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The Horn of Africa we're going to West Africa. The most populous the richest the most powerful state in West Africa, perhaps all of Sub-Saharan

Africa, perhaps the whole continent, Nigeria.

I read from a recent report, Nigeria's inflation rate increased to 33.2% in March of 24, a 1.5% increase from that recorded

in February, driven by increased food, beverages, energy, and housing costs.

On a year on year basis, the headline inflation rate increased by 11.6 from 22 point in March of 23. The food inflation rate reached 40% year on year

marking an increase of 15, 16 points from what it was in March of 23. I'll stop there Gregory. The food's

getting more expensive, beverages, energy. This usually describes a

a state that is in distress, is it?

It is definitely in distress, and largely, not in control of either the security or the economic

situation, and of course both are intertwined in Nigeria, and in Nigeria is a country I've spent many years

well for the last 40 or 50 years going in and out on a regular basis but what's

interesting to see is firstly the security situation which is swinging

away from the Boca Haram and other jihadist groups which were in the northeast states of Nigeria and now

we're seeing the greatest number of killings in a violent crime type killings are now in the northwest particularly in the state of

Zamfara which I've been to quite a number of times a very peaceful state but

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