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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s TFG is buying on-demand online shopping platform and last mile delivery provider Quench, as part of a push to grow its e-commerce business, the fashion and homeware retailer said on Thursday. After years spent lagging much of the world in terms of e-commerce, South African retailers and delivery startups have …

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ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s telecoms regulator has picked MTN Nigeria, Airtel Africa and Mafab Communications to bid for 5G licences at an auction set for Dec. 13, it said on Thursday. The Nigeria Communications Commission had said in July that it expected to start auctioning spectrum for the next-generation 5G network in the fourth quarter …

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By Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) – Innovative financing tools provide a route to ensuring that commitments made at the COP26 climate summit are converted to action as Egypt plans for the follow-up event next year, the country’s international cooperation minister said. Scaling up climate mitigation and adaptation projects would be a challenge given the lower …

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LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambia’s copper production is expected to reduce to 800,000 tonnes by end of this year from 868,671 tonnes last year, Mines Minister Paul Kabuswe said in a statement on Wednesday. Copper output in Africa’s No.2 producer of the metal dropped to 593,500 tonnes between January and September 2021 from 623,816 tonnes in …

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DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal’s economy will grow 5% in 2021 thanks in part to solid industrial output, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday, revising up a previous forecast of 3.5% growth for this year. The Fund said it had reached a staff-level agreement with the West African nation that could pave the way for …

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By Helen Reid JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s state cobalt monopoly plans to start buying artisanal cobalt in January, its CEO Jean-Dominique Takis said in an interview at the Reuters Next conference, as the world’s biggest producer of the metal tries to ramp up revenue. Cobalt, which is trading at around $62,000 a …

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(Reuters) – South Africa-based miner Gold Fields laid out new environment, social and governance (ESG) goals on Wednesday, saying it would cut net carbon emissions by 30% by 2030 and look to boost the proportion of women in its workforce. The company, which operates gold mines in Africa, Australia and Latin America, said its investment …

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