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Weak currencies double pain for frontier African stock investors

African stocks look set to break a four-year winning run in 2015 with faltering currencies in markets such as Ghana, Nigeria and Zambia adding to the pain for foreign investors.

The MSCI Africa index was among the world's best performers over the last five years as investors bought into the 'Africa Rising' story of an increasingly prosperous middle class.

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