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South Africa’s Sappi to Invest $305M in North America, Europe

South African pulp and paper maker Sappi will invest $305 million in North America and Europe to increase its packaging capacity, the firm said on Wednesday after releasing its first-quarter.

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The African Leadership Magazine Persons of the Year 2016

                             About the Event The African Leadership Magazine Persons of the Year is in keeping with our.

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Political prisoners among 10 ministers sworn-in by Gambia’s president

Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has sworn-in 10 cabinet ministers in the capital Banjul on Wednesday. Among them are political prisoners during exiled former President Yahya Jammeh’s regime including leader of.

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Winning a Global Sports Event Can Transform Economies

  … Robust economic development and communications strategies essential By Martin Roche, Writer at Large 2017 will go down as an historic year. Not because Donald Trump became the 45th.

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African Heads of State Make Commitment to Advance Immunization

Heads of State from across Africa endorsed the Addis Declaration on Immunization, also known as the Ministerial Declaration on Universal Access to Immunization, a historic and timely pledge to ensure.

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Morocco Re-joins African Union

Morocco rejoined the club of African states on Tuesday, 33 years after quitting over recognition of Western Sahara, bringing one of Africa’s largest economies into the fold and raising hopes.

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Uganda: Restore, Conserve Wetlands to Fight Environmental Degradation

By Rosa Malango If you have ever fetched clean water from a lake, river or any other natural water body you should probably thank a wetland. Wetlands, are like sponges,.

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Former U.N. Chief Ban Rules out Running for President of South Korea

Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, once considered the front-runner to be next president of South Korea, ruled out running for the top job on Wednesday, disappointed at the “selfish ways”.

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First Ladies Urged to Continue Advocacy in Addressing Root Causes of Problems

African First Ladies should advocate changes in attitude and cultural norms as well as removal of legal and political barriers that stand in the way of the continent’s transformation, Ethiopia’s.

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Gold Miner Centamin to Pay about $100 Mln to Egypt in 2017

Centamin, the operator of Egypt’s only commercial gold mine, expects to pay about $100 million during its first full year of profit sharing with the government in 2017, subject to.

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