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Coal production in Africa will increase at an average of three percent a year to 2011, on rising demand especially from Asia, a senior African Development Bank official forecast on Friday.
A sharp increase in oil prices, which touched a record high of $135 a barrel this week, coupled with rising gas prices, have given coal a new lease of life, despite concerns of its impact on climate change, said Abdul Kamara, manager at the Tunis-based continental lender's research division.
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