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(Face2Face Africa) Obama Appoints Adewale Adeyemo as Deputy National Security Adviser
16 December 2015 | By Face2Face Africa Staff
U.S. President Barack Obama has named Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo his deputy national secur...
Cote d’Ivoire: $49 bn, 5-year investment plan to tackle poverty (The africa report.com)
ote d'Ivoire is aiming to invest more than 29 trillion CFA francs ($48.53 billion) in the next five years as part of efforts to foster ...
(The Economist) For most urban Africans, owning anything other than a slum home is out of reach
LAGOS, the congested commercial capital of Nigeria, has a population variously estimated at anything from 12m-21m. But what is certain ...
(Face2Face Africa) Dozens of Wives Divorced after Zanzibar Elections
According to civil society organizations and women’s rights groups, nearly 50 women who took part in Zanzibar’s elections have been div...
(Reuters) Zuma’s firing of South African finance minister dismays investors, ANC supporters
By Joe Brock and Ed Cropley
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 10 South African President Jacob Zuma's sacking of his respected finance minister in f...
(Global Risk Insights) Africa seeks more equitable deal at UN Climate Summit
By Andrew Manners, December 8, 2015
Despite contributing only a fraction of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, Africa is being hi...
(CBS News) Mark Zuckerberg faces criticism over his $45 billion pledge
By BRIAN MASTROIANNI CBS NEWS December 4, 2015, 1:02 PM
Days after announcing he would donate billions of dollars to charitable caus...
(NYT) I.M.F. Makes China’s Renminbi One of World’s Select Currencies
HONG KONG — The International Monetary Fund on Monday approved the Chinese renminbi as one of the world’s main central bank reserve cur...
Liberia: Exxon Mobil to drill offshore in 2017
Exxon Mobil Corp said it plans to start drilling in Liberia in 2017, in what President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said was a sign of economi...
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