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• Friday, September 03rd, 2010

Public sector strikes in South Africa have become so common in recent years that people are asking if plans should not be put in place to prevent the disruption of HIV and tuberculosis [TB] treatment, and prepare health workers.

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• Friday, September 03rd, 2010

This week’s riots in Maputo will not prevent Portuguese businesses from investing in Mozambique, according to Telmo Fernandes, managing partner of Market Access, a consultancy firm based in the northern Portuguese city of Oporto.

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• Friday, September 03rd, 2010

PETROLEUM retailer Engen is on the verge of buying Chevron’s downstream assets in seven sub-Saharan Africa and Indian Ocean Island countries, the company said yesterday.

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• Friday, September 03rd, 2010

New varieties of drought-tolerant maize could deliver a US$1.5 billion gain in food and income in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as helping smallholders cope with the effects of climate change, according to a study carried out in 13 countries in the region.

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• Friday, September 03rd, 2010

The fisheries and aquaculture sectors are central to the survival of millions in Africa, but the resource is under threat, yet the region should exploit market possibilities.

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• Friday, September 03rd, 2010

Over a million teachers, nurses and other government workers have downed tools across South Africa, suspending public education and healthcare while their demands for better pay go head-to-head with government’s reluctance to accede.

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• Friday, September 03rd, 2010

South Africa is confident that it could become the newest member of BRIC, a powerful economic coalition of the four largest developing nations in the world – Brazil, Russia, India and China.

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• Friday, September 03rd, 2010

All-time politician, Dr. Togba-Nah Tipoteh, sharing his thoughts on the much revered BHP Billiton Agreement which the government says stands to benefit the country, said the concession , as it is, is out-of-date,  and that  it is  not promotive of Liberalization.

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• Friday, September 03rd, 2010

Tanzania has introduced a new technology which experts tout as the effective solution to the problem of fuel adulteration.

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• Friday, September 03rd, 2010

Notwithstanding the current infrastructurally cramped conditions of Roberts International Airport (RIA), Liberia in the days of old was the epic center of international air traffic in West Africa, with the likes of KLM, Pan Am, etc., plying daily schedules. But the golden days suddenly eclipsed; courtesy of long years of civil conflict which left the heretofore first class airport of RIA in total ruins and triggered the exodus of international aviation giants.

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