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World Business Report: Africa's missing resource wealth

10/05/2013

Africa's missing resource wealth

BBC World Service - World Business Report, Africa's missing resource wealth

A report reveals Africa is losing billions of dollars of natural resource wealth a year.

A panel chaired by Kofi Annan warns tax evasion, secret deals and illicit financial transfers are depriving African countries of the benefits of the continent's resources boom.

A panel chaired by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan warns tax evasion, secret deals and illicit financial transfers are depriving African countries of the benefits of the continent's resources boom. Also 45 million dollars vanish in minutes in one of the biggest bank heists in criminal history. And we look at the facts behind the Great Gatsby's fictional fortune.

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