Foreign Investments in Africa: Trends and Challenges

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Exploration of the impact of global factors like higher interest rates and political instability on foreign investments in Africa, highlighting the need for African private sector to step up and boost cross-border investments within the continent while addressing logistical and currency challenges.

Narendra Modi, the strongman of India, will have to compromise now his party has lost its majority. What does the surprise result mean for the country? As some foreign investors shy away from Africa, the continent’s private sector is serving domestic customers to fill that hole (10:02). And how mastering circus stunts could help future moon-dwellers exercise (16:42).

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