 30th of the shale gas deposits that some estimates had suggested, deflating expectations of an energy bonanza, a study published on Thursday said.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Naval boats battled rebels on Lake Tanganyika in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday as heavy fighting spread close to the lakeside city of Uvira, sources in the area said.

LUANDA (Reuters) - The veteran leader of Angola's largest opposition party said on Wednesday he would step down to allow someone else keep the new government of President Joao Lourenco to account.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has asked his lawyers to prosecute six employees of telecoms operator Safaricom for conspiring with election board officials to rig the nullified Aug. 8 presidential poll.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Nearly half of the estimated 56 million abortions performed worldwide every year are unsafe and women in poor countries face even higher risks due to U.S. funding cuts to family planning programmes abroad, health experts said on Thursday.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Rebels in eastern Congo advanced to the outskirts of the city of Uvira near the Burundi border on Wednesday, residents said, sowing panic and confining thousands of civilians to their homes.

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, head of a group of five countries in Africa's Sahel region, has asked the United States to remove a travel ban on Chadian nationals, saying that a failure to do so could affect Chad's security commitments.

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian authorities sent an emissary of an independence movement in the Western Sahara on a flight back to Spain after she spent two weeks in the Lima airport and refused to leave, the national migration authority said on Wednesday night.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government said on Wednesday it would crack down on social media users it accused of spreading false rumours of shortages and causing panic buying of fuel and other goods.

SINGAPORE, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Eni plans to expand its Singapore trading desk to market liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies from new projects such as Mozambique to buyers in Asia, senior executives from the Italian oil and gas company's trading arm said.

NAIROBI, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Thursday. - - - - - EVENTS: *KENYA - The central bank to auction 91-day, 182-day and 364-day Treasury bills worth a total 24 billion shillings. GLOBAL MARKETS The dollar and U.S. bond yields rose on Thursday after President Donald Trump proposed the biggest U.S. tax overhaul in three decades and as stro