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• Angola: Businessmen Told to Seize Argentina's Project Experience May 20, 2012
  [ANGOP] Luanda - The Angolan minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and Fisheries, Afonso Pedro Canga, Friday in Luanda appealed to the national businessmen to seize the experience of Argentina in developing projects. […]
• Nigeria: Gas Explosion - Chevron Must Pay U.S.$3 Billion Fine, FG Insists May 20, 2012
  [This Day] The Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), Peter Idabor, on Thursday insisted that Chevron must pay an administrative fine of $3 billion to the federal government for the environmental disaster that accompanied the gas explosion in some communities in Bayelsa State. […]
• Nigeria: NAF to Partner South African Air Force May 20, 2012
  [This Day] Kaduna - Nigerian Air Force (NAF) will partner South Africa and host of other African countries in training, equipment and exercises in order to build a formidable air force in Africa. […]
• Zambia: 379 Miners Retrenched May 20, 2012
  [Times of Zambia] THREE-hundred-and-seventy-nine Mechanised Mining Solution (MMS) employees working at Nchanga underground mine in Chingola have been retrenched. […]
• Nigeria: Canadian Firm to Build U.S.$1.6 Billion Monorail in Abia May 20, 2012
  [This Day] Umuahia - The face of transportation in Abia State is set to change as a Canadian firm,Globim Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Abia State Government to build monorail system of transportation to connect Aba and Umuahia. […]