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Masai herdsman on the phone
African apps boost business growth
A host of new mobile phone applications, developed by software designers across Africa, are promising to boost development and business growth.

Mobile marketing in South Africa

Marketing wizards in South Africa are increasingly targeting consumers through their cell phones.

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Nomsa Maseko reports

South African President, Jacob Zuma (R) and Klaus Schwab, executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Growing Africa 'must diversify'
Economic growth in Africa is strong, but it needs to diversify to continue its fight against poverty.
Joseph Aidoo House prices soar in Ghana
Ghana in West Africa has joined started pumping oil - and it's expected to mean big changes for the country's economy.
FEATURES AND ANALYSIS
Shanghai Liberty Apparel Opportunity calls
Africans eye Chinese enterprise
Gambelan pastoral farmers Land grab fears
Ethiopian rural communities fear new leasing policy
Kenyan safari Out of Africa
Kenya wants to be an outsourcing destination
President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone Investor decisions
Foreign firms eye stakes in Sierra Leone business
Maasai beads Maasai bling
Europe's fashion for beads boosts Kenyan women
Seydou Sorogo shows a diseased cocoa pod at his farm near Bouafle Lack of chocolate?
Cocoa pod disease threatens Ivory Coast supplies
MORE AFRICA BUSINESS STORIES
Air Zimbabwe fires strike pilots
Massmart backs sale to Wal-Mart
Mozambique's bread price change
SA public sector strike suspended
Mozambique arrests for food riots
Nigeria economy 'to grow by 10%'
Benin anger over finance scam
Nigeria ex-bank chief faces court
China agrees Guinea mining deal
Trafigura found guilty on waste
DR Congo mine to displace 15,000
Africa brewers take on moonshine
NTT buys South Africa's Dimension
Nigeria denies oil firm bankrupt
Fault disrupts East African net
Africa’s defence spending boom

Yam festival in Nigeria Yummy yams
Why they are more than a food staple for Nigerians
A Zimbabwean man holds a placard among as a crowd gathers to attend commemoration of Heroes Day at the National Heroes" acre in Harare FROM TODAY >>
Ordered to sell
Black Zimbabweans to control foreign firms
Protester in Maputo, 01/09 Food for thought
Should Mozambique should switch to cassava bread?
Stephen Osuw at work in Adjeikrom They should cocoa
Can Cadbury and Fairtrade help Ghanaian farmers?
Nigeria stock exchange Taking stock
The impact of Nigeria's share market upheavals
boy sitting at roadside Taxing problem
Africans want to see changes before they pay taxes
Beria port dockside Beira Corridor
Mozambique gambles on trade super highway

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VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Ethiopia welcomes first Dreamliner

Training for private security personnel Kenyan private security grows

The new pound is exchanged at a one to one rate with the old currency New currency for South Sudan

Joseph Aidoo House prices soar in Ghana

Broadcast tower Sharing masts means cheaper calls

Plastic bottles Turning trash into cash in Uganda

Mining iron ore Iron ore hope for Sierra Leone

Uranium mine Uranium key to Namibia's future


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