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At least 23 people, including 18 soldiers, were killed in two attacks in Niger, Radio France International reported, as Areva SA, the French maker of nuclear fuel and reactors, said one of its workers died and 14 were injured.
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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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France is looking to buy unmanned surveillance aircraft to strengthen its reconnaissance capabilities, the country’s Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said today at a news conference in a Washington.
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France will pledge 280 million euros ($360 million) over two years at a conference tomorrow in Brussels to help rebuild Mali, French officials said.
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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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African governments must do more to spread the spoils of a resources boom that threatens to generate jobless growth and widen inequality, according to the Africa Progress Panel, led by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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The United Nations Security Council today authorized the deployment to Mali of 11,200 peacekeepers and a separate French unit to stabilize the land-locked African nation and fight Islamist insurgents.
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