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Zimbabwe's state-owned electricity company, Zesa, has cut its supply to major users because of unpaid bills worth $77m (£60m) .
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A pay strike by truckers in landlocked Malawi has crippled oil and power supplies, leading to prolonged blackouts and fuel shortages on Thursday.
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President Donald Trump announced Thursday he will meet with China's top trade envoy as the two sides pursue fraught negotiations that this week appeared headed for a dead end.
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Apple on Thursday removed a Hong Kong map application used by pro-democracy protesters, saying it endangered police, after China warned the US tech giant to drop the app.
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The families of Boeing crash victims are to receive compensation from the company after 340 people lost their lives in crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia earlier in the year.
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The Gambia is grappling with how to deal with the collapse of Thomas Cook, the UK tour operator responsible for about 40% of its tourists, the country's tourism minister has told the BBC.
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By Jonathan Paye-Layleh The price of mobile phone calls and data has sharply risen in Liberia. According to the two mobile phone companies operating in the country, the hike was ordered by the government’s telecoms agency over the…
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Unreliable electricity in Zimbabwe has forced its main telecoms company, Econet, to use batteries made by US-based automaker Tesla, Bloomberg news site reports. Econet services, especially mobile money transfers, have been critical in a…
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Eskom chairperson Jabu Mabuza has been appointed as the acting chief executive at the power utility.
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A Tanzanian startup BioBuu Limited is breeding maggots to recycle waste into animal feed
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