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Africa Portal plans to expand to a wider audience
An online service targeting researchers and policy makers working on African issues is celebrating its first anniversary today. Since its initiation a year ago, the website has recorded more than 59,000 different visitors who used the system. As our Link Africa reporter Awa Dlodlo tells us, the Africa Portal is planning on expanding and giving Africans more access to information that can help them make decisions based on well researched findings.
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