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Sudan's central bank in Khartoum
Sudan moves to shore up currency
Sudan is to inject foreign currency into the market in a bid to shore up the Sudanese pound - which is wobbling over fears the south will vote to secede in January.

A Walmart store in Massachusetts, USA Wal-Mart in talks to buy Massmart
Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, is in talks to buy South African wholesaler Massmart in a deal worth more than $4bn.
Plane Air Zimbabwe fires strike pilots
Air Zimbabwe says pilots who defied a 24-hour deadline to abandon a strike and return to work should consider themselves fired.
FEATURES AND ANALYSIS
Gambelan pastoral farmers Land grab fears
Ethiopian rural communities fear new leasing policy
Kenyan safari Out of Africa
Kenya wants to be an outsourcing destination
President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone Investor decisions
Foreign firms eye stakes in Sierra Leone business
Maasai beads Maasai bling
Europe's fashion for beads boosts Kenyan women
Seydou Sorogo shows a diseased cocoa pod at his farm near Bouafle Lack of chocolate?
Cocoa pod disease threatens Ivory Coast supplies
Yam festival in Nigeria Yummy yams
Why they are more than a food staple for Nigerians
MORE AFRICA BUSINESS STORIES
Mozambique's bread price change
SA public sector strike suspended
Mozambique arrests for food riots
Nigeria economy 'to grow by 10%'
Benin anger over finance scam
Nigeria ex-bank chief faces court
China agrees Guinea mining deal
Trafigura found guilty on waste
DR Congo mine to displace 15,000
Africa brewers take on moonshine
NTT buys South Africa's Dimension
Nigeria denies oil firm bankrupt
Fault disrupts East African net
Africa’s defence spending boom

A Zimbabwean man holds a placard among as a crowd gathers to attend commemoration of Heroes Day at the National Heroes" acre in Harare FROM TODAY >>
Ordered to sell
Black Zimbabweans to control foreign firms
Protester in Maputo, 01/09 Food for thought
Should Mozambique should switch to cassava bread?
Stephen Osuw at work in Adjeikrom They should cocoa
Can Cadbury and Fairtrade help Ghanaian farmers?
Nigeria stock exchange Taking stock
The impact of Nigeria's share market upheavals
boy sitting at roadside Taxing problem
Africans want to see changes before they pay taxes
Beria port dockside Beira Corridor
Mozambique gambles on trade super highway

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VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS
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Solar powered mobile phones The business of sunshine in Malawi

Tobacco plants Growers' warning over tobacco plans

Anna Cavell and a paraffin lamp Uganda businesses harness solar power

Using M-Pesa Kenya's mobile wallet revolution

Traders Scheme transforms Ethiopian trading

Wallace Kantai Pace of change speeding up in Kenya

Inside the iHub Kenya looks to technology-based future

Prime Minister Aires Ali Mozambique's investment push

World Cup fans Jordaan: World Cup has brought jobs

Catherine Ndlovu World Cup brings more work for locals

Young people in Rwanda The price of progress in Rwanda


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