Economics

African Central Banks to Hold Rates Amid Virus Resurgence

  • Policy makers to consider recovery prospects, oil prices
  • Central banks in six economies due to decide on interest rates
Photographer: Adetona Omokanye/Bloomberg
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Central bankers in six sub-Saharan African countries are likely to leave borrowing costs unchanged over coming weeks as a resurgence of coronavirus infections driven by the highly transmissible delta variant threatens to choke off lackluster economic recoveries.