Sub-Saharan Africa to experience lowest growth on record amid coronavirus pandemic, IMF says
Sub-Saharan Africa in 2020 would experience its lowest level growth on record, tumbling from an initial forecast of 3.6 percent ...
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MTN announces $13.5 million relief package to tackle COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
MTN Group on Wednesday announced it was setting aside a $13.5 million (R250 million) relief package to respond to the ...
Unsafe water raises COVID-19 risks in Zimbabwe, Human Rights Watch warns
Zimbabwe government measures to combat COVID-19 should include urgently providing continuous and affordable access to sufficient safe water to people across ...
50 ventilators and personal protective supplies procured by UN arrive in Nigeria to boost fight against COVID-19
A shipment of 50 ventilators and other essential medical supplies procured by the UN system in Nigeria to support the ...
BREAKING: Coronavirus pandemic to hit Nigeria’s economy hard, IMF says
The coronavirus pandemic would hit Africa's most populous country of Nigeria hard, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projected in Washington ...
Kristalina Georgieva details IMF response to COVID-19 economic recession
The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva on Wednesday detailed how the Fund is responding to ...
Amnesty International blasts Trump, urges U.S. Congress to halt plan to suspend funding to WHO
Amnesty International on Wednesday called on the United States Congress to halt plan by President Donald Trump to stop funding ...
G20 agrees to suspend debt repayment of world’s poorest countries. Oxfam says it’s good but developing countries need $1 trillion in debt suspension and cancelation
Leaders of the G20, an international forum for the governments and central bank governors from 19 countries and the European ...
IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva quotes 20th century poet Thomas Stearns Eliot to capture “exceptional” coronavirus times
The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Ms. Kristalina Georgieva on Wednesday quoted Thomas Stearns Eliot, a 20th ...