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Congo rebels reach centre of eastern city in major escalation
Rwandan-backed rebels marched into the centre of east Congo's largest city on Monday, witnesses said, in the latest escalation of decades of conflict in a region already suffering one of the world's ...
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Parks Tau says no new tax planned for black-owned firms fund
South Africa is still discussing whether to set up a new fund to promote Black-owned businesses, and suggestions that new ...
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Ramaphosa says WEF sees SA’s GNU as a sign of stability, as instability brews at home
President Cyril Ramaphosa pointed out on Monday that the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting held in Davos, Switzerland, last ...
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DRC has created a reserve force to fight the M23 – why this may backfire
After nearly three decades of warfare, armed conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) seems only to ...
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Calls for accountability amid loss of SANDF members in DRC
Opposition parties have expressed sadness at the loss of nine members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in ...
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No, ‘Detty December’ remittances in Nigeria did not equal 4% of the country’s GDP, as claimed by former governor
The former governor of Nigeria's Lagos state Babatunde Raji Fashola was among the dignitaries who addressed new graduates of ...
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Rate chokehold on African economies is set to loosen slowly
Over the course of the next month, African nations representing almost three-quarters of the continent’s gross domestic ...