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Nigeria: Dangote, China’s Sinotruck to Set-up $100Mln Truck Plant

Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote has partnered with China’s heavy duty truck group Sinotruck to set up a $100 million plant to assemble trucks and cars in Nigeria for local.

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Zimbabwe’s Largest Bank CBZ Suspends Local Use of Visa Cards

Zimbabwe’s biggest banking group CBZ Holdings has suspended the use of Visa cards for local transactions due to high costs and cash shortages, its chief executive officer said on Monday..

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Nigeria’s NNPC Awards 2017 Crude Oil Term Contracts to 39 Companies

State-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has awarded its 2017 crude oil term contracts to 39 companies, the company said on Tuesday. The contracts covering about 1.31 million barrels per.

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Ghana: Cocoa Sector Likely to Get Fresh Start with Incoming Government

By Matthew Mpoke Bigg Ghana’s incoming government could give the country’s $2 billion cocoa industry a boost if it installs a more transparent executive at industry regulator Cocobod and implements.

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Tunisia’s Foreign Loan Needs To Rise To $3.71 Bln in 2017 -Minister

Tunisia will need $3.7 billion in foreign loans in 2017, its finance minister said on Thursday, $1 billion more than anticipated two months ago, to offset declining tax revenues and.

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Mugabe Praises Resilient Zimbabweans, Skirts Bond Notes

By MacDonald Dzirutwe President Robert Mugabe praised Zimbabweans on Tuesday for resilience in the face of economic hardship, in a speech that avoided the recent introduction of “bond notes”, a.

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OPEC Joins Russia in Upping Output Ahead Of Production Cut

By Henning Gloystein Oil prices eased on Tuesday as crude output rose in virtually every major export region despite plans by OPEC and Russia to cut production, triggering fears that.

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Egyptian Billionaire Sawiris in Surprise Exit as Orascom CEO

  By Amina Ismail Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris has resigned as chief executive officer of Orascom and his deputy Tamer El Mahdi has been nominated as his successor, the company.

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Zimbabwe: Gov’t Signs $1bln Deal for Harare-Beitbridge Highway

By Barnabas Thondhlana Construction of the Harare-Beitbridge highway is set to start next April after government on Wednesday signed an agreement with the Austrian contractor Geiger international. The highway is.

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AFDB Offers Tunisia $2 Bln Loan over Next Five Years

The African Development Bank (AFDB) will lend Tunisia between $1.5 billion and $2 billion over the next five years, the bank’s North Africa director Jacob Kolster said on Wednesday. Kolster.

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