A number of gemstone and iron mineral potential areas have been discovered in the current fiscal year, says the nation's geological surveying body. Read more »
The failure of the Japanese public company to pay the U.S.$500,000,000 it offered in the bid for a 40 percent share of the Ethiopian National Tobacco Enterprise has delayed the ... Read more »
The government has said it will force all manufacturers to print larger health warnings on cigarette and other tobacco packs. Read more »
The government is actively pursuing companies and traders who are withholding the commodity from the market. Read more »
The government has failed to utilize its natural gas bonanza, which analysts say could have been used to offset the country's massive foreign debt. Read more »
I am not suggesting that the rise in demand and prices for commodities has not been important for Africa's economic progress, but the continent's turnaround began well before the ... Read more »
In January 2016, oil prices fell to their lowest levels in more than a decade. Meanwhile, China, the world's second-largest economy, is experiencing its most sluggish growth in a ... Read more »
Malam Nasir El-Rufai has said the raw gold deposits in one area of Kaduna State is more than the entire mineral deposit in South Africa. Read more »
The main opposition party MDC -T has said that the alleged U.S.$15 billion diamond loss has shown that the country's leader is no longer fit to rule. Read more »
The 1 111-carat diamond discovered in Botswana has officially been named "Lesedi La Rona". Read more »
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