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Angola's AAA Activos and Standard Bank agree deal
Image source: Zsuzsanna Kilian.
South Africas Standard Bank has entered a strategic partnership with Angolan insurance and fund management firm AAA Activos
UN tackles central African deforestation in US$7.3 million project
A UN-backed forest-monitoring initiative, valued at approximately US$7.3mn, will see 10 central African countries unite in the interest of protecting the region’s forests
Barclays to bring new life insurance services to Zambia
Barclays will offer life insurance services to Zambian customers. (Image source: Stephen Craven/geograph.org.uk)
Barclays and its subsidiary Absa group have jointly launched Barclays Life Zambia Ltd in a bid to offer life insurance services to Zambian clients
Sabie forest ravaged by fire
A part of forest area in Mpumalanga provinces Sabie area. (Image source: Smath/Flickr)
Plantations around the Sabie area in South Africas Mpumalanga province have been ravaged by five forest fires in the past week
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