LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) - Melinda Gates has pledged $560 million as part of a campaign to expand access to contraception for women in some of the poorest countries in the world.

LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) - Differentials on Nigerian light crude came under further pressure as three cargoes of Bonny Light were added to the July loading schedule, traders said on Wednesday. Bonny Light cargoes were added for loading on July 9-10, 16-17 and 24-25, while the mid-month cargo might have been already sold, traders said. The addition dented the sentiment, which had improved by a spate of deals done ahead of the release of September loading schedule early next week. "

ACCRA, July 11 (Reuters) - Ghana's cedi held steady on Wednesday against the dollar as sales of the greenback by local mines temporarily helped to ease pressure on the local unit, traders said.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan authorities on Wednesday told the captors of two journalists kidnapped while covering the election for a national assembly to release them or face the use of force.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's foreign ministry has suspended a former ambassador to Tehran after allegations he took a $200,000 bribe to help MTN Group win a mobile licence in Iran, a spokesman said in a radio interview on Wednesday.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - An Arab Spring-style uprising in Sudan would likely follow the bloody example of Syria or Libya because its armed forces and judiciary are not independent and could be used against its people, former prime minister Sadeq al-Mahdi said on Wednesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Chevron Corp. left workers pleading to be evacuated from a gas exploration platform off Nigeria which kept drilling as smoke poured from a borehole until an explosion that killed two people as the rig became engulfed in flames, according to accounts from four of the platform's workers.

CAIRO (Reuters) - A decision by Egypt's supreme court to overrule the president when he recalled parliament has raised the stakes in the power struggle between the long-repressed Muslim Brotherhood and the military which ruled for decades.

PARIS (Reuters) - Poverty, inequality and injustice are threatening to trigger a broad sectarian conflict in Nigeria, an international Christian-Muslim task force said on Wednesday.

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* Lines blurring between developed, emerging markets * Greek stocks on review for downgrade to emerging market * Institutional investors seeking out emerging markets * Emerging market hedge funds looking at Greece By Carolyn Cohn LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) - Investors are criss-crossing the increasingly smudged line between emerging and developed markets as the euro zone crisis challenges traditional perceptions of a safe investment. This blurring of distinctions was illu

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's wartime prime minister Mahmoud Jibril extended his lead in landmark elections, vote tallies showed on Wednesday, but Islamist rivals predicted their score would be boosted by allied independent candidates.

ACCRA, July 11 (Reuters) - Ghana's annual inflation rose to 9.4 percent in June from 9.3 percent the month before, the statistics office said on Wednesday, highlighting growing price pressures in the West African economy.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Libya's Gaddafi-era prime minister and oil chief Shokri Ghanem died after suffering heart failure and falling into the Danube river and there is no sign of foul play, the Vienna prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is set to unveil funding a sum in the hundreds of millions of dollars for a campaign to improve access to contraception in the developing world.

ROME (Reuters) - Fifty four people trying to reach Italy from Libya died of thirst after a 15-day voyage in which their rubber boat gradually deflated, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday, citing the sole survivor.

NAIROBI, July 11 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Wednesday. - - - - - EVENTS: *GHANA - Ghana due to release June inflation data anytime starting Wednesday. *UGANDA - Bank of Uganda auctions Treasury bills worth a total 80 billion shillings. *KENYA - Central Bank of Kenya auctions 182-day Treasury bills worth 3 billion shillings. *TANZANIA - Bank of Tanzani