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Mozambique
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Mozambique smelter ignores pollution limits

afrol News / Savana, 20 November - The large aluminium smelter Mozal, set up as a major Mozambique industry investment by foreign capital, is emitting polluting fumes and dusts emissions bypassing filters. Complaints are ignored.

Gabon
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Gabon nets US$1.7bn Singaporean investments

afrol News, 15 November - Gabonese authorities have managed to secure investments worth a total of US$ 1.7 billion from Singapore, including a new fertilizer plant to be set up outside Port Gentil and palm oil plantations.

Africa
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Global transformation to spur African industrialisation

afrol News, 9 July - The global recession should spur African nations to shift towards greater industrial capacities, improved infrastructure and expanded ties with developing countries in and outside the continent, a senior analyst holds.

Mauritius
Economy - Development | Labour
Foreigners working as "modern slaves" in Mauritius

afrol News / IPS, 5 July - Workers from Bangladesh have helped Mauritius to achieve the economic success and world market share that the Indian Ocean island state boasts about. But many live and work in conditions described as akin to "modern slavery", apart from facing discrimination, the denial of labour rights and even violence.


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Nile water resource dispute splits region

afrol News, 14 May - Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda have signed a controversial deal to regulate and share the waters of River Nile, despite protests from downstream nations Sudan and Egypt. Ethiopia at the same time opened its first major dam on the Nile.

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