04:32 GMT 8th November 2011
Telecoms company Eaton Towers has secured $150m of private equity funding to expand its tower-sharing business in Africa, which is enabling mobile operators to roll out services to remote areas more cheaply.
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04:00 GMT 8th November 2011
Nigerian cement manufacturer Dangote has begun construction of a $115 million cement plant in Cameroon, and is eyeing another $585m in investments in the central African country, state radio reported last month.
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03:58 GMT 8th November 2011
Cote d' Ivoire's economy will grow 8 to 9 per cent in 2012, after shrinking 5.8 per cent in 2011 due largely to the effects of a civil war, the IMF said in September.
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03:54 GMT 8th November 2011
Last month Gabon launched what it billed as the biggest special economic zone (SEZ) in West and Central Africa, aiming to attract $1.1 bn a year in foreign investments via tax breaks.
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03:51 GMT 8th November 2011
A British Virgin Islands court has upheld a $2bn claim flied by Canada's First Quantum Minerals over a disputed Congo copper project, rejecting an application from units of Kazakh miner ENRC to dismiss the suit.
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03:46 GMT 8th November 2011
China and Tanzania are expected to sign a $1.06bn loan deal to build a natural gas pipeline from the southern part of the east African country to its commercial capital, a Tanzanian newspaper quoted its energy minister as saying.
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03:37 GMT 8th November 2011
Gold miner Mwana Africa's Zimbabwe mine output has risen to a monthly average of 4,500 ounces, outstripping its targeted annual production rate, company executives said in September.
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11:57 GMT 28th September 2011
Ethiopian Airline's entry into the Star Alliance aviation group is an indication that it is flying high. By Keith Mwanalushi
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11:53 GMT 28th September 2011
There seems to be no end to the crisis stalking Nigeria's banks following the latest move to rescue three of them. By Nsineno May Anthony, Lagos
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11:50 GMT 28th September 2011
All eyes on Ogoniland clean up after Shell admits liability for catastrophic oil spills. By Nsineno May Anthony
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11:40 GMT 28th September 2011
A number of new power generating projects is paving the way for Zambia to become an energy surplus nation. By Nawa Mutumweno
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11:36 GMT 28th September 2011
Following years of bickering over who controls the Nile, riparian states were urged to put their differences behind them at a recent conference. By Zachary Ochieng, Nairobi
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11:30 GMT 28th September 2011
Big business steps in to alleviate drought-hit northeast as the government is accused of dragging its feet. By Zachary Ochieng, Nairobi
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12:50 GMT 28th September 2011
The Republic of Congo's non-crude revenues rose 25 per cent to 500bn CFA francs ($1,087bn) in the first half of the year, Congo's president Denis Sassou N'Guesso said in August, adding the economy needed to ease its reliance on an oil industry poised for decline.
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12:43 GMT 28th September 2011
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has invested 4.58 billion naira ($29.6 million) in Nigeria's Guaranty Trust Bank (GT Bank), one of the top five lenders by assets in subSaharan Africa's second biggest economy, GT bank said last month.
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