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Oil and gas explorer Circle Oil Plc has made a second gas discovery in three months at its key Sebou Permit in Morocco, sending its shares up 3.6 percent.

Oil and gas explorer Circle Oil Plc has made a second gas discovery in three months at its key Sebou Permit in Morocco, sending its shares up 3.6 percent.

Imagine you are in Yokadouma, a rural community in eastern Cameroon with little electricity and inaccessible roads. You have an old, inexpensive mobile phone with which you can only make and receive calls. The good news is that it is now possible for that phone to be smarter - to send and receive e-mails, check a Facebook account and chat online, even without internet access.

Nairobi — Over the last eight years, Sibusiso Vilane has climbed Mount Everest twice, negotiated the world's other six highest peaks and became the first African to walk to the South Pole unassisted. He's now got his sights set on the North Pole.