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    BNP Paribas unit buys South Africa’s Mobicred

    By Duncan McLeod4 April 2022

    RCS, the consumer finance arm of French banking group BNP Paribas, has acquired South African online credit provider Mobicred.

    Nigeria orders 75 million phone lines disconnected

    By Agency Staff4 April 2022

    Nigeria has ordered the nation’s wireless companies to bar outgoing calls from phone numbers not linked to the national identity number in a bid to control extortions and abductions.

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