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AllAfrica: Cotonou Market Entrepreneurs Speak of Debt Difficulties and AFAWA Expectations Part 1 (Featuring Angelique Kidjo)

20 December, 2019

The women entrepreneurs of the Cotonou market testify to their difficulties and their expectations of the Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa. "We often have no choice but to go into debt with other creditors so that we can pay the terms of the principal loan."

About AFAWA
AFAWA (Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa) is the Bank’s pan-African nitiative that seeks to reduce the estimated $42 billion finance gap for women-owned small and medium-sized enterprises on the continent.
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