NAIROBI, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic

indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on

Wednesday .

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EVENTS:

*GHANA - Bank of Ghana's Monetary Policy Committee announces benchmark

lending rate decision after a three-day review of the economy.

*Central Bank of Kenya auctions 182-day Treasury bills worth 4 billion

shillings.

*KENYA - Barclays Kenya releases its full year 2012 earnings

results. The bank posted a 5 percent rise profit in the first nine months

of 2012 to 9.3 billion shillings.

*Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique and Malawi to release January inflation

statistics anytime starting Wednesday.

GLOBAL MARKETS

Asian shares inched higher on Wednesday while the yen was firmer amid

conflicting interpretations of G7 comments about the yen's recent

weakness.

WORLD OIL PRICES

Brent crude steadied on Wednesday, holding just below a nine-month high

near $119 per barrel on forecasts for a faster-than-expected growth in

global oil demand this year, but easing tensions in Iran subdued

prices.

EMERGING MARKETS

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SOUTH AFRICA MARKETS

South Africa's rand was weaker against the dollar on Tuesday, hit by a

fresh wave of risk aversion after North Korea raised global political

tension by testing a nuclear bomb.

Stocks drifted lower on Tuesday, weighed down by retailers due to

growing worries about the health of a credit-led consumer spending spree

after a major bank reported a spike in written-off debts.

KENYA MARKETS

The Kenyan shilling firmed against the dollar on Tuesday helped by the

central bank's squeeze on liquidity in the market, while the main share

index extended its rally to hit a 27-month high.

TANZANIA ECONOMY

Tanzania will tap a credit line with the International Monetary Fund to

boost investor confidence in the African nation, whose currency has come

under pressure in recent weeks.

UGANDA INLAND PORT

Uganda plans to build an inland port on Lake Victoria near its capital

Kampala to reduce its near-total dependence on Kenya's Mombasa, plagued

by strikes and congestion, and vulnerable to disruption from any violence

around elections next month.

GHANA BOND

Ghana will issue a 400 million cedi ($210 million) three-year government

bond on March 7 to service maturing debts, the West African nation's

central bank said on Tuesday.

ZIMBABWE MINING

Zimbabwe's government told platinum producers on Tuesday to start

refining the metal locally within two years, placing a further

requirement on an industry already forced to surrender majority shares to

locals.

Also, Zimbabwe's High Court has ordered allies of President Robert

Mugabe, including the tourism minister, to leave a RioZim Limited

gold mine that they invaded last month, state media reported on

Tuesday.

MOZAMBIQUE COAL RAILWAY

A railway line that takes coal from Mozambique's Tete province to an

export terminal at Beira was shut on Tuesday after heavy rains, an

official of the state-owned ports and railways group said.

The line is the only available export route for mining giants Vale

and Rio Tinto.

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((Compiled by Nairobi Newsroom))

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