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Somalia to save billions of US dollars in debt relief

World Bank and IMF say Somalia had taken the necessary steps to qualify for debt relief

World Bank and International Monetary Fund say Somalia had taken the necessary steps to qualify for billions of US dollars worth of debt relief. The announcement is expected to see the country's debt reduced from 5.2 billion US dollars to just a tenth of that over the next three years.

Lagos State Commissioner for Information Mr. Gbenga Omotosho explains he will implement new measures aimed at containing the spread of the Covid19 virus.

The BBC's Anne Soy travels to a flower farm just outside Nairobi to find out how the business of farming and exporting Kenyan flowers is coping during the CoVid19 pandemic.

(Photo Credit: Eric Lafforgue/Art In All Of Us/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Wed 25 Mar 202019:06GMT

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