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Major African lending bank offers $3 billion to struggling governments

The bank is offering the package to governments feeling the economic pinch of coronavirus

The African Export-Import Bank offers a $3 billion package to governments feeling the economic pinch of coronavirus, but is it a drop in the ocean? We speak to the bank’s president.

Also, South Africa prepares to go into a 21-day nationwide lockdown because of the coronavirus. We hear from Johannesburg and from a country already in lockdown - Tunisia.

Plus, Cameroon rebels declare a 14-day ceasefire on the border with Nigeria, to allow people to get tested and treated for coronavirus.

(Photo: President of the African Export-Import Bank, Dr. Benedict Oramah. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

23 minutes

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Thu 26 Mar 202019:06GMT

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  • Thu 26 Mar 202019:06GMT

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