MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi was sworn in on Wednesday at a ceremony attended by cheering supporters and dignitaries, but boycotted by opposition politicians who dispute his October election win as fraudulent.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Sudan has reopened its airspace, the head of the sovereign council said on Wednesday, while the army said two soldiers were killed and four injured in quelling a revolt by former security agents linked to toppled ruler Omar al-Bashir.

(Reuters) - A rapid rise in the price of gold since 2000 has driven millions of people to deposits in Africa, South America and elsewhere where they dig for gold using basic technology.

ABIDJAN, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Ghana's Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC) has sold 280,000 tonnes of cocoa for the 2020/21 season by Jan. 7, with prices that include a new $400 per tonne living income differential (LID), sources at CMC and the cocoa regulator said on Wednesday.

ENTEBBE (Reuters) - In a refinery just outside Uganda's main airport, workers slip bars of freshly refined gold into clear plastic bags sealed with a sticker of the national flag - black, yellow and red - and the label "Ugandan's Treasure."

ABIDJAN, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) has sold nearly 720,000 tonnes of cocoa export contracts by Jan. 3 for the 2020/21 season, with prices that include a new $400 per tonne living income differential (LID), the cocoa regulator said on Wednesday.

ENTEBBE, Jan 15 (Reuters) - In a refinery just outside Uganda's main airport, workers slip bars of freshly refined gold into clear plastic bags sealed with a sticker of the national flag - black, yellow and red - and the label "Ugandan's Treasure."

ABIDJAN, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast cocoa grinders processed 143,000 tonnes of beans by the end of December, up from 137,000 tonnes the previous season, data from exporters' association GEPEX showed on Wednesday. * Grinders processed 47,000 tonnes of beans in December, up from 46,000 tonnes in the same period the previous year. * Ivory Coast's 2018/19 season Q1 (October to December) grind reached 143,000 tonnes, up from 137,000 tonnes a year before. * The GEPEX data only covers six of the la

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's electoral board said on Wednesday it expects to hold elections in August 16 of 2020 in what would be the country's first vote under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who took office in April 2018 and launched political and economic reforms.

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The International Court of Justice, the United Nations' highest court, will issue a decision on a request for emergency measures in a genocide case against Myanmar on Jan. 23, the Gambian Ministry of Justice said on Twitter on Monday.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa will embrace efforts by businesses to generate their own electricity, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday, reacting to growing frustration at red tape throttling private power generation.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Armed ex-security agents linked to Sudan's toppled ruler Omar al-Bashir fought soldiers in the capital Khartoum for hours until government forces quelled the revolt late on Tuesday, residents and a military source said.

LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Tullow Oil expects to report a $1.5 billion writedown after lowering its long-term oil price assumptions by $10 to $65 a barrel, an announced reduction in reserves in Ghana and disappointing exploration wells, it said on Wednesday.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will not refrain from "teaching a lesson" to Khalifa Haftar if his eastern Libyan forces continue attacks against the internationally recognised government in Tripoli, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will not refrain from "teaching a lesson" to Khalifa Haftar if his eastern Libyan forces continue attacks against the country's internationally recognised government, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's president confirmed the acting finance minister to the job on Tuesday, reshuffled his cabinet and announced the government's economic strategy for the next few months.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta confirmed Ukur Yatani as finance minister on Tuesday while announcing a cabinet reshuffle.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear Sudan's bid to avoid paying $3.8 billion in damages to family members of people killed or injured in al Qaeda's 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania after a lower court found Sudan complicit.

PARIS (Reuters) - France and five West African states agreed on Monday to combine their military forces under one command structure to fight a growing Islamist militancy in the Sahel region, with Paris committing an extra 220 troops.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army, has left Moscow without signing a ceasefire agreement drafted at talks in Russia on Monday, the TASS news agency cited the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying on Tuesday.