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Can Africa turn its population boom into prosperity?

· By Al Jazeera
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Pretoria, South Africa – As global sentiment towards Africa turns sharply pessimistic, with aid cuts, foreign investment retreating, and governance scores stagnating, one structural fact remains: the continent is becoming demographically unavoidable.

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