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By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Christian Akorlie ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana has raised the fixed farmgate price paid to cocoa farmers by nearly 45% to help boost their incomes and deter bean smuggling, Agriculture Minister Bryan Acheampong said on Wednesday. Reuters reported earlier this month that Ghana’s cocoa producer price review committee would raise the …

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) said on Wednesday that they would jointly lend an additional 200 million euros ($220.16 million) to renewable energy projects in South Africa. The concessional financing is on top of the 400 million euros the EIB and DBSA pledged at the …

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DERNA, Libya (Reuters) – The flood that crashed through the Libyan town of Derna a year ago killed Hassan Kassar’s four children and left him homeless in a wrecked city, where reconstruction has been delayed by the political rifts dividing the country as a whole. Kassar, 69, was in Egypt shopping for his daughter’s wedding …

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By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Floods in north Nigeria have killed more than 80% of animals in a large zoo with an array of wildlife from lions and crocodiles to buffaloes and ostriches, the facility said on Tuesday. “Some deadly animals have been washed away into our communities, like crocodiles and snakes,” Sanda …

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