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Remedy for a trillion-dollar problem?

Africa is bleeding. But it's not a physical wound, it's a financial one, and it's allowing more to leave in illicit flows - money that is illegally transferred, earned or utilised – than the amount being received in development aid.

Although the loss is coming out of Africa, and other developing regions, the band-aid that could stop the bleeding is in the hands of a small group of rich countries.

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