Global creditors agree debt relief for poor countries hit by pandemic
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WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) - Major international creditors will suspend debt payments this year for the world's poorest countries, who will be hit hardest by the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic that has sparked the steepest downturn in the global economy since the 1930s.French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said some 76 countries, including 40 in sub-Saharan Africa, would be eligible to have debt payments worth a combined $20 billion suspended by official and private creditors, with a..