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Tazah, a B2B agriculture marketplace in Pakistan, raises an additional $4.5 million in a pre-seed round after last raising $2m in October. The startup which is based in Lahore and has already expanded operations into Karachi plans to expand in another city. Tazah, in a webinar on Pakistani tech startups with the Commonwealth Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong, said that it is aiming to revolutionise Pakistan’s complex agricultural sector by reducing the time between harvest and sale.

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Sanlam Ltd, South Africa’s No.1 insurer, will be exploring “strategic alternatives” in relation to its investments with Allianz SE for their respective African businesses, excluding Sanlam’s home market of South Africa. Sanlam’s subsidiary Santam, the largest non-life insurer in South Africa, also released a parallel statement.

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One of the leading independent oil and gas producers in the Asia-Pacific region, Santos will be listing on Papua New Guinea’s stock exchange, the PNGX. After Santos’ merger with Oil Search, it has successfully applied to list as an ‘Exempt Foreign Company’ on the PNGX becoming the exchange’s largest listing. The move also ensures that all the capital invested in Oil Search in PNG will stay in PNG.

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