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        <title><![CDATA[Timothy Rangongo]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mexico Peso Rises With Emerging-Currency Peers as Dollar Slips]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael O'Boyle]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:08:40 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Somalia’s President Signs Law Canceling Ethiopia Red Sea Access Deal]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Rangongo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2024 09:03:04 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Somalia’s Envoy to Turkey Quits to Run for Office in Oil-Rich Puntland]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Rangongo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2024 13:15:39 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethiopia Says ‘Affordable’ Bond Payment Withheld on Equality]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kerim Karakaya]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:50:27 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Absa New Gold Platinum ETF Fund Drives Investor Capital to South Africa]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Rangongo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:59:47 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stanlib to Invest $160 Million in Africa Renewables Via New Fund]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Rangongo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:23:42 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Wind turbines operate at the Gouda wind power facility in Gouda, South Africa, on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. With South Africa’s state electricity utility in dire financial straits and straining to meet demand, the government has reverted to courting independent renewable energy producers to help power the continent’s most industrialized economy.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bond Rally Breathes New Life Into South Africa’s Currency]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Rangongo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:52:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South African Bonds Generate Some of the Best Returns in Emerging Markets]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Rangongo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2023 09:30:23 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South Africa Gold Mine Workers Remain Underground as Dispute Continues]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Burkhardt]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:21:12 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The Modder East mine near Johannesburg.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Frontier Fund Coeli Beat Peers on Defaulters From Asia to Africa]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Colleen Goko-Petzer]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2023 07:02:50 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethiopia’s Peace Rally All But Gone as Default Possibility Grows]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Colleen Goko-Petzer]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2023 08:10:41 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South African Firms Ask for Overhaul of $7 Billion Jobless Fund]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Rangongo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2023 13:23:44 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Africa's Biggest Fund Manager to Grow Green Energy Book Beyond $854 Million]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Rangongo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 17:18:37 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Photovoltaic panels at the Rural Free State (Pty) Ltd. solar plant in Frankfort, South Africa, on Saturday, June 3, 2023. The rural town of Frankfort has returned into scheduled blackouts, following a court-issued ban sought by Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. against Rural Free State (Pty) Ltd., who were easing loadshedding schedules for residents by providing power from a local photovoltaic solar plant.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[South African Bonds Extend Losses on Tax Warning ]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:47:57 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Fire Leaves 73 People Dead in Downtown Johannesburg]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Rangongo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 05:25:06 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Repair Ship Bound for Cut Cables Off Africa’s West Coast as Internet Interrupted]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-24/repair-ship-bound-for-cut-cables-off-africa-s-west-coast-as-internet-interrupted</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Rangongo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2023 09:41:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[BRICS Bank Aims to Increase Local-Currency Borrowing to 30%]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Rangongo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2023 13:34:48 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Event banners on street lights outside the Sandton Convention Center on day one of the BRICS summit in the Sandton district of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. Expansion of BRICS membership is top of the agenda for the summit.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[BRICS Bank Raises $79 Million in S. Africa Bond Sale]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Rangongo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:15:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South Africa and China Strike Trade Agreements Worth $2.2 Billion]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2023 18:04:56 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A tug boat patrols alongside a container vessel docked at the Port of Cape Town, operated by Transnet SOC Ltd., in Cape Town, South Africa, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. Transnet, which operates South Africa’s ports and freight-rail network, has started a new $6 billion bond sale program in its first foray into international capital markets in more than a decade.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Vodacom Fiber Deal in Doubt After Regulator Advises Against]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loni Prinsloo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 16:04:11 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A Vodacom Group Ltd. advertisement surrounds the top of the Ponte tower residential building on the city skyline at dusk in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Tuesday, July 17, 2018. South Africa&apos;s cash-strapped power utility, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., is &quot;a threat&quot; to the nation&apos;s investment strategy, Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene said.</media:description>
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