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The ANC wants to combine the City of Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni into a single "Megatropolis" in South Africa. However, this has sparked debate over whether creating one of the country's largest municpal structures would improve service delivery or simply add another layer of complexity to...
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Uganda is moving closer to joining Africa's oil-producing nations, unveiling a new crude blend as it prepares to begin commecial production and potent...
United States uranium production more than tripled in 2025, but the increase still covered only a small share of the country's nuclear fuel needs, lea...
India has resumed talks with Zambia to explore investment opportunities in copperr and other critical minerals, two sources said, as New Delhi looks i...
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The Kingdom of Morocco, led by Africa's wealthiest monarch, has achieved a historic trading milestone with India , the third-largest economy in Asia. Bilateral commerce between the two nations has risen from $2.9 billion in 2021 to a substantial $4.4...
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British farmers have faced a sweltering summer tested by heatwaves, wildfires and water shortages-but a bumper berry harvest could prove a rare bright spot. With two-thirds of the harvest now picked, this year's haul is 6% up on last year's already ...
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Chicago, Aug 25-United Airlines (UAL.O) said on Tuesday it expects enough Airbus. (AIR.PA) A31XLR deliveries to support its European expansion next summer, as the carrier pushes into smaller markets and sees travel to the region staying strong into t...
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Uganda plans to transition 5 million households to clean cooking technologies by 2030, reducing biomass dependency to 50% with privte capital. The government plans to cut the share of biomass energy used for cooking from 75% to 50% by 2030 as it tra...
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The African Development Bank Group will participate in the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Ntaions Convention to Combat Desetification (UNCCD COP17), taking place in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, from 17 to 28 August 2026 under the theme "Resto...
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The race to build data centers is reshaping power grids, construction markets and corprorate capital spending on Earth. Now, some of the biggest names in technology ans space want to move part of that infrastructure into orbit. This would launch a n...
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At a time Uganda's public hospitals are already struggling with too few health workers, more than 2,000 young doctors staying away from their designated internship facilities should worry a country whose health system has little room to absorb anothe...
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The Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU) has set a strict technical completion deadline for all upstream operations and infrastructure, mobilizing joint venture partners TotalEnergies, CNOOC, and the Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) to hit this monu...
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The US has sanctioned a major gold refinery in Rwanda and two of its executives, accusing them of smuggling minerals from rebel controlled areas of neigbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. Washinghton alleged what it decribed as a "network" was col...
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