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Africa: Positive Moves After Finance Ministers Call for Debt Relief During COVID-19 Crisis
allAfrica, 7 April 2020
The appeal Africa's ministers of finance made to bilateral, multilateral and commercial partners after their online conferences of March 19 and 31, 2020, for the alleviation of… Read more »
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Africa: Continent's Big Asks For The IMF and World Bank - Here's the List
The Conversation Africa, 8 April 2020
The coronavirus and its economic consequences have caused economic tsunamis in every country in the world. The scale of the onslaught will dominate discussions at the International… Read more »
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Africa: AU Predicts Continental Recession Due to COVID-19
VOA, 6 April 2020
With the African Union now predicting the continent’s economy will contract by 0.8 percent this year, African finance ministers are scheduled to meet via video conference on… Read more »
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UNECA, 1 April 2020
The second online meeting of the African Ministers of Finance took place on 31 March 2020 in the context of the outbreak of the coronavirus in Africa. The first meeting of the… Read more »
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Africa: French Finance Minister Supports Debt Moratorium for African Countries
RFI, 2 April 2020
In light of the rapid spread of Covid-19 on the African continent, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said at a press conference on Thursday that in order to avoid a tragedy in… Read more »