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Africa: G20 Suspends Debt Repayments for Poorest Nations Fighting Covid-19
RFI, 15 April 2020
The world’s richest countries have agreed to freeze poor nations’ debt obligations, shortly after nearly 20 European and African leaders made a joint appeal for a… Read more »
G20 Offers Debt Payment Respite During COVID-19 Crisis
Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors from the G20 group of the world's largest economies have agreed to ease debt repayments for the world's poorest countries fighting COVID-19. In a communique isssued after the virtual meeting action plan, the leader announced suspension of government for the remainder of 2020 and called for private creditors and multilateral development banks to take similar action.
Communiqué - G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors [Virtual]
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Africa: ONE Responds to G20 Decision to Suspend Debt Repayments
ONE, 15 April 2020
Today, G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors agreed to suspend debt repayments for the world’s poorest countries for the remainder of 2020 as part of its COVID-19… Read more »
InFocus
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Sub-Saharan Africa is facing an unprecedented health and economic crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its latest Regional Economic Outlook for S Read more »
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True to the words of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres - "This is not a financial crisis. This is a human crisis." -- UNECA's report on COVID-19 in Africa - ... Read more »
