ACCRA, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The Bank of Ghana said on Friday that the yield on its 91-day bill fell to 23.11 percent at an Oct. 19 auction from 23.12 percent at the last auction.

GENEVA, Oct 19 (Reuters) - West African crude oil differentials were assessed unchanged on Friday in a well-supplied market, with most traders spurning higher offers for December Angolan crude. Offers on Angolan cargoes for the newly released December loading programme were seen as too high, traders said, resulting in slow sales. Initial offers released by Sonangol were around 40-50 cents above the levels traded for November cargoes. "Offers are higher than they were last traded in

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - African leaders have been making pilgrimages to Beijing for years seeking Chinese wisdom on expanding their emerging economies -- but they may do better by dropping in on Seoul.

JOHANNESBURG, Oct 19 (Reuters) - African leaders have been making pilgrimages to Beijing for years seeking Chinese wisdom on expanding their emerging economies -- but they may do better by dropping in on Seoul.

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Three people have died in southwest Uganda from an outbreak of Marburg virus disease, officials said on Friday, a severe and highly fatal infection, just two weeks after the east African nation said it was free of the deadly Ebola virus.

BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland has captured a boat coming from Yemen that was carrying heavy weapons destined for the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab rebels, officials said on Friday.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU leaders said on Friday the crisis in Mali, where Islamists have seized control of much of the north of the country, was an "immediate threat" to Europe, and threatened to impose sanctions on the armed militia there.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's army is heading towards the former Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid hoping to impose order in the town after deadly clashes there, the chief of staff said on Thursday.

BAMAKO/DAKAR (Reuters) - Regional leaders will join international organisations in Bamako on Friday to try to narrow their differences over whether al Qaeda-linked Islamists in the north of Mali should be dislodged via military intervention or a more gradual political approach.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Lonmin, the world's No 3 platinum producer, on Friday said its operations in South Africa were back to normal after about 4,000 employees walked out a day earlier.

ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana President John Dramani Mahama said he would aim to oversee annual economic growth of at least 8 percent while keeping comsumer prices in check in the West African State, if he wins elections in December.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - West African neighbours Ivory Coast and Liberia will launch a joint military operation by the end of the year along their volatile and porous border, the two nations' presidents announced on Thursday.

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Heavily armed Islamists bulldozed the tombs of three local Sufi saints near Mali's desert city of Timbuktu on Thursday, residents said, the latest in a series of attacks in the rebel-held north that critics say threaten its cultural heritage.

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A Libyan militia commander who U.S officials say is under investigation in connection with the attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi which led to the death of the ambassador said he was present during the incident but was not one of the ringleaders.

BANGUI (Reuters) - Security forces in Central African Republic arrested three men suspected of plotting to overthrow President Francois Bozize, the country's chief prosecutor said on Thursday.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Rwanda won a seat on the U.N. Security Council on Thursday, despite accusations by a U.N. panel that Rwanda's defense minister commands a rebellion in Democratic Republic of Congo, and warned countries against cutting off aid over the charges.

The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Friday. - - - - - EVENTS: MAURITIUS - The central bank auctions 364-day Treasury bills worth 500 million rupees. GLOBAL MARKETS Asian shares eased on Friday as markets consolidated gains from a three-day rally, while the euro remained underpinned after European Union leaders took a big step towards deeper integration with a deal to s