with a remarkable literacy rate exceeding cabo verde has the foundation for an economic liftoff driven by a robust urban population with skills for a competitive private sector the country s urban renewal can therefore be an important driver of structural transformation in the years ahead the region is facing persistent pockets of insecurity at its northern and eastern borders because of the threat of boko haram and the crisis in the central african republic cameroons growth in has been estimated at a solid led mainly by the secondary sector which grew by