Drought Forces Zambia to Start Power Cuts
Zambia will start electricity-supply restrictions immediately after one of the worst droughts on record caused plunging water levels at the hydropower dams it relies on for almost all its supplies, the
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Zimbabwe Faces Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreak in South, East
Zimbabwe's veterinary department has placed two districts under quarantine and stopped the movement of all cattle in or out after ...
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Ivory Coast to Spend $1.1b to Rehabilitate Country's Forests
Ivory Coast will spend 616 billion CFA francs ($1.1 billion) over the next 10 years to rehabilitate and regrow the country’s forests that have shrunk as cocoa output expanded, a government spokesman said.
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Sewage, Icebergs May Hold Answers to Cape Town Water Crisis
The doomsday scenario of Cape Town’s taps running dry has been averted this year, after its 4 million residents slashed their water consumption and supply was cut off to farmers, but the crisis confronting
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AfDB Seeks Funds to Plug Africa $170 Billion Infrastructure Gap
The African Development Bank seeks investments from global pensions and commercial financiers to help fund the continent’s infrastructure gap of as much as $170 billion a year. The Abidjan-based lender
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Mining Charter Will Be Finalized ‘Soon,’ South Africa’s Ramaphosa Says
New rules governing black ownership of South Africa’s mining industry will be completed “very soon,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said at a Japan-Africa trade forum in Johannesburg. “The mining charter
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Seven South African Power Plants Lack Sufficient Coal Supplies
South Africa’s state-owned power utility is working with the National Treasury to source more coal for seven of its plants that don’t have adequate supply. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. is diverting coal
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Gemfields Faces Lawsuit Alleging Rights Abuses at Ruby Mine
More than 100 Mozambicans filed a case in London alleging “serious human rights abuses” at Gemfields Plc’s ruby mine in the southern African nation, according to their lawyers. Leigh Day, the London-based
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South African Miners Win Court Fight on Black Ownership Rule
South African mining companies won court backing on a crucial black-ownership principle that’s likely to have implications for ongoing negotiations with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government. Producers
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South Africa Delays Renewable Projects Pending Court Hearing
South Africa delayed signing agreements for renewable-energy projects worth 56 billion rand ($4.7 billion), after a court postponed a ruling on a labor union application to block the deals. The National
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Resolution Seen to Impasse Over South African Mining Rules
South Africa’s mining industry and the government are moving closer to resolving a dispute over levels of black ownership that’s deterred investment and dragged down growth in the continent’s most industrialized