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World Service,08 Jul 2010,18 mins
Africa Without Borders: But What About Bumps in the Road?
Business DailyAvailable for over a year
A new common market opens in East Africa. How it might improve livelihoods. But will free movement of workers lead to the tensions of immigration? Business Daily reports from a border, and airs the arguments about why the transport of goods in Africa takes so much longer than it does in, say, the United States - and it's not just that American roads are better. Plus Wycliffe Muga in Kenya wonders if ordinary people pay more attention to the World Cup than they do to the new common market there.
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