NAIROBI, April 9 (Reuters) - The World Bank forecasts the
sub-Saharan Africa region's economic growth for 2020 will
contract because of the impact of the coronavirus outbreak,
going into a recession for the first time in 25 years, it said
on Thursday.
The bank's Africa's Pulse report said this year's growth
will be between minus 2.1% to minus 5.1% from 2.4% last year,
and that the coronavirus will cost sub-Saharan Africa $37
billion to $79 billion in output losses this year due to trade
and value chain disruption, among other factors.