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13 April 2020
www.scidev.net
The continuing COVID-19 pandemic could make it difficult for Africa to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), an economist says.
13 April 2020
www.myjoyonline.com
It is certain that the Covid-19 global pandemic will end someday. What is unknown is the exact date this will happen. The deadly Covid-19 pandemic has already devasted the world.
13 April 2020
2m.ma
Le Bureau de la Conférence des ministres des Finances de la Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l’Afrique (CEA-ONU) a tenu par téléconférence une réunion présidée par le Maroc qui a été consacrée à l’examen d’un certain nombre de questions statutaires de la CEA-ONU.
12 April 2020
www.egypttoday.com
Director of the North Africa Office of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Khaled Hussein said coronavirus crisis is a short-term crisis, expecting the Egyptian economy to witness a robust recovery in 2021.
12 April 2020
www.youm7.com
12 April 2020
www.mubasher.info
12 April 2020
www.youm7.com
12 April 2020
qz.com
We all knew it was coming but it was still shocking when it did. World Bank this week laid out the severity of Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic outlook in the wake of the coronavirus global crisis. In summary, the region is set to tip into its first recession for 25 years, as the aggregate economy shrinks by between -2.1% to – 5.1%, wiping away some $37 billion to $79 billion in output for 2020.
11 April 2020
https://allafrica.com/
COVID-19 is a global crisis affecting the whole world. As the days go by the impact of the crisis becomes more visible and more general. Though hit later, Africa is already facing a synchronized and deep crisis. At all levels - health, economic, social - institutions are already overstretched. Africa is almost at a sudden stop economically even before the full brunt of the COVID19 reaches its...
11 April 2020
citizentv.co.ke
When the coronavirus began hitting Western economies, it hurt the economies of African countries, too – not only because of a loss in trade and tourism, but also due to a loss in remittances.
11 April 2020
www.francophonie.org
Face à l’urgence d’apporter à l’Afrique une aide financière lui permettant de faire face à la pandémie, huit grand noms africains de la politique et de l’économie prennent à leur tour la parole pour appeler à une suspension immédiate du remboursement de la dette.
11 April 2020
www.jeuneafrique.com
Face à l’urgence d’apporter à l’Afrique une aide financière lui permettant de faire face à la pandémie, huit grand noms africains de la politique et de l’économie prennent à leur tour la parole pour appeler à une suspension immédiate du remboursement de la dette.
10 April 2020
english.ahram.org.eg
The Addis Ababa-based Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), affiliated to the UN, has warned that Africa may lose “half” of its GDP, roughly over $1 trillion. Falling oil revenues,...
10 April 2020
news.gnet.tn
« La pandémie en Afrique durerait 8 mois, à compter de mars jusqu’au mois d’aout 2020. Le Coronavirus a duré 4 mois en Chine (décembre-mars). Il est prévu qu’il s’étalera sur 6 mois en Europe et aux Etats Unis (février –juin). Le paramètre clé serait l’efficacité des mesures qui ont été ajoutées à la capacité infrastructurelle pour évaluer la durée possible de la pandémie dans ces différentes...
10 April 2020
www.voanews.com
When the coronavirus began hitting Western economies, it hurt the economies of African countries, too – not only because of a loss in trade and tourism, but also due to a loss in remittances.
9 April 2020
https://afrique.latribune.fr
La Banque mondiale se montre alarmiste sur l’impact économique de la crise sanitaire du coronavirus en Afrique subsaharienne. L’institution de Bretton Woods prévoit une récession en 2020 où la croissance du PIB régional plongerait de 2,4% en 2019 pour se situer entre -2,1% et -5,1% en 2020. Si ces pronostics se vérifient, ce serait une première en 25 ans.
9 April 2020
https://lematin.ma
L’Afrique subsaharienne devrait entrer en récession en 2020, à cause de la pandémie de nouveau coronavirus, une première en plus d’un quart de siècle, a prévenu jeudi la Banque mondiale.
9 April 2020
www.lactuacho.com
Le niveau de propagation du Covid-19 inquiète et plonge les Etats dans une posture défensive. Cette crise sanitaire a fini de contraindre les gouvernements et les institutions financières internationales et celles onusiennes spécialisées de réviser leurs projections économiques dans le monde, et particulièrement en Afrique.
9 April 2020
www.finalcall.com
During a press conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Vera Songwe, executive secretary for the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) predicted the continent’s growing COVID-19 cases are set to deal African economies a severe blow.
9 April 2020
www.project-syndicate.org
Combating COVID-19 is more challenging in Africa than in other parts of the world. But a two-year moratorium on all external-debt repayments would at least give governments there the fiscal space they need to respond to the pandemic.
9 April 2020
www.brookings.edu
After a slow start, COVID-19 has spread increasingly rapidly throughout Africa, with more than 7,000 confirmed cases and 294 deaths across 45 countries and two territories as of April 7. Unless the continent urgently receives more assistance, the virus will continue to cut a deadly and remorseless path across it, with ever grimmer health and economic consequences. As an essential first step,...
9 April 2020
www.wbcsd.org
The COVID-19 virus has unleashed a global health pandemic and economic crisis, posing unprecedented challenges for food systems around the world. Food supplies could be massively disrupted due to measures put in place to control the spread of COVID-19.
9 April 2020
www.thisdaylive.com
COVID-19: NMA Adamant, Says Won’t Collaborate with Visiting Chinese Doctors
9 April 2020
www.ispionline.it
s had been feared and expected, Africa was not spared from the “novel coronavirus” pandemic. The rapid spread of COVID-19 on the continent is a matter of grave concern. If the very first confirmed cases were linked to European clusters – the “patient zero” in sub-Saharan Africa was an Italian citizen traveling to Nigeria from Milan – what frightens now is the activation of local chains of...