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Africa’s richest have a combined $80.96 billion, a drop of $13.04 billion from $94 billion in 2015 This year’s Africa’s Billionaires list is dominated by Egyptians, who have a combined net worth of $15.71 billion, just $1.31 billion above the net worth of Nigerian billionaire, Aliko Dangote. Dangote continues to soar high according to  The African Billionaires 2016  March list released by Forbes, though his net worth took a $1.3 billion compared to end of 2015. While this is a positive outlook for Dangote and other wealthy men and women in the list, there were only 24 African billionaires this year, which is a drop by five, compared to 29 the previous year. Africa’s richest have a combined $80.96 billion, a drop of $13.04 billion from $94 billion in 2015. The wealthiest group are South Africans with a combined net worth of $22.21 billion. From the 54 African countries, only eight are represented in the list and only two are women. A close look of the Top Ten African billi