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Africa's growth promise: 'equality key'

If African leaders can deliver on jobs, justice and equity, they will turn Africa's population boom into a demographic dividend and ensure that the continent's massive growth promise is fulfilled - if not, they will court disaster, according to the 2012 Africa Progress Report.

Intra-African trade calls for 'political will'

The key to removing the obstacles hindering intra-African trade lay with the political will and energy of regional leaders, World Trade Organization director-general Pascal Lamy told participants at the World Economic Forum on Africa.

'Investor, look to African agriculture'

African agriculture is undergoing a transformation, creating a new era of opportunity for both farmers and investors, according to African and global leaders at the World Economic Forum on Africa.