Southern Africa’s economic output will shrink by as much as 6.6% this year due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has said.
The bank’s best-case scenario sees output growth at -4.9% with a 6.6% contraction forecast under its worst-case scenario. That is against its...
Africa is beginning to slowly “bend the curve” of COVID-19 infections as measures like mask-wearing and social distancing slow down the spread of the pandemic on the continent, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said last week Thursday.
Although the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak was slow in...