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Commodity prices to turn into headwind

Our downbeat view that most commodity prices will fall back by year-end is largely negative for economies across Sub-Saharan Africa, with Zambia and Angola likely to be hardest hit, although some net oil importers are likely to gain from softening oil prices.

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