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Guilty By Association---By Toyin Akinosho The World Economic Forum On Africa (WEF on Africa) feels more posh than most of the business gabf... Date added: Thursday January 28 2010Nigerian Marginal fields: Who’s Out? What’s In?-----By Toyin AkinoshoThe second bid round for Nigerian marginal fields will no longer happen in 2009, that is clear. But significant anxiety exists, as much in the o... Date added: Tuesday October 20 2009Ghana’s Anger, Nigeria’s Frustration By Toyin AkinoshoThe delay in delivery of the West African Gas project is a source of headache for both Accra and Abuja....At an interactive session on Afric... Date added: Thursday July 30 2009Before Eskom Becomes The Problem:- By Toyin AkinoshoWith so much on its plate, the South African electricity monopoly may become unwieldy and inefficientEskom has returned to the news headline... Date added: Tuesday July 07 2009The Recession Is In Your Head:- By Toyin AkinoshoThe ongoing “correction” in crude oil price can be an opportunity.............Whenever I listen to some of Nigeria’s chari... Date added: Thursday June 11 2009Time Up For Trevor:- By Toyin Akinosho South Africa’s fixation with an “Immortal Trevor Manuel” is unhelpful to the cause of institution building.... Date added: Thursday May 28 2009INFRASTRUCTURE: bin Laden plans 'Africa to Arabia' bridge Dubai-based Al Noor Holding Investment Company hopes to build a bridge between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. But not just any bridge: Spanning... Date added: Thursday April 23 2009Gold revenues surge in Ghana Ghana’s gold output rose 3% to 1.27-million ounces in the first six months of 2008, but higher prices pushed revenues up 40% to $1.1 billion... Date added: Thursday April 23 2009MANUFACTURING: Rusal goes to Libya Russian aluminum firm RUSAL United Company, the world’s top maker of the product, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Libya to bui... Date added: Thursday April 23 2009Liberia has treated us shabbilyDelta Mining Consolidated (DMC) would contest its exclusion from iron-ore development in Liberia according to its CEO Heine van Niekerk. ... Date added: Thursday April 23 2009MINING: Zambia�s copper output soars Zambia’s copper output for the six months to June 2008 rose by 20 percent to 286 750 tons versus the same period 2007, according to the coun... Date added: Thursday April 23 2009Gauteng Premier resigns from office Mbhazima Shilowa, Premier of South Africa’s most important province, resigned on September 29, 2008, out of loyalty to ousted president Thab... Date added: Thursday April 23 2009TOURISM: Pyramids fenced in The area around the Giza Pyramids in Cairo, Egypt are to be enclosed by a fence over 19 kilometers long, equipped with motion detectors and camera... Date added: Thursday April 23 2009NATIONHOOD: Congo returns to fightingLife returned to being brutish and short in eastern Congo in August 2008 as heavy fighting between the army and Tutsi rebels in eastern Congo&rsquo... Date added: Thursday April 23 2009TELECOMS: MTN targets 3.5 million subscribers in UgandaSouth African mobile phone company MTN has spent $150-million in 2008 on expansion of its Ugandan network and expects to add a million new su... Date added: Thursday April 23 2009MINING: Large in Lesotho A hefty rough diamond, found in the southern African country, has the potential to yield a 150 carat polished stone. London li... Date added: Thursday April 23 2009MEDIA: Erraji cleared on appealThe conviction of Moroccan blogger Mohammed Erraji has been overturned at an appeal court. Erraji, aged 29, was arrested September 4, 2008 for... Date added: Thursday April 23 2009POLITICAL ECONOMY: South African crime and the random-shock factor No one who wasn’t there can imagine what that place looked like,” Inspector Isaak Fourie was saying. ‘It was an abattoir. All th... Date added: Thursday April 23 2009
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