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...The Kremlin has allowed only limited coverage of Navalny’s death on state television news....
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...Both men are visiting Texas, the southern state which has a long border with Mexico, on Thursday....
...Roberto Izurieta, a government spokesperson, said in a television interview on Monday that the country’s penitentiary system had “completely failed”, and that Macías was expected to be transferred to a maximum-security...
...A key element of that is financing projects such as the Lobito Corridor railway to connect a port in Angola with copper mines in the region....
...The Kremlin has played down the news of Navalny’s death, limiting state television news to brief comments without showing his face while airing wild claims that the west was somehow involved....
...Angola and South Africa, two of the region’s biggest economies, were the last to issue foreign currency bonds in 2022, before a global rise in interest rates in effect shut off market access to borrowers...
...The extension of the kingdom’s voluntary 1mn b/d cut was announced by Saudi Arabia’s state press agency....
...It’s fully owned by Chinese government entities and under direct supervision of the State Council....
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...Blinken’s latest visit also includes stops in Cape Verde, Ivory Coast and Angola, as President Joe Biden’s administration steps up its engagement with Africa to counter the growing influence of China and...
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...Angola quit the cartel in December over the issue....
...asked Ayanda Dlodlo, executive director of the World Bank for Angola, South Africa and Nigeria....
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...“We call for a comprehensive and systematic response to the incipient debt crisis outside default frameworks,” it states....
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