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Ghana bucks stock market trend

The country is at the top of the world's stock-return league table as it benefits from rise in commodity prices for the year so far

UK private equity investors eye Sierra Leone

Tom Cairnes of the Sierra Leone Investment Fund hopes to boost indigenous businesses to help spur economic growth

Rio Tinto continues to ride commodities boom

World's second largest miner expects prices to remain high but investors express doubts sending shares lower

Rio Tinto loses $10bn project in Guinea

Shares in the London-listed miner fall by 4.8 per cent after news that its licence to mine Simandou had been rescinded

Shell profits up despite new Nigeria attack

Royal Dutch Shell is losing 40,000 barrels a day of Nigerian oil after militants in the Niger Delta destroyed a pipeline

RCom keeps the lines open in talks

RCom and MTN extend talks after apparently dumping plans for a reverse takeover of the South African mobile telecoms group

Reliance and MTN extend talks for two weeks

Ambani feud may derail combination of Indian and South African mobile groups that could create $10bn world powerhouse

British companies confused by Zimbabwe advice

Government advice leaves British companies in a state of confusion about whether to continue to operate in Zimbabwe

Fears of further oil price rises after Nigeria attacks

Opec oil ministers are divided over the impact of a Saudi pledge to raise output as rebel attacks in Nigeria offset gains