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VIDEO: Africa's cashew nuts champions
2016-05-20 14:12:17| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
How the Ivory Coast has become the world's top exporter of cashew nuts.
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Climate: Africas Human Existence Is at Severe Risk
2016-04-21 16:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: "Africa's human existence and development is under threat from the adverse impacts of climate change - its population, ecosystems and unique biodiversity will all be the major victims of global climate change." This is how clear the Nairobi-based United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is when it comes to assessing the negative impact of climate change on this continent of 54 countries with a combined population of over 1,200 billion inhabitants. "No continent will be struck as severely by...
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'It's a disaster': children bear brunt of southern Africa's devastating drought
2016-04-21 11:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Chidyamakondo high school, near Masvingo in southern Zimbabwe, has won the national girls football championships three years in a row. But that cherished record and far, far more is now at risk. Students are fainting, struggling to concentrate in lessons, dropping out of school were having to shorten our assemblies and cut back on sport, says headteacher Morrison Musorowegomo. Some of our players would rather leave the school and get married, or they will simply stay in the villages...
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VIDEO: South Africa's wooden watchmakers
2016-04-15 13:08:51| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The founders of Bettel talk about their wooden timepiece business in Cape Town.
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Safe Skies Key to Africas Growth
2016-04-15 11:58:00| Airport Technology
Despite the current financial turmoil, the World Bank estimated Sub-Saharan Africa's growth at 3.7% for 2015, with a slight uptick to 4.4% and 4.8% in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Six African countries feature in the bank's list of the 13 economies pr
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