05:04 GMT 24th March 2011
With Uganda expected to start oil production in the next three years, Edris Kisambira looks at the downside of a new super sector on board
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03:11 GMT 24th March 2011
President Zuma has hailed the decision to invite South Africa to become a member of the Bric group as a milestone for the country, writes Bill Corcoran in Cape Town
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12:20 GMT 15th February 2011
US FDI to Zambia has increased over the past 10 years, while China is collaborating on a key power project, reports Nawa Mutumweno from Lusaka
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12:16 GMT 15th February 2011
A special economic zone centred on timber processing is seen as a way of reviving Gabon's economic fortunes.
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12:13 GMT 15th February 2011
Africa's intra-regional trade stood at a paltry 10 per cent last year, highlighting the need for regional economic blocs to get their act together.
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12:09 GMT 15th February 2011
Nigeria's bailed out banks are off the critical list but not yet back to full health, leading to further measures to shore them up. By Nsineno May Anthony, Lagos
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12:06 GMT 15th February 2011
The political upheaval in Tunisia has dealt a heavy blow to planned stock and bond listings in the country and also has the potential to send rising portfolio flows across North Africa and the Gulf into reverse.
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11:57 GMT 15th February 2011
Ghana's stock exchange expects at least four new listings this year, including a local float by oil group Tullow, and predicts that inflows of new pension funds will boost trading volumes.
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11:15 GMT 15th February 2011
Ethiopia has penalised retailers and suppliers in the capital who raised the prices of consumer goods such as bread by amounts higher than caps set in January, authorities said.
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11:13 GMT 15th February 2011
Kenya's balance of payments posted a $365m surplus in the 12 months to September from a $360m surplus a year earlier, the central bank said in its latest monthly economic review.
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10:58 GMT 15th February 2011
Mauritius sees foreign direct investment (FDI) to the Indian Ocean island growing by 8 per cent in 2011, boosted by flows into the hospitality and property sectors, an official said last month.
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10:41 GMT 15th February 2011
China's Sichuan Hongda will invest $3bn in a coal-fired power plant and two iron ore mines in Tanzania, the state-run National Development Corporation (NDC) said in January.
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11:18 GMT 6th January 2011
A mining ban in troubled eastern Congo is preventing the tin and tantalum industry from meeting tough new US rules against 'conflict minerals,' an industry body said in November.
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11:16 GMT 6th January 2011
Congo Republic's oil production will rise about 2 per cent in 2011 to 348,000 barrels per day, with prices averaging $80 a barrel, according to the government's budget projections released in November.
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10:58 GMT 6th January 2011
Egypt's Orascom Telecom may seek international arbitration to end a dispute with Algeria that is holding up its $6.6bn plan to sell assets to Russia's Vimpelcom, according to a letter seen by Reuters in November.
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