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Africa’s Telecoms Market To Hit $65bn By 2018

Sub-Saharan Africa’s Telecommunication market is set to maintain positive returns as service revenue is predicted to top $65 billion by 2018. According to market intelligence specialists, Analysys Mason, the African telecoms.

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UK Foundation Offers $10.8m To Curtail Ebola

A £6.5 million ($10.8 million) emergency Ebola research fund has been released by the UK’s Department for International Development and medical research charity, the Wellcome Trust to boost efforts in.

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Mozambican Government And Rebels Sign Peace Deal

Mozambique’s government and rebel movement-turned political party Renamo have signed an agreement to immediately end their armed conflict. The deal comes ahead of presidential elections in October. Chief negotiators from.

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JPMorgan Listing Will Lure More Investors To Nigeria’s $13bn Bond Market

World’s biggest underwriter of emerging-market debt, JPMorgan says it will list Nigeria’s 2024 bond on its Government Bond Index-Emerging Markets (GBI-EM) this month, making it the fourth listed bond after.

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Kenya’s Biggest Online Clothing Store Driven By Social Media

Online retailing is rapidly taking preeminence over traditional marketplaces owing largely to a fledging ICT space an explosive adoption rate of Smartphones in Africa. One of such is Closet 49..

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Hope as More Survive Ebola in West Africa

Ebola is known to Liberians as the end of life as those infested with the deadly virus see infection as the end of the journey on earth and for this.

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Ghana: Democracy Is Producing Prosperity – President Mahama

INTERVIEW Washington, DC —John Dramani Mahama, one of the leaders taking part in the U.S.-Africa Summit earlier this month, became president of Ghana in July 2012 following the sudden death of.

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Nigeria’s Falconets Shine at U-20 World Cup, Bets Korea 6-2, to Play Germany in Final

Four goals from Rivers Angels forward, Asisat Oshoala, with one each from Courtney Dike and Uchechi Sunday saw the Falconets make it to the final of the FIFA U20 Women.

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Drone Journalism Takes Off to Give Kenyans a New View

  Flying drones are helping journalists in Kenya report on disaster stories by enabling them to film in dangerous or hard-to-access areas. The pilot African SkyCAM project funded by the.

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TRANSCORP Gets New CEO And $1bn Profit Target

Seasoned banker, Emmanuel Nnorom has emerged the President and CEO of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (Transcorp), a leading Nigerian conglomerate and owner of Nigeria’s iconic Transcorp Hilton Hotel Abuja..

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