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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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UCT GSB Joins Prestigious Global List of Business Schools

The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) and 14 other business schools from around the world have been re-accredited by the European Foundation for Management Development.

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Sports Betting Banned in Uganda

Sport betting has been banned in Uganda after President Yoweri Museveni claimed the sports activity diverted the youth from doing real work. Mr. David Bahati, Minister of State for Finance.

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East Africa to Grow Faster than African Regions, ADB says

East Africa will grow faster than any other region on the continent in 2019, according to African Development Bank (AfDB). According to the AfDB in its African Economic Outlook 2019.

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Egypt to Spend $9 Billion on Refinery Upgrade

North African giants, Egypt plans to upgrade six oil refineries at a cost of about $9 billion over four years to increase domestic production to 41 million tonnes a year,.

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Mercedes-Benz Mulls Resuming Production in Egypt

Global vehicle manufacturer Mercedes-Benz looks forward to resuming production in Egypt soon, a senior official of the company has said. The company also considers additional models in Egypt, Markus Schafer,.

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VFS Global Awarded Contract to Open New Passport Application Centers in Ghana

Global outsourcing and technology services specialist for governments VFS Global has commenced operations with its first Passport Application Centre in the capital city of Accra on behalf of the Ministry.

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