00:00Africa may be thousands of kilometers from the Israel-Iran conflict, but experts warn
00:06the ripple effects will be felt across the continent. From potential trade disruptions
00:11to soaring market instability, African economies are already feeling the pressure and is unlikely
00:17to ease any time soon. The prices for energy goods like oil, petroleum is going to rise
00:23and that is going to affect many African countries that primarily rely on the fossil fuel to run
00:30their industries and to power their cars in the transport industry and factories.
00:39Goldman Sachs already predicts a $10 surge in benchmark crude prices. Meanwhile,
00:45the threat of the Strait of Hamza's closure, controlled by Iran, could send oil prices skyrocketing.
00:51Saurabh, Africa has to take up a strategic repositioning to understand
00:57the dynamics of the conflict and what it means for them domestically. And this means talking to
01:01populations around what is expected and what the likelihood of this conflict is going to be.
01:07With oil prices potentially rising, sub-Saharan Africa may face inflation and fuel shortages,
01:14adding pressure to economies already struggling with global uncertainties.
01:21Amics too.
01:22It's just an important thing.
01:23She is the most important thing of being associated with the conflict and not being at the conflict,
01:27but it's the most important thing that she doesn't want to do at risk.
01:29A lot of things that she wants to do is to do at risk.
01:32She has issues for her with the conflict and she sees throughout the conflict.
01:32The political conflict with the difficulty between being the conflict and women's words
01:35that she is getting downloaded in review.
01:37Strait of Hamza's nuclear GRACE
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