The sub-indices suggest some stabilization in industrial activity and improvement in domestic demand, but a continued deteriorating external outlook.

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It is therefore hardly surprising that the state faith of Saudi Arabia - Wahhabism - has become the most dynamic ideological strain of Islamism in Sub-Saharan Africa, given that the Ministry of Islamic Affairs reportedly receives more money for activity in Africa than does the Foreign Ministry.

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