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Oil price rally will ease African producers’ pain...a bit

The rise in oil prices this year is likely to prove insufficient to remove strains in African oil producers’ balance sheets. Currencies in Nigeria and Angola will have to weaken further, and policymakers may turn to more desperate or draconian measures to plug budget deficits. Growth will lag behind regional peers.

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