Africa has continued to lead the ranks as the region with the highest rate of return on foreign investment. The continent is not only fast in developing its commercial future, but since the turn of the 21st century, the rate of real GDP has risen at more than twice its pace in the 1980s and 1990s, thereby making the continent an attractive destination for some of the most reputable global companies to set up offices. However, operating in and out of Africa comes with its challenges because the continent is plagued with a myriad of issues such as corruption,conflicts, environmental pressures, and insecurity, all of which tend to expose global companies operating in Africa, to corporate criminal liability for vices such as bribery, corruption, influence peddling, money-laundering, conflict/terrorism financing, and all kinds of white-collar crimes.
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