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World Bank's IFC to invest $256m in Senegal's top cement manufacturer

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Afribiz Invest, MES form crane and lift hire joint venture

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World's tallest timber apartment complex to be built in Zanzibar

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Workers sort pieces of an aluminium engine at a Romco Recycling facility in Lagos, Nigeria. 2022. Source: Reuters/Seun Sanni

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SBTi approves Saint-Gobain's 2050 emission reduction targets

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Nigeria hasn't been able to produce steel: remanufacturing could be the solution

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3D printed layers of a wall element. Mehdi Chougan, Author provided

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