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Equatorial Coca-Cola to acquire Voltic and West African Refreshments
CNR Citi Newsroom
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July 8, 2025
Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company (ECCBC) and Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) have reached an agreement for ECCBC to acquire Voltic (GH) Limited (Voltic) and West African Refreshments Limited (WARL). Voltic is a subsidiary of CCBA and WARL...
Vietnam Cement Industry Report 2025 Output To Grow By 6.6% To Reach $4.12 Billion This Year - Size & Forecast By Value And Volume Across 80+ Market Segments To 2029
MENAFN
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July 7, 2025
(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) Vietnam's cement market is set to grow at 6.6% annually, reaching $4.12 billion by 2025. Despite challenges like sluggish domestic demand and export reliance, sustainability and green tech investments are...
Eco Forum Global Guiyang 2025: Guests Discuss Green Development And Pathways For Practical Implementation
MENAFN
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July 7, 2025
(MENAFN- GetNews) On July 5, 2025, the Eco Forum Global Guiyang officially opened in Guiyang with great ceremony. Government officials, experts, scholars, and business leaders from around the world gathered to engage in in-depth discussions under...
How Global Fund is Saving Lives from Malaria, TB, & HIV across Africa
Inter Press Service
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July 7, 2025
Africa, Development & Aid, Featured, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Credit: UNOCHA/Giles Clarke NEW YORK, Jul 7 2025 (IPS) - In Gabú, Guinea-Bissau, a...
Beyond the battlefield: The price of war and the fight for peace - An 8-part series
The Times of India
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Scenes from WWII, in which an estimat- ed 25 million soldiers died. Over 40% of them were less than 20 years old Old men cry war, young men die - Part 1 When Eric Johnston, who befriended Stalin at the Kremlin in 1944, was asked if he thought...
The West Can’t Survive the Sanctions It Needs to Deter China
The Diplomat
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July 6, 2025
In the modern context, sanctions are supposed to act as a line of defense, measures designed to dissuade adversaries before a conflict even begins. But for sanctions to carry weight, they must be seen as viable: not just in concept, but in...
Dean Spears & Michael Geruso on Why We Need More People
Persuasion
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July 5, 2025
Thanks for reading! The best way to make sure that you don’t miss any of these conversations is to subscribe to The Good Fight on your favorite podcast app. If you are already a paying subscriber to Persuasion or Yascha Mounk’s Substack, this will...
Durban High Court orders Vision Consortium to disclose Tongaat Hulett acquisition details
IOL
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July 7, 2025
The Vision Consortium that has taken over the rescue of Tongaat Hulett has been directed by the Durban High Court to provide documents and disclosures relating to the Vision Group’s acquisition of the former Lender Group claims and security. The...
The Construction and Real Estate Digest with Daniel KONTIE: Understanding why real estate properties are priced in US$: Demystifying the causes and impacts
Business and Financial Times
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July 7, 2025
Before I entered the real estate industry, I used to question why properties in Ghana are most often priced in US Dollars even though the national currency is not the US Dollar. I became an ardent critique of the practice and frown at any property...
Zimbabweans shine at Southern Africa engineering awards
Bulawayo 24 News
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July 7, 2025
Top engineering minds from across the Southern African region were celebrated for their excellence and leadership at the Southern Africa Federation of Engineering Organisations (Safeo) General Assembly and Awards Ceremony held from July 4 to 5 at...
Nestlé Zimbabwe Scales Up CEREVITA Production to Meet Growing Consumer Demand
The Zimbabwe Mail
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July 7, 2025
Nicole Roos,Managing Director and Chairperson of Nestlé Eastern and Southern Africa Region Nestlé Zimbabwe has expanded its production capacity for CEREVITA, its iconic breakfast cereal, in response to rising consumer demand. This follows the...
AEC Reaffirms Support for WAES 2025 Delegation Heads to Aberdeen
Business Ghana
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Ahead of WAES 2025, NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, AEC, will visit Aberdeen on July 11 to deliver a keynote on African energy opportunities for the UK supply chain. The African Energy Chamber (AEC) – the leading voice of Africa’s energy industry –...
Esther Dyson to keynote 12th Angel Fair Africa at Google NYC
Business and Financial Times
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July 7, 2025
The 12th Angel Fair Africa (aka AFA@12) will be held at Google’s 9th Avenue offices in New York City on September 12. Angel Fair Africa is an event that brings entrepreneurs and investors together to do deals. This marks the first time the event...
CCECC: Powering Malawi’s Infrastructure Boom with Excellence and Innovation
Nyasa Times
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July 7, 2025
The China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) Malawi Ltd. is rapidly transforming the country’s infrastructure landscape—winning national recognition and public praise for its impactful, high-quality work. Recently crowned Malawi’s...
Vision remains committed to Tongaat deal despite latest litigation
Engineering News
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Vision Investments subsidiary Vision Sugar South Africa has reaffirmed its commitment to the acquisition of embattled sugar producer Tongaat Hulett despite various litigation efforts having been made by a rival bidder. Vision says it remains fully...
How Dior’s Women At Dior Initiative Is Supporting Young Female Talent
Forbes
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Dream for Change 2025 finalists at the Women At Dior and UNESCO partnership event in ParisEric Mercier On the occasion of the fifth Women At Dior and UNESCO Global Conference in Paris, falling just a week after Jonathan Anderson’s Dior Menswear...
The Story of a Storm Part II: Visualising Conflict and Displacement Data
Bellingcat
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July 4, 2025
Extreme weather events are increasingly forcing millions of people from their homes. Last year, floods and storms caused more people to be internally displaced around the world than war or violence. Driving food insecurity and competition for...
Zimbabwe, Neighbours Face HIV/AIDS Crisis as US Freezes Key Funding
NGO Africa Watch
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July 6, 2025
Zimbabwe and its southern African neighbours are bracing for a severe HIV/AIDS funding shock after the United States abruptly froze its foreign aid programme, including the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The halt to US...
Opinion: Gas to Power a wrong turn in South Africa’s energy transition
Engineering News
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In this opinion article, Dr Jonty Cogger and Paul Wani Lado, attorneys at the Centre for Environmental Rights, argue that the ‘gas cliff’ should not be used as a justification for building large-scale gas-to-power infrastructure without fully...
Rangers in the Red
The Good Men Project - California
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July 6, 2025
By Joe Figel National parks and other protected areas around the world went from being understaffed to entirely neglected after the Trump administration abruptly froze foreign aid in January 2025. The announcement generated grim headlines from...