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China gives hero’s funeral to UN peacekeeper killed in Mali

  BAMAKO / AP A Chinese peacekeeper killed while serving with the UN mission in Mali has been given a hero’s funeral in his home province. The ashes of 29-year-old first sergeant Shen Liangliang were interred on Tuesday in a cemetery for national heroes in his native Henan. State media reports said thousands of people lined the streets along the ...

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Lufthansa monitors Nigeria as country owes $600mn in fares

  Berlin / Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG is closely monitoring its flights to Nigeria as the aviation industry awaits payment of about $600 million in outstanding air fares in the country, which is struggling to cope with depleted U.S. currency reserves. The German carrier has made “minor adjustments” to winter flights to Africa’s biggest economy, Claus Becker, managing director for ...

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S African Airways subsidises low-cost Mango Airlines

  Pretoria / Bloomberg South African Airways SOC Ltd. said the airline subsidized its low-cost entity Mango Airlines by sub-leasing planes at a discount to market value, a move that may have given the carrier an advantage in the country’s highly competitive budget market. The state-owned carrier sub-leased Mango all 10 of its aircraft “at a significantly discounted cost” while ...

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