The China-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) approved a $100 million loan (Reuters) to Rwanda to finance COVID-19 recovery measures. The World Bank will cofinance the loan, which is the AIIB’s first to sub-Saharan Africa.
South Africa: President Cyril Ramaphosa will today visit KwaZulu-Natal Province (AFP), the epicenter of days of unrest in which at least 117 have been killed. South Africa’s government deployed twenty-five thousand troops in response to protests and looting.
