The African Development Bank Group this week announced the launch of what it calls an open data platform in 20 African countries. The move comes as part of the group’s Africa Information Highway initiative, which is aimed at ...
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Associated British Foods has forecast flat revenue from its grocery division in the first half of its fiscal year amid challenging conditions in bread markets in the UK and Australia. ABF, which owns the Kingsmill bread brand in the UK ...
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China this week faced allegations that it is helping the Zambian government with deep packet inspection technology in order to eavesdrop, mine data, censor and intercept communications. The allegations come less than two years after the ...
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THE Kapiri Glass Manufacturing Company (KGMC) is expected to receive new equipment in the second quarter of this year in readiness for the commencement of production. Company chairman Costain Chilala said the company is expected to ...
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Associated British Foods has "emphatically" denied allegations of tax evasion on profits made by its sugar processing operations in Zambia. In a report published by Action Aid at the weekend, the charity claims the Ryvita and Silver Spoon ...
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Associated British Foods (ABF) is embroiled in a tax dodging row with the charity ActionAid over its sugar-producing subsidiary in Zambia. Kingsmill owner ABF denied tax dodging in Zambia According to a report published by the charity, ...
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Africa has become a battleground for low-to-mid-range smartphones following high-profile launches of products from leading manufacturers in the last two months. In Kenya last month, Safaricom, the region's largest mobile carrier, launched ...
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Kleist, prime minister of Greenland said on Tuesday, the autonomous territory of Denmark would not automatically look more favourably on firms from the European Union eager to exploit the region's vast deposits of rare earths and other ...
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Discovery Metals unsolicited bidder Cathay Fortune Investments has received the green signal from the Botswana competition authority. The Botswana Competition Authority earlier this month authorised the proposed acquisition on the grounds ...
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Cement production has stopped at Zambezi Portland Cement in Ndola due to a dispute over the company s shareholder structure, according to The Times of Zambia newspaper. A senior source at the cement producer said that management officials ...
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The Zambian Government is planning to spend over ZMK3bn ($000.6bn) on dairy equipment purchase for small scale farmers in 2013, Zambian Agriculture and Livestock Ministry livestock director in charge Dr. Benson Mwenya has revealed. Mwenya ...
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The mining and minerals industry has made major advances towards sustainability, but the sector faces new challenges as governments reassert control over their natural resources, but lack capacity to ensure mining can contribute to ...
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The following have all combined to limit control of foreign minerals by US companies: In 2011, Resource nationalism became the number one risk for mining companies Nationalization Expropriation Increased taxation Constraints on the degree ...
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The rise of mining costs will have a more dramatic impact on 2013 industry results than in the last couple of years, global ranking agency Fitch Ratings revealed Thursday. According to the firm’s experts, a gloomy macroeconomic ...
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AXG Mining has made the decision not to proceed with its acquisition of Pinto Minerals due to a delay in the granting of three licences to Pinto. Pinto has a number of applications for exploration licences located in Zambia, and one of ...
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