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India's restrictions on rice exports have paralysed trading in Asia, with buyers scouring for alternative supplies from Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar where seller are holding off on deals as prices rise, industry officials said.
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French independent power producer HDF Energy expects its green hydrogen power plant in Namibia, Africa's first, to start producing electricity by 2024, a senior company executive said on Monday.
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Around 500 Uber Eats riders from Africa, many without French working papers, demonstrated in Paris on Monday after the company kicked 2,500 accounts off its restaurant delivery platform that allegedly used fake identities.
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Government has proposed 30 March 2025 as the cut-off date to shut down the country's 3G network.
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The world's no. 2 cryptocurrency is to adopt an energy-saving protocol. The 'merge' could cut ethereum's power use by 99%.
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Credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings says it expects greylisting will raise government borrowing costs, but the impact on the banking sector will be muted.
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President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Monday seeking to bolster the trailblazing US biotech sector's efforts to take on growing commercial rivals in China, officials said.
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The Biden administration plans next month to broaden curbs on US shipments to China of
semiconductors used for artificial intelligence and chipmaking tools, several people familiar with the matter said.
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The rand will outperform emerging-market currencies in the coming year, supported by higher interest rates and China’s infrastructure stimulus, according to Societe Generale SA strategists.
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Booming commodity prices helped lift the IDC's revenue by more than a third in its year to end-June, and while funding approvals jumped 146% to R21.7 billion, it says it still isn't doing enough to fulfil its roles in terms of development and offsetting market cycles.
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Eskom plans to ramp up its maintenance programme over the summer months, but so far, the quality of work has not been what it should.
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At a briefing, Eskom said it is on track to do everything that needs to be done to ensure Koeberg can continue operating beyond July 2024.
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Buildings at a Denny Mushrooms farm in Shongweni near Durban were hit by a raging fire on Friday, with police confirming that they are investigated arson.
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Axed head of news Phathiswa Magopeni and suspended Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority Mamodupi Mohlala made the list to be interviewed for the South African Broad Casting Corporation board.
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Norway, a major producer and supplier of energy, is well placed to help alleviate Europe's energy crisis — and reap the profits, a situation not all of its European partners welcome.
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Voice-operated smartphones are aiming at a vast yet widely overlooked market in sub-Saharan Africa - the tens of millions of people who face huge challenges in life because they cannot read or write.
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As fertiliser prices shot up following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ugandan villager Peter Wakisi fretted for the future of his small farm and his young family.
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Almost half of the tyres in South Africa are imported, mostly from China.
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European retailers could turn to peers in South Africa for ideas on how to manage the worst energy crisis in decades as they brace for potential blackouts this winter.
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Saturday that he has "never seen climate carnage" on such a scale as he toured parts of Pakistan hit by floods, blaming wealthier countries for the devastation.
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