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Africa’s billions that the poor won’t touch

by Jeffrey Moyo and Miriam Gathigah

NAIROBI/HARARE, Jan 17 2014 (IPS) – With its two-trillion-dollar economy, recent discoveries of billions of dollars worth of minerals and oil, and the number of investment opportunities it has to offer global players, Africa is slowly shedding its image as a development burden.

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