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It is the low-income nations in the continent, like Tanzania, which are exhibiting the strongest growth.

Tanzania's mining sector grew only slowly this year due to uncertainty over government policies, a prolonged energy crisis and infrastructure constraints, a senior mining official said on Thursday.

A liberal-led coalition of eight political parties says it is confident of winning a parliamentary election in Morocco next month aimed at staunching any spillover from the Arab Spring.

Apple's stock slid Tuesday and Wednesday after a rare earnings miss. Is now a good time to consider the company's stock?

No need to repeat all of the bad news about the U.S. economy. Further, as the stock market's bulls point out, that's history. Looking forward, the picture brightens, and accordingly here's why the bulls think the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is headed higher in the next six months.

The Occupy Wall Street protest movement in the United States represents the arrival of a global wave of social and political turmoil, according to economist Nouriel Dr. Doom Roubini.

You can't blame investors for feeling a bit cautious regarding the Dow Jones Industrial Average's (DJIA) recent push from 10,700 to 11,140 in the past month. The stock market's bears say it's a false rally, and the Dow is likely to fall. Here's why.

South African stocks ended slightly lower on Tuesday with miners among the worst performers as growth worries in China hit industrial metal prices.

President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos cut Angola's growth forecast for 2011 to 3.7 percent on Tuesday due mainly to lower crude production but the economy should bounce back with a 12 percent expansion next year.

Kazakhstan, the second-largest ex-Soviet economy and oil producer after Russia, has enough reserves to weather a new wave of financial crisis and keep its currency stable, the National Bank governor told Reuters Insider TV.

China's economic expansion slowed in the third quarter to its weakest pace in more than two years as euro-debt strains and a sluggish U.S. economy took a toll, but healthy domestic drivers suggest little room to relax monetary policy near term.

China's economic expansion slowed in the third quarter to its weakest pace in more than two years as euro-debt strains and a sluggish U.S. economy took a toll, but healthy domestic drivers suggest little room to relax monetary policy near term.

World stocks stumbled from the previous day's 1-1/2 month high on Tuesday and government bonds rose as slower-than-expected Chinese growth data and a warning on France's triple-A sovereign credit rating prompted investors to cut risks.

China's economic expansion slowed in the third quarter to its weakest pace since early 2009 as euro-debt strains and a sluggish U.S. economy took a toll, but healthy domestic drivers suggest little room to relax monetary policy near term.

The gross domestic product of China has expanded 9.1 per cent in the third quarter from a year earlier, which is the slowest speed in more than two years for the world’s second-largest economy.

A report from McGraw Hill Construction found that green jobs now make up one-third of the positions in the design and construction workforce, a figure that is only expected to grow this decade.

Conservative agitator Pat Buchanan’s new book says America might not survive until 2025; it’s called “The Suicide of a Superpower.” Even less alarmist observers are suddenly sounding a lot like Buchanan, as economists now predict that China may surpass the United States as the world’s largest economy a lot sooner than we thought, and important conferences are convened to deal with what Fareed Zakaria memorably dubbed “the post-American world.”

Guinness Ghana plans to boost its pretax profit in the 2011/2012 financial year by 30 pct on the back of a recovery in the West African nation's beer market, the company's finance director said on Monday.

Prime Minister George Papandreou appealed for unity on Monday as Greece braced for a 48-hour general strike timed to coincide with a vote on a deeply unpopular package of austerity measures demanded by international lenders.

Suicide rates are skyrocketing in a country already beset by massive job cuts, austerity spending, slashed pensions, and soaring taxes.

Saudi Arabia's central bank is not interested in buying distressed or speculative assets such as troubled European debt and gold, and the OPEC member's banks are well-positioned to withstand the Eurozone crisis.