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SA finds a credit rating, once lost, is hard to regain
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 June 2019 12:23
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Lesetja Kganyago, then the top official at Treasury, was taking a break at Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro between two G-20 meetings in November 2008 when he got the bad news.
Barely three years after South Africa had managed to get its highest-ever investment-grade ratings from two of the three main credit-rating companies, the global…
Triple suicide attack kills at least 30 in northeast Nigeria
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 June 2019 12:11
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At least 30 people were killed in a triple suicide attack in northeast Nigerian state of Borno, state emergency officials said on Monday - the biggest mass killing this year by Islamist militants.
At least 161 dead in northeast Congo in apparent ethnic clashes
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 June 2019 12:04
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At least 161 people have been killed in a northeastern province of Democratic Republic of Congo in the past week, local officials said on Monday, in an apparent resurgence of ethnic clashes between farming and herding communities.
Sudan's Bashir charged with corruption, in 1st appearance since April
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 June 2019 12:07
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Sudan’s ex-president Omar al-Bashir was charged with corruption-related offences on Sunday, as he appeared in public for the first time since he was overthrown and detained in April.
He was charged with illicit possession of foreign…
Former Zimbabwe first lady Grace Mugabe owns 16 farms
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 June 2019 11:57
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Grace Mugabe, the wife of Zimbabwe former president Robert Mugabe, owns 16 farms, in what is against the country's land policy which allows ownership of one farm per family.
This was revealed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa during a radio interview in Harare on Friday.
Using Grace Mugabe's monicker, Mnangagwa said, "I know of one lady "Stop It" who…
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