Burkina Faso News
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Ivory Coast’s electricity monopoly, which has a stock that’s soared 95 percent in the past year, will increase exports as rising domestic demand boosts profit amid an economic recovery in the world’s biggest cocoa producer.
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Cotton output in Tanzania, Africa’s fourth-biggest producer of the fiber, may drop 30 percent this year after lower prices discouraged growers and pesticide distribution was curbed, the Tanzania Cotton Board said.
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Militia leader Amade Oueremi held responsible for illicit cocoa-growing in protected Mont Peko forest in western Ivory Coast, state broadcaster Radio Television Ivorienne reports. *Detention of Oueremi is part of government push to flush out people growing crops in forests and national parks *Oueremi, a Burkina Faso national, allegedly ran a group of armed private militia in Mont Peko since 2000
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The United Nations Security Council has made a wise decision to create an ambitious African stabilization mission for Mali.
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Ivory Coast’s Public Procurement Regulating Authority dismissed an appeal from a group led by CMA CGM SA in relation to a bid won by Bollore SA to run a second container terminal at the port of Abidjan.
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Gold producers are likely to scale back exploration programs as lower prices spur cost cuts, the head of Endeavour Mining Corp. said.
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Unilever Ghana Ltd. expects sales to grow by 10 percent in 2013 as the food and household-goods maker starts making Lipton Tea in Ghana for export into French- speaking Western African countries.
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Vivendi SA, the French company seeking to reorganize its telecommunications-to-media structure, is targeting a completion of the sale of its Maroc Telecom SA stake by October, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Boeing Co.’s decision to slow output of the new 747-8 model is complicating Cargolux Airlines International SA’s fleet-renewal plans as Europe’s biggest freight-only carrier standardizes around the upgraded jumbo.
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Clarisse Kambire’s nightmare rarely changes. It’s daytime. In a field of cotton plants that burst with purple and white flowers, a man in rags towers over her, a stick raised above his head. Then a voice booms, jerking Clarisse from her slumber and making her heart leap. “Get up!”
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