The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says sub-Saharan Africa is set to record the slowest economic growth of any world region this year as the continent struggles to bounce back from a pandemic-induced downturn.

It calls on wealthy countries to step up to ease access to vital vaccines and make financing available to Africa, where the global health crisis and its economic fallout plunged 32 million people into extreme poverty last year.

Atiewin Mbillah-Lawson reports.