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Africa focus: Africa first

Demand for commodities and a new continent-wide free trade agreement could lead Africa out of the Covid crisis

Posted on 28 April 2021 09:30am18 May 2021 10:52am
Chris Crowe
Africa Coronavirus

In times of stress and unpredictability, it pays to be conservative. Most sensible investors will plump for safe havens during troubled times. So is Africa a senseless gamble?

Some 20 years after the term ‘Africa rising’ began to enter the world’s consciousness, the continent still delivers a plentiful supply of extreme volatility and complexity, intimidating factors that seep into deals, projects and other legal engagements. It is not a benign environment for law firms.

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