While the city has almost every kind of eatery imaginable, and is arguably the best food city in the nation right now, especially for fine dining, it did not have a lobster roll joint or casual to-go seafood place that was not sushi.

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He says that Nuru Energy, which currently focuses on East Africa and India, has already been approached by a number of potential joint venture partners to roll out the project in other parts of the continent.

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