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South Africa's Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) said on Monday its striking members had rejected the latest wage offer by the world's three biggest platinum mining companies. The strike has been running for nearly four months at Anglo...

China has temporarily banned imports of British cheese after the country's food inspectors complained about hygiene standards at an unnamed UK dairy. The Chinese officials were reportedly dissatisfied with its maintenance and storage, raw milk transport temperatures and air sanitisation. However,...

South Sudan troops trying to recapture the oil hub of Bentiu from rebels have been forced back amid heavy gunfire, a BBC correspondent says. Government troops advanced towards the town centre over the weekend with an armoured column. But the BBC's...

European stocks slipped in thin trade on Monday after soft Chinese manufacturing data, while simmering tensions in Ukraine underpinned safe-haven government bonds and gold. Portuguese bond yields edged to eight-year lows after Lisbon said on Sunday the country would make...

Norway picked Citigroup (C.N) over rival U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase & Co Inc (JPM.N) as custodian of its sovereign oil wealth fund, the world's biggest at $865 billion, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Officials at the banks were not...

Ukraine's largest bank has temporarily closed branches in separatist-held Donetsk and Luhansk, saying it could no longer carry out cash transactions in regions riddled with crime that could "threaten the lives" of its workers. Pro-Russian separatists have targeted Privatbank, after...

No public commentator has as yet delivered as robust an analysis of the forthcoming 2015 presidential election as a regular columnist in the Vanguard, the intrepid Femi Aribisala. In a recent article, titled: ‘The 2015 presidential election will not...

Air transport reforms needed to unlock full potential Until recently, it was not uncommon for passengers flying between two African cities to transit through Europe. It was cheaper and faster, for instance, for passengers travelling to Ethiopia from Cote d’Ivoire...

Unprecedented investments in Africa’s ground transportation are hardly enough The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which sprawls over 905,000 square miles, is the second largest country in Africa. Fifty four years after independence, the DRC has no roads connecting...

“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. You build one by doing what is right at the right time.” Senator Bala Mohammed (KauranBauchi) wrote on his Facebook wall as far back as September 22,...