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Despite production cuts, the oil price has tumbled to just over $US81 a barrel after peaking at $US98 in late September.

Deferred meeting of OPEC+ points to dissent in the oil cartel

The oil producers’ meeting has been postponed to next week amid reports that members of the cartel are divided on how to respond to a slump in oil prices and the conflict in Gaza.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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The 170-carat pink diamond recovered from Lulo, Angola.

Largest pink diamond in 300 years discovered in Angola

The 170-carat pink diamond is believed to be the largest such gemstone found in 300 years.

  • Nqobile Ntshangase
Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president, speaks in a prerecorded video during the United Nations General Assembly via live stream.

‘Vaccine apartheid’: African leaders tell UN they need vaccines now

“No one is safe unless we are all safe,” was the common refrain.

  • Pia Sarkar
African elephants socialise along the Boteti River in Botswana, where numbers have swelled in recent years.

Botswana to send 'refugee' elephants home to ancestral lands

Thousands of elephant families, many of them refugees from decades of warfare, will be encouraged to trek north to their ancestral homelands in Angola.

  • Peta Thornycroft
Elephants are a big tourist drawcard in Botswana, but overpopulation is now causing problems.

Why Botswana wants Angola's exiled elephants to return home

Botswana may have found a solution to its elephant overpopulation: it's going to encourage some of them to emigrate.

  • Mbongeni Mguni
Isabel dos Santos is reputedly Africa's richest woman.

Africa’s richest woman is barred from her bank and under investigation

A bank where Isabel dos Santos is the biggest shareholder announced it was ending its "commercial relationship" with her after damning documents were leaked.

  • Michael Forsythe
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Prince Harry prevented from visiting HIV project after schedule switch

The Duke of Sussex was prevented from visiting a project tackling HIV in babies when Angola’s President switched the event.

Britain's Prince Harry walks through a minefield in Dirico in Angola.

'It's been emotional': Prince Harry recreates famous Princess Diana moment

Harry wore a protective vest and visor, echoing a famous series of images taken of Princess Diana more than 20 years ago.

An elephant, in Botswana's Okavango Delta, allows viewers a close approach.

African presidents want a return to ivory trade

Ivory sales currently require approval from the international community.

  • Antony Sguazzin

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