financial system

As I write this, US lawmakers are still haggling about whether or not to approve the $700-million bail-out package, to rescue Wall Street. Exactly how all of this international financial stuff works is rather beyond me (and from reading newspapers and magazines such as Time, it seems not even seasoned financial reporters understand all of it, let alone the regulators). But one of my concerns, is how the current global financial melt-down is affecting, or going to affect, Africa.