Buyers in Africa favour doing business in the Chinese currency as geopolitical tensions heat up.
Across Africa’s bustling commercial hubs, from Nairobi’s Eastleigh market to Lagos’ Alaba district, a financial transformation is quietly unfolding.
Local traders are increasingly sidestepping the US dollar in favour of China’s currency, creating informal yuan payment networks to do business with the world’s second-largest economy.
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