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Kenyan NIC to Merge With CBA

Kenya’s NIC will merge with the country’s biggest privately owned bank, Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA), to create the third-biggest bank in the region, the chairman of NIC said on.

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Masama Mine to Sell First Coal In March

Botswana’s first privately owned coal mine, Masama mine, which is estimated to hold 390 million tonnes of coal reserves is expected to produce its first saleable coal in March, the.

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Miners Demand Restructuring of Power Firm

South African miners have warned that tariff hikes alone would not solve Eskom’s problems. The group supports a restructuring of struggling state power firm Eskom to boost competition in the.

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Nairobi Stock Exchange to Launch Derivatives Market

The Nairobi stock exchange, Kenya aims to launch a derivatives market in the first half of 2019 after long delays and wants to list at least two new firms by.

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Total to launch Biggest Exploration in 2019

Total is launching its biggest exploration campaign for years in 2019 as part of a turnaround plan that is ditching the company’s focus on risky long-shots in favor of areas.

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Why Do We Have Two Mining Indabas?

Cape Town is hosting two Mining Indabas in February, underlining endemic divisions that undermine human development and business goals alike. By Brian Ganson South African is estimated to have the world’s.

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Reforming South Africa’s Tertiary Education Can Reduce Opportunity Inequalities, World Bank Report

Enhancing South Africa’s socio-economic inclusion through increasing equitable access to the country’s tertiary institutions in a weak economic environment will require comprehensively improving the country’s post school education and training.

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Oil Production resumes in South Sudan

Oil is again being pumped from fields in South Sudan’s former Unity state, five years after production was halted because of fighting between government soldiers and rebels. Awow Daniel Chuang,.

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Andela Secures $100M Series D to Build Distributed Engineering Teams and Power the Future of Work

Andela, the company building distributed engineering teams with Africa’s top software developers, today announced the completion of a $100M Series D funding. The round was led by Generation Investment Management.

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Anglo Says Fourth-Quarter Copper Output At Five-Year High

Anglo American said its copper output had reached a five-year high and its overall output for the last quarter of 2018 had risen 7 percent following operational changes that boosted.

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