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Zimbabwe's finance minister pledges economic reforms
Patrick Chinamasa pledged to ease indigenisation laws in his first post Mugabe budget
Zimbabwe's finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has presented the country's first budget since Robert Mugabe was ousted, pledging economic reforms. Liberia's Supreme Court puts an end to a legal battle that's been holding up the country's presidential election runoff. And the voice of Agudo Arwo - the first woman to be heard on Somalia's airwaves - has fallen silent.
(Picture: Zimbabwe's finance minister Patrick Chinamasa arriving to deliver the budget speech. Credit: BBC)
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