The coronavirus pandemic will plunge sub-Saharan Africa into its first recession in 25 years as global trade contracts in the commodities on which many of its economies rely, the World Bank has warned.
Growth in the region is forecast to fall from 2.4 per cent in 2019 to between minus 2.1 per cen
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