Virus-Stricken African Currencies Are Set for Even More Pain

  • Kenya, Angola, Zambia’s currencies have all hit record lows
  • Egypt pound increasingly overvalued, rand may get hit further
Photographer: Luis Tato/Bloomberg
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Few emerging-market currencies have been spared as the spread of the coronavirus causes investors to dump riskier assets and the dollar to surge. But Africa has been hit harder than most -- and the signs are there’s worse to come.