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Can Africa's informal economies survive lockdown?
The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.
In Africa’s developing countries, people are struggling under lockdown, unable to work or get food in the massive informal economies across the continent, where eight in ten jobs are not in formal employment. Now, lockdowns in such cities as Lagos, Monrovia, Johannesburg and Kampala are causing devastation, as we'll hear from people living there. Oksana Abboud runs StreetNet International, and explains why street vendors and other informal economy workers particularly suffer from lockdown, while Liberia’s former Trade and Commerce Minister Axel Addy is calling for a solution to the virus outside of shutting everything down.
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