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Africa Needs $100 Billion Stimulus to Combat Virus
- Continent needs $100 billion emergency stimulus for Covid-19
- Continent needs coordinated efforts, finance ministers say
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Africa needs an immediate emergency economic stimulus of $100 billion to combat the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and almost half of that could come from waiving interest payments for countries on the continent, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.