Africa leads calls for debt relief in face of coronavirus crisis
by Lucy Lamble from on (#51716)
IMF and World Bank lend their support in bid to help poorest countries strengthen their health systems
Government ministers across Africa have called for the suspension of debt interest payments as the Covid-19 crisis deepens.
The numbers of cases being reported in Africa are still behind Europe and the US but rises are being confirmed in South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, Algeria and Burkina Faso, among others, and there is fear of what economic consequences the pandemic might wreak.
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