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Billionaire Johann Rupert's Remgro has paid chief executive Jannie Durand $13.8 million over 14 years
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Algerian billionaire Abderrahmane Benhamadi's Condor signs German pipe manufacturing deal in Berlin
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Mohammed VI's sisters expand property empire with Delano Marrakech deal and French land
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Nigerian tycoon Tope Shonubi's Sahara Group wins 31-year Kenya gas terminal lease amid Senate probe
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