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Oct 2022
20m 59s

Africa and the global financial crisis

Bbc World Service
About this episode

How can Africa weather the global economic storm?  We ask the IMF's top Africa director.

Also, Nigerian university lecturers call off their eight-month strike, but for how long?

And we remember the deadliest terror attack in Somalia's history - it happened five years ago.

Those stories and more in this podcast with Hassan Arouni.

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