Mohammed Abakar Mohammed mends a Chinese mobile phone at his stall in Abu Shouk Camp in Darfur February 11, 2010. Sudan, like most African countries, has seen a massive expansion in its telecoms industry in recent years, focused on its main towns and cities. Now, a combination of cheap Chinese imports and demand from an influx of international peacekeepers, itinerant businessmen and aid workers has pushed the market on into a much wilder area, Sudan's strife-torn Darfur.
Picture: Reuters/Andrew Heavens
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2010-03-09 12:15
THE Gautrain Management Agency today dismissed as “spurious” a claim of more than R10billion by the Bombela consortium for reported delays in the construction process.
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