African native bringing foreign money into centre of Chad (5)
I believe the answer is:
hyena
'african native' is the definition.
(animal native to Africa)
'foreign money into centre of chad' is the wordplay.
'foreign money' becomes 'yen' (Japanese currency).
'into' is an insertion indicator.
'centre of' means to look at the middle letters.
The central letters of 'chad' are 'ha'.
'yen' placed into 'ha' is 'HYENA'.
'bringing' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for hyena that I've seen before include "Laughing carnivore" , "Beast" , "he's a laugh" , "He's sometimes spotted" , "Dog-like carrion eater" .)