By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Lusaka Times
Zambia has made technological progress in the mining sector, with increased investment and improved management at local companies, Acting Minister of Mines and Minerals Development Gilbert Siame said. He was speaking at the opening of the third Zambia Mining and Investment Insaka in Lusaka.
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Zambia’s Health Minister Roma Chilengi says health planning for 2027 should anticipate floods and droughts linked to El Niño. The country already links climate data to monitoring malaria and childhood diarrhoea, she said in Lusaka, according to the Daily Mail.
🇿🇲 Zambia · Source: Daily Mail ·
Botswana is seeking to attract Chinese companies to manufacturing, processing and technology to diversify an economy heavily dependent on diamonds. At the Botswana-China Business Forum in Beijing, 30 Botswana companies met Chinese firms, while organisers were aiming for around 300 participants, Weekendpost reports.
🇧🇼 Botswana · Source: Weekendpost ·
Mozambican minister Roberto Mito Albino has called for investment priorities to be set to mobilise the funding needed to transform agri-food systems. He was speaking on 13 October in Rome at the FAO Hand-in-Hand Initiative Investment Forum, according to Mozambique’s Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Fisheries.
🇲🇿 Mozambique · Source: Club of Mozambique ·
The Idini project, aimed at strengthening Nouakchott’s water supply, was completed two months ahead of schedule, Mauritanian Prime Minister El Moctar Ould Diay said. He made the announcement during a visit to the capital’s service facilities and projects, according to the Mauritanian News Agency.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Source: Kassataya ·
Zambian Presidency says Jay Jay Banda could not evade justice abroadThe Zambian Presidency said former MP Emmanuel “Jay Jay” Banda, captured in Mozambique and brought back to Zambia in a security operation, could not evade justice by taking refuge abroad. His legal adviser Christopher Mundia presented the arrest as a warning to fugitives, according to MaraviPost.
South Africa’s Calgro M3 half-year earnings fall 4.7%Calgro M3, a South African property developer, saw its half-year earnings per share fall by 4.7%, hit by economic difficulties and declining household purchasing power in the housing market. Its memorial parks business nevertheless grew, with revenue up 20%, according to Business Day TV.The week in Africa
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