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IMF Africa Director on Africa鈥檚 economic storm

The IMF鈥檚 Africa Director, Abebe Aemro Selassie, says countries have been hit much worse than expected.

Against the backdrop of a global slowdown, we hear from Abebe Aemro Selassie, Director of the IMF鈥檚 African Department, on how Africa can weather the global economic storm.

Nigerian university lecturers call off their eight-month strike, but it is not clear what was achieved.

And it is five years since one of the deadliest terror attacks in Somalia鈥檚 history, when the militant group Al Shabab detonated a huge bomb at a busy junction in the capital Mogadishu, killing nearly 600 people.

Photo: Abebe Aemro Selassie, Director of the IMF鈥檚 African Department. Credit: Reuters.

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Fri 14 Oct 2022 15:06GMT

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