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July 31, 2017

Youth of Africa fight for a seat among decision makers

 Business Day (South Africa) - 31 July 2017: As Zimbabweans brace themselves for the prospect of their 93-year-old president being re-elected in 2018, Nigeria is pushing for younger people to be eligible for political office.

The voting age in Nigeria is 18, but to be president or a governor in one of the country’s 36 states, citizens need to be at least 40 years old — and 35 to be a senator.

Last week, the Nigerian Senate and House of Representatives passed the #NotTooYoungToRun Bill, which includes provisions to allow young people to run for president from the age of 35 and as a governor or senator at 30.

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July 17, 2017

Debt wakes supermarket giant from pan-African dream

BUSINESS DAY (SA) Dianna Games - East Africa’s largest supermarket chain, Nakumatt, has long epitomised an "Africa rising" success story, with its rapid growth from a small family-owned company to a retail behemoth in a region many analysts described a few years ago as a new frontier for consumer growth.

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July 3, 2017

All over Africa, governments skirmish with mining companies

Business Day - 3 June 2017

Mining frameworks and regulations are always contested terrain, mostly between the multinational companies that dig up the riches and the governments that host them. In Africa, the issue of how to manage resource endowments among stakeholders is even more emotional, and urgent, because of the poverty of mineral-rich countries.

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