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To: TobagoJack who wrote (113328)	9/10/2015 2:06:19 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 218581

Commodity slowdown is great for China, but get ready for more failed states in Africa... Sinking currencies reflect grim African prospects reuters.com With African populations growing faster than their economies can create jobs, analysts expect the squeeze on state spending to spill over into political unrest at some point. New York-based DaMina Advisors has even developed an African "Commodity Price Collapse Instability Index" - nicknamed Hades - based on its estimate that 87 percent of African government revenues are directly or indirectly linked to commodities. DaMina lists three states - South Sudan, Libya and Central African Republic - as being at "extremely" or "very" high risk of collapse, and a further five - Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho and Guinea - as high risk.