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(Reuters) – South Africa’s platinum mining industry has entered a phase of irreversible decline as producers struggle with low prices and demand suffers from the rise of battery electric vehicles, Northam Platinum CEO Paul Dunne said on Friday. The price of the white metal used primarily in autocatalysts, which once topped $2,000 an ounce, has …

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(Reuters) – Libya’s central bank governor Sadiq al-Kabir said he and other senior bank staff had been forced to leave the country to “protect our lives” from potential attacks by armed militia, the Financial Times reported on Friday. “Militias are threatening and terrifying bank staff and are sometimes abducting their children and relatives to force …

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By Ayman Al-Warfali BENGHAZI (Reuters) -More than half of Libya’s oil production, or about 700,000 barrels per day, was offline on Thursday and exports were halted at several ports as a standoff between rival political factions over the central bank and oil revenue threatens to end a four-year period of relative peace. Libya’s National Oil …

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African grocery retailer Pick n Pay said on Thursday that proceeds from listing its discount grocery chain Boxer could total 8 billion rand ($450 million), according to its preliminary estimate. Chief Executive Sean Summers is tasked with reviving through a turnaround and two-step recapitalisation plan a retail business that has been …

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GABORONE (Reuters) – Botswana’s state-owned Okavango Diamond Company (ODC) seeks a $300 million credit facility from local banks to support larger volumes of diamond purchases, Finance Minister Peggy Serame said on Thursday. ODC, established in 2012 as an independent window for the government to sell diamonds outside of the De Beers channel, currently gets 25% …

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