12:35 GMT 28th September 2011
Ghana's parliament on has approved a $3bn Chinese loan and the country's finance minister said the west African nation was in talks with China's Exim bank for loans worth another $6bn, which are part of a broader Chinese package.
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12:28 GMT 28th September 2011
Japan agreed with Tanzania on August 28 to finance a grant worth 1.86bn yen ($24.2m) for the construction of a {) bridge linking the east African country with its neighbour Rwanda to help boost trade.
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12:24 GMT 28th September 2011
West African countries are discussing the creation of a regional force to tackle growing piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, a senior Nigerian government official said in August.
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12:10 GMT 28th September 2011
Bob Geldof, the former Boomtown Rats singer and Live Aid front man, said a private equity fund he agreed to front last year to invest in Africa was nearing its first close, having raised nearly $200m.
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12:05 GMT 28th September 2011
MTN Nigeria considers its ambitious corporate responsibility programme to be a core part of its business strategy
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12:01 GMT 28th September 2011
Corporate social responsibility should be an integral part of any business, delegates at a conference in Nigeria are told
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01:48 GMT 31st August 2011
A wave of industrial action shut down main sectors of the economy last month but business leaders say they can no longer foot the bill for higher wage demands. Bill Corcoran, Cape Town
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01:46 GMT 31st August 2011
The regeneration of Zambia's airports has begun based on recommendations of a US study. By Keith Mwanalushi
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01:43 GMT 31st August 2011
South Sudan said its former civil war foe Khartoum, which controls the pipelines for its oil exports, had declared ~ economic war against the new African nation by demanding a transit fee of almost $23 a barrel.
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01:40 GMT 31st August 2011
Chinese state oil giant Sinopec's Addax unit says a July 13 leak in a pipeline from a field in Gabon cost it some $3 million as around 30,000 barrels of output were temporarily held up.
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01:38 GMT 31st August 2011
Chad's first local-currency bond was over-subscribed and the central African nation raised 107.6bn CFA francs ~ ($232m) in the issue, the bank that helped the country organise the issue said late July.
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01:35 GMT 31st August 2011
Cameroon, the world's fifth cocoa grower, exported 196,492 tonnes of beans by June 30 for the 2010/11 season, up from 166,939 tonnes for the same period in the previous season, the National Cocoa and Coffee Board (NCCB) said in July.
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01:32 GMT 31st August 2011
Nigeria's United Bank for Africa aims to grow its loan book by 15-20 per cent in 2011 and plans to open subsidiaries in Mali and Angola, the bank said in July.
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01:29 GMT 31st August 2011
Cote d'Ivoire's 80,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery plans to boost its capaciry by 25 per cent in the next decade to 5 million tonnes a year, from 4 million now, its director general, Joel Dervain, said last month.
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01:26 GMT 31st August 2011
Liberia has marked out 13 new, ultra-deep offshore oil blocks and will soon auction about half of them to international oil firms, the head of the West African country's oil company told Reuters late July.
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