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Benin, Togo and Ghana begin a three-day meeting in Cotonou next week to hammer out ways to end a recent upsurge in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.
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/ 4 November 2011
Anglo American has bought an extra 40% of De Beers from the Oppenheimers for $5.1bn, giving it a majority stake in the world’s largest diamond firm.
Plans to reduce South Africa’s carbon overload by capturing noxious gases and storing them in the ground came under fire this week.
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/ 4 November 2011
A Tunis court has confirmed that jail sentences given to family members of Tunisia’s ousted leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali would remain.
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/ 4 November 2011
Differences about leadership preferences are threatening the unity of a coalition formed to oust Cassel Mathale, Limpopo’s premier.
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/ 4 November 2011
China plans to bridge the gap between rich and poor nations by urging emerging economies to make concrete emission reduction plans.
Christina Scott, one of South Africa’s premier science journalists, died tragically in a car accident just shy of her 50th birthday.
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/ 4 November 2011
New galleries are shaping Swaziland’s art boom, and each has a very different explanation for the sudden rise of art in the Kingdom.
Morgan Tsvangirai says agents loyal to Robert Mugabe are disrupting government programmes and assaulting civilians with impunity.
Berlusconi’s resignation has become a question of when, not if, after he was deserted by allies who say crippling debt isn’t Italy’s problem: he is.