Africa Rise And Shine

TOP STORIES ON AFRICA RISE AND SHINE THIS HOUR... *** Opposition leaders in Mali are rejecting a plan by ECOWAS to end the country's spiralling crisis, still insisting that president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resign... *** South Africa's prepares to bid a final farewell to one of the country's foremost anti-apartheid stalwarts... In Economics: Nigeria's state oil firm signs a 1-point-5 billion US dollars prepayment deal led by Standard Chartered and backed by oil traders Vitol Group and Matrix Energy...