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Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 10:05
Nestle is expanding a programme that boosts the income of poor African farmers supplying cocoa for its KitKat bars, but which still leaves pay well short of growers’ needs.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 09:59
China’s ongoing drive to advance high-quality development will create new opportunities for enterprises, according to industry insiders who joined the fourth episode of the China Economic Roundtable, an all-media talk platform hosted by Xinhua News Agency “We started from scratch like...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 09:47
Australia-headquartered Sandfire Resources has unveiled potential for new copper and silver discovery in Botswana, with the announcement of a maiden resource estimate for the A1 deposit, about 20 km from the Motheo copper mine, in Botswana. The company’s third-quarter results unveiled a maiden...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 09:45
Five units of the Israeli military have been found culpable for gross violations of human rights in individual incidents by the US State Department, however, they insist that they will continue to receive US military backing. All the incidents involved took place outside of Gaza before the current...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 09:41

Minister says ‘officers are used to this’, as figures suggest Home Office is in contact with only 38% of people it wants to remove

The Home Office is “used to” losing contact with asylum seekers, a UK government minister has said, after official figures suggested thousands of people it...

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 09:41
More than 70% of critical minerals needed for the transition to net zero emissions will be at risk from climate disruption by 2050, professional services firm PwC says. The firm's latest report, titled ‘Climate Risks to Nine Key Commodities Report’, shows that the production of copper, cobalt and...
The latest mining world news and project information from Africa. providing updates on the progress of future, new and existing projects. Developments in mining legislation, policies, investments and infrastructure will be highlighted
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 09:38
No fewer than 50 people have lost their lives in Kenya in a deluge following heavy rains and flooding, a Red Cross official has claimed.  According to reports, people living in villages near Mai Mahiu, about 60km (37 miles) from the capital, Nairobi, were swept away as they slept. People are still...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 09:33
Nigeria’s National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu has asserted that negative use of social media has constituted both local and global threats and, as such, presented an immediate national security priority for the President Bola Tinubu-led government.  Ribadu revealed that the National...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 09:32
London-listed Gem Diamonds has recovered a 118.74 ct Type II white diamond recovered at its 70%-owned Letšeng mine, in Lesotho. This is the fifth diamond weighing more than 100 ct to be recovered at the mine this year.
The latest mining world news and project information from Africa. providing updates on the progress of future, new and existing projects. Developments in mining legislation, policies, investments and infrastructure will be highlighted
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 09:27
The Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki has provided reasons why he increased the minimum wage from ₦40,000 to ₦70,000 in Edo State even though the Federal Government was yet to announce the new benchmark. Obaseki made this known when he spoke in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 09:22
The military junta in Burkina Faso has announced the suspension of yet more foreign media outlets over their coverage of a report accusing its army of killing 223 civilians. According to the report, US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said it believed the the massacre in February was in retaliation...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 09:14
The embattled National Chairman of Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, has declared that there will be no vacancy in Aso Rock in 2027 urging opposition parties not to waste their time.  While addressing supporters at the national secretariat of the party on...
Breaking News from Africa
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 09:13
Some 4.2 million registered voters were expected to cast a ballot on Monday (Apr. 29). The electoral commission has pledged to unveil trends of preliminary results as they come.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 09:09
[Premium Times] The lawmakers adjourned plenary sessions on 20 March for Easter and Eid-el-Fitr break.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 09:08
Pending an improved price and cost environment, Glencore said in its first-quarter 2024 production report on Tuesday that its Rustenburg ferrochrome smelter in South Africa’s North West province would remain idled. The London- and Johannesburg-listed diversified mining and marketing company...
The latest mining world news and project information from Africa. providing updates on the progress of future, new and existing projects. Developments in mining legislation, policies, investments and infrastructure will be highlighted
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 09:07
A Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal (CCPT) sitting in Abuja, on Monday restrained Multi-choice Nigeria Limited from going ahead with its plan to increase its tariffs and cost of products and services scheduled to begin on May 1 (tomorrow). The three-member tribunal, presided over by...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 09:07
Scientists at the Trapeznikov Institute of Management Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed a way to identify people by their brain activity. The researchers have trained artificial intelligence, conducted an experiment involving volunteers and, with a probability of 75 per...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 09:06
Flash floods and a landslide swept through houses and cut off a major road in Kenya, killing at least 45 people and leaving dozens missing on Monday, the interior ministry said.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 08:52
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Water Resources Authority (WARMA) has warned of imminent flooding as a result of a potential breach in the Seven Forks Dams following sustained rainfall.
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