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Oxfam: 'Nigeria's Richest Five Can End Poverty'
How much wealth is too much in a country where huge numbers are poor?; Botanists discover a new cassava species; How are South Africans dealing with a new sugar tax?
(Photo: Nigerian Aliko Dangote, here with his daughter Halima, is Africa's richest man. Credit: Getty Images.)
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Thu 18 May 201715:06GMT
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