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Third try S Africas MTN in talks to buy Tatas telecom arms
2014-07-31 07:06:55| Steel - Topix.net
South Africa's largest telecom operator, MTN, is looking to foray into the Indian market again, this time by acquiring Tata Teleservices and Tata Maharashtra Ltd , sources with knowledge of the discussion said.
Invasion of the oil palm: western Africa's native son returns, threatening great apes
2014-07-28 21:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: As palm oil producers increasingly look to Africas tropical forests as suitable candidates for their next plantations, primate scientists are sounding the alarm about the destruction of ape habitat that can go hand in hand with oil palm expansion. A study recently published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology sought to take those warnings a step further by quantifying the overlap in suitable oil palm land with current ape habitat. Its a huge worry, said lead author Serge Wich of oil...
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Planned Projects Could Add 1.6 Million Barrels Per Day to Africa's Refining Capacity
2014-07-25 21:41:05| ENR.com: Headline News
Contracts for billions of facilities in Nigeria, Uganda, Algeria, South Africa have been awarded
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Africa's climate change hot spots
2014-06-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Southern Times: Some areas in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe have been identified as part of climate change "hot spots' on the African continent, putting them at risk of numerous climatic challenges over the next two decades. A group of scientists in Germany say that, for the first time, they have identified the "hotspots of climate change in Africa,' which cover three regions where people should prepare for multiple climatic problems over the next 20 years. According to scientists from the Potsdam...
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Oil drillers promise withdraw from Africa's Eden
2014-06-12 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: There will be no drilling in paradise. Soco International, a British oil company, has abandoned plans to drill for oil in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The park is a World Heritage Site, and UNESCO says it is Africa's richest trove of natural beauty and biodiversity. Soco will leave in about a month, after completing a seismic survey of the park's Lake Edward, where drilling was to have commenced. Tens of thousands of local people depend on the lake for fish,...
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