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Kenya: Kenya Receives U.S.$50 Million From World Bank to Address COVID-19 Pandemic
Capital FM, 3 April 2020
The World Bank Group Board of Directors has approved US$50 million -Sh5.3 billion- in immediate funding to support Kenya's response to the global COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic… Read more »
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Rwanda: COVID-19 - Rwanda Receives U.S.$109 Million Emergency Funding From IMF
New Times, 3 April 2020
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Thursday that it has approved $109.4 million credit to Rwanda. Read more »
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Nigeria: World Bank, IMF Seek Debt Payment Relief for Nigeria, Others
Daily Trust, 26 March 2020
The World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund have urged all bilateral creditors to suspend debt payment from Nigeria and 75 other International Development Association… Read more »
COVID-19 - IMF, World Bank's Debt Relief Plans for Small Nations
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are putting measures in place to assist smaller nations who are struggling with existing debt and whose circumstances have worsened following the COVID-19 pandemic which has gripped the world and has seen hundreds of thousands of deaths.
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Africa: Why the Third Wave of the Novel Coronavirus Could Be the Deadliest
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 26 March 2020
As dark as coronavirus crisis seems right now, the fact is it could get much worse Read more »
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Africa: IMF Is Launching a Tracker of Policies Governments Are Taking in Response to Covid-19
IMF, 25 March 2020
Washington, DC Governments around the world are taking decisive steps to limit the human and economic impact of COVID-19. Many countries have taken extraordinary monetary and… Read more »
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Nigeria: World Bank, IMF Grant IDA Countries Debt Relief
Vanguard, 26 March 2020
The World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, IMF, have suspended debt payments by their poor debtor countries. Read more »
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Liberia: IMF, World Bank Stand Ready to Help Combat Coronavirus
New Dawn, 3 March 2020
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank on Monday announced their readiness to help in the combat of the deadly coronavirus. Read more »
InFocus
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With the spread of the novel coronavirus across the world, African countries are showing a willingness to assist each other. Businesses and public and Read more »
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Fear mongering and homemade remedies: Fake news is getting in the way as Africa responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Cai Nebe for Deutsche Welle. This comes after social media ... Read more »
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The United Nations has launched a U.S.$2 billion plan to fight coronavirus in vulnerable countries and stop it circling the globe, saying nobody is safe if the most vulnerable ... Read more »
