The IMF predicts that economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa will slow down in 2023 due to a shortage of funding resulting from reduced aid and access to private finance. U.S. authorities arrest a 21-year-old American working on a U.S. military base in connection with the leak of classified intelligence documents, including secrets about the war in Ukraine. And—in our Entertainment report, Music Time in Africa host Heather Maxwell, joins singer, songwriter and Music Producer Mongezi Ntaka in a live performance of his song ‘Higher than the Mountains’! These—and much more coming up on today’s Africa 54.