The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word KINSHASA
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result KINSHASA
- Family’s experiences after descending on a foreign city
- Family owns a housing society in African capital
- Capital: family has wasted it
- Capital family possesses invested in South Africa
- Capital family is obliged to access it
- African city family has hidden in South Africa
- Rough skin has a following in Africa
- 5 Kiss a Han wildly in African capital
- Capital son holds in family account initially
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The straight part
We know that "foreign city" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case foreign city = kinshasa.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.