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What African Economies Need to Survive the Coronavirus
A Nobel Peace Prize laureate explains that without vast restructuring of debt, all the continent’s recent gains will be wiped out.
To the rescue?
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The novel coronavirus outbreak engulfing the world is finally afoot in Africa. The health, human and economic toll will be vast for our continent's 1.3 billion inhabitants. The damage will not stop at our shores. The global connections between populations and economies mean that our suffering will reverberate through the rest of the world — and back again.
We must collectively do all we can to minimize its impacts on the continent. We can start by exploring immediate debt relief for all of Africa.