Foreign investors and African capitalists are increasingly investing in Africa's infrastructure, minerals and businesses, driven by demographic growth and improved market integration.

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Talks towards creating a new international panel to address extreme wealth disparities, modelled on the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), opened in Geneva on Monday.

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