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Xago, a South African crypto fintech that focuses on an all-inclusive approach to money transfers, announced that it has raised further funding from shareholders to continue its growth trajectory by expanding in all aspects of the business. Crypto exchanges, ecommerce platforms, financial institutions, retailers, business owners, and individuals partner with Xago to deploy efficient and…

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11 Top-Rated Rowing Machines to Add to Your Home Gym ASAP The AskMen editorial team thoroughly researches & reviews the best gear, services and staples for life. AskMen may get paid if you click a link in this article and buy a product or service. Product photos from retailer sites. When you think of intense, sweat-inducing machine workouts a few immediately come to mind: running on the treadmill, training on the elliptical, maybe spinning on the exercise bike. But you’re forgetting one – rowing. RELATED: Why Rowing Is the Workout You Should Be Doing at Home Rowing is an intense workout…

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Just outside of Porto is the wonderous wine country of the Douro Valley. The Douro Valley is Portugal’s most well known wine region and is home to the numerous wineries that produce much of Portugal’s wine and almost all of Portugal’s Port.This is where the grapes are grown and fortified before traveling in oak barrels on traditional style boats to the town of Gaia (across from Porto) where they are aged in the many cellars of the city. If you have been to Porto and gone Port tasting in Gaia, you’ll have tasted grapes grown in the Douro Valley.Thankfully, the…

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At the time of writing the riots engulfing Durban and other towns in KwaZulu-Natal, and also present in parts of Gauteng and the Eastern Cape, have the kind of scale and velocity that makes definitive statements unwise. There are sure to be local differences in how things are playing out, and new developments can and will happen at any moment. The full consequences of the decision to send in the army, made just as this article went to press, are not yet clear. But one thing is: Durban has been engulfed by food riots. New Framespoke to grassroots activists across…

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South Africa will sell a majority stake in its collapsed national flag carrier to local investors in the first privatisation of an ailing state-owned company since President Cyril Ramaphosa took power in 2018.Harith General Partners, an African infrastructure investor and Global Aviation, a local airline operator, will take over 51 per cent of South African Airways, Ramaphosa’s government said on Friday.SAA was once the continent’s biggest carrier but needed tens of billions of rands in bailouts to survive in recent years, adding to the strain on South Africa’s public finances during a long period of stagnation in Africa’s most industrial…

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Being a low deforestation country means, however, that Gabon’s potential to reduce emissions is even more limited. Therefore, new mechanisms such as the ART-TREES HFLD methodology are underway as incentives for HFLD countries to maintain low deforestation rates. Gabon’s Minister of Water and Forests, the Seas, the Environment, charged with Climate Change and Land Use Planning, Professor Lee White said: “This first payment of ODA financing, which is proportional to our historic emissions reductions in 2016 and 2017 at $5/ton, will finance projects that preserve Gabon’s forests. It also paves the way for Gabon to finalize the systems that will be required…

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