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Canadian miner Lucara Diamond, with operations in Botswana and Lesotho, is optimistic that operational performance in its Karowe mine in Botswana

The World Bank, the African Development Bank (AfDB), French Development

Oil production has resumed at the oil field of al-Fil (Western Libya) after nearly two months of blockage by protesting groups, an official of the Libyan national oil company (NOC), Mohamed al-Harairi, said on Wednesday.

Cameroon plans to build a new dam and hydroelectric plant, with 75MW capacity at Bini Warak, in the region of Adamaoua, in the northern part of the country

Botswana’s gold producer, Galane Gold, has kicked off the first ore mining from it Tau deposit in the northern part of the country, a development expected to enhance the company’s

Economic activity in The Gambia in 2014 is expected to expand to around 6.0-6.5 per cent on the back of robust growth in tourism and agriculture, according to Central Bank’s

Four countries have announced their willingness to host the Maritime Information Fusion Centre that will soon be established in South-West Indian

A global conglomerate, Kewalram Chanrai Group, is to set up a 10 billion naira (US$62 million) automotive assembly plant to produce the Foton range of

About 26 policy makers from 10 island-States, mostly from the Indian Ocean, are participating in a capacity development workshop on fossil fuel and

The West African Development Bank (WADB) has granted a 5-billion-CFA francs (US$10.6 million) loan for part financing of a project to provide access

Africa's largest lender Standard Bank has said it plans to use its presence in Cote d'Ivoire to expand its service offering across the rest of Francophone Africa which, the lender believes, is poised to experience an investment

The Zambian central bank has attributed the weakening of the Kwacha against major currencies, during the first quarter of 2014, to high demand due to higher