Nairobi is Ranked Africa’s Most Expensive City
06/03/2014A growing middle class culminating into rising costs in the past one year has seen Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi depose Lagos – Nigeria’s commercial hub – as the most expensive.
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Viewpoints on Nigeria at 100: Is A time to celebrate?
04/03/2014SOURCE: BBC AFRICA Nigeria is marking a century of its existence following the amalgamation of the mainly Muslim north and Christian and animist south under British colonial rule in 1914..
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Is South Africa Making Progress on HIV Vaccine?
04/03/2014Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has welcomed a discovery by scientists of potent antibodies that could neutralise and kill multiple strains of HIV. The discovery of how a KwaZulu-Natal woman’s.
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Oscar Winning Actor Ben Affleck Says U.S. Must Do More in War-Torn DR Congo
04/03/2014Capitol Hill — Hollywood star Ben Affleck Wednesday called on President Barack Obama to directly engage with President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo to encourage him to.
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South Africa’s Liberty Group Appoints First Black CEO
01/03/2014JSE-listed life insurance firm, Liberty Holdings has appointedThabo Dloti as CEO, making him the first black head of the company. Dloti, who is the current CEO of fund manager Stanlib,.
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South African Government Releases 2014 Budget
27/02/2014Despite the sluggish local economic growth brought about by the 2008 global recession, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has not gone back on his 2013 growth projections. Tabling his 2014 Budget.
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France Eyes Africa’s Mining Industry With $550m Investment
27/02/2014Europe’s second largest economy, France has revealed plans to invest €400 million ($548 million) in establishing a new state-owned mining company called Compagnie National des Mines de France (CMF), with.
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Microsoft Global President To Meet Nigeria’s Tech Community
27/02/2014Microsoft Global President, Jean Philippe Courtois will today meet with Nigeria’s Tech Community during a visit to the Co Creation Hub Nigeria, a social innovation centre dedicated to accelerating the.
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Kenyan Vehicle Manufacturer (KVM) To Roll Out Africa’s Cheapest Car By June
25/02/2014Kenyan Vehicle Manufacturer (KVM) has revealed that it is currently working on the assembly of Africa’s cheapest car in its Thika plant and expects the vehicle to be made commercially.
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Africa Needs ‘Marshall Plan’ To Tackle Employment Challenge – Tony Elumelu
17/02/2014Africapitalism proponent and chairman of Heirs Holdings Limited, Tony Elumelu, has said that Africa must do more to tackle the threat of unemployment, which risks derailing the continent’s much-touted economic.
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