Diversified economy

THE COVID-19 pandemic seems to have spared Africa the worse cases of mass infections and resulting deaths, however the continent’s economy is a different story.

Especially when looking at the smaller countries that survive on a limited range of active industries or resources to offer, the virus has caused problematic consequences.

The diversified economies such as that of Ivory Coast, Senegal, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, have been slowed but not completely halted by the effects of the pandemic, due to their economies upheld by a multitude of sectors.

However, those countries held aloft by a central industry, such as oil producers Algeria, Angola, and Nigeria, and tourism-based economies such as Morocco and Tunisia, have faced an increasingly difficult reality.