The IMF recently released a report titled, ‘Geoeconomic Fragmentation: Sub-Saharan Africa Caught between the Fault Lines’.
Economic and trade alliances with new economic partners, China, India and others, have benefited sub-Saharan Africa.
Escalation of current geopolitical tensions would see countries in sub-Saharan Africa hit by higher import prices or even lose access to key export markets.
This would mean that half of the region’s international trade value could be impacted.
Sub-Saharan African region could lose an estimated $10 billion of foreign direct investment and official development assistance inflows.