African Markets - Factors to watch on June 24

June 24 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Friday.

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EVENTS

* Mauritius - the Bank of Mauritius auctions 91-day, 182-day and 364-day Treasury bills worth 600 million rupees ($21.05 million).

* Kenya's - the central bank to release weekly forex reserve KEFXR=ECI table.

GLOBAL MARKETS

Asian equities are poised for their first weekly gains in nine weeks and the euro advanced from early lows on Friday, though the currency's gains could be short lived as many see Greece's deal with international lenders as a short-term fix for a long-term crisis. [MKTS/GLOB]

GREECE DEBT CRISIS

Greece won the consent of international lenders on Thursday for a five-year austerity plan intended to avoid looming bankruptcy and its prime minister pledged to push radical economic reforms through parliament. [ID:nL6E7HN278]

GLOBAL OIL SUPPLY

Industrialized nations agreed to release oil from emergency stockpiles for the third time in history, sending crude prices tumbling and providing some support to a faltering global economy. [ID:nLDE75M1BR]

LIBYA WAR

NATO's chief on Thursday dismissed a call from Italy for a suspension of hostilities in Libya and tried to reassure wavering members of the Western coalition that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi can be beaten. [ID:nLDE75L21P]

SUDAN SECURITY

The United States said on Thursday it submitted a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council that would authorize the deployment of 4,200 Ethiopian troops to Sudan's disputed Abyei region. [ID:nN1E75M1CH]

AFRICA CURRENCY OUTLOOK

The Kenyan and Ugandan shillings are likely to remain under pressure against the dollar next week after falling through a series of record lows that their central banks blamed on currency speculators. [ID:nLDE75M18Y]

AFRICA MONEY

Like reformed alcoholics slipping off the wagon, frontier African economies are sliding back into bad old ways, with yawning deficits, double-digit inflation and plunging currencies. [ID:nLDE75J17E]

EMERGING MARKETS

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AFRICA STOCKS

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AFRICA FIXED INCOME

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SOUTH AFRICA MARKETS

South African markets fell more than 1.5 percent on Thursday as investors dumped high risk assets in favour of the dollar on worries that the global economic recovery may be stalling. [ID:nLDE6AI1F4]

NIGERIA INVESTMENT

Nigeria will lift a requirement that foreign investors hold government debt for at least one year on July 1 in a bid to attract new investment and help stabilise the currency, the central bank said on Thursday. [ID:nLDE75M1JE]

NIGERIA BANK

Nigeria's Union Bank (UBN.LG) said on Thursday it was on track to recapitalise ahead of the central bank's September deadline and would soon sign the final agreements with its core investors. [ID:nLDE75M1MF]

KENYA C.BANK

Kenya's central bank has taken unspecified action against some commercial banks to curb speculative positions versus the currency of east Africa's largest economy, its governor said on Thursday. [ID:nLDE75M194]

KENYA MARKETS

The Kenyan shilling closed firmer against the dollar on Thursday, and analysts said it could extend gains in coming days after the central bank said it was taking action against speculative behaviour by major banks. [ID:nLDE75M1D6]

KENYA TBILLS

The average yield on Kenya's 91-day Treasury bills KE3MT=RR slipped for a second straight week on Thursday and some traders predicted further falls. [ID:nL6E7HN28M]

KENYA MPS AND TAXES

Kenyan MPs will not pay back-dated taxes demanded by the government and some could block budget allocations to state agencies if they are forced to pay, legislators said on Thursday. [ID:nLDE75M0RT]

UGANDA C.BANK RATE

Uganda will shift its monetary policy to target inflation rather than money supply growth and will launch a central bank interest rate in July, a top bank official said on Thursday. [ID:nLDE75M0Y3]

RWANDA SECURITY

Rwandan President Paul Kagame said on Thursday the central African country was not under any security threat, a day after police arrested suspected terrorists allegedly linked to exiled generals. [ID:nLDE75M1NV]

BOTSWANA LOAN TO ZIMBABWE

Botswana has committed 500 million pula ($75.98 million) in credit lines to neighbouring Zimbabwe to help that country's economic recovery, the finance ministry said on Thursday. [ID:nJ8E7G301O]

ZIMBABWE DIAMONDS

Zimbabwe has been given the green light to sell diamonds from its Marange diamond fields by the industry's leading certification system, but the decision did not have the backing of all members. [ID:nLDE75M1RS]

SOMALIA SECURITY

Unidentified aircraft attacked an insurgent base near the southern Somali port of Kismayu late on Thursday, wounding a number of fighters, al Shabaab officials and residents said. [ID:nLDE75M1UG]

SOMALIA SECURITY

Somalia's acting Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali was given the job full-time on Thursday by President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed and will form a government whose goal will be to quash a rebellion. [ID:nLDE75M0VE]

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($1=90.85 Kenyan Shilling)

($1=2467.0 Ugandan Shilling)