Quoting the late American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr., Songwe said Africa needs to remain awake and help find solutions to the pandemic as restrictions put in place to curtail the virus begin to be eased.

“This is a time to be bold. It is a time when we need to come together to ask if we are responding to the call of the youth,” she said.
 

The Coca-Cola System is committing $13m to support the continent through the various phases of the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, TCCF has granted just under $4m to international and local NGOs, such as the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and Amref Health to procure and distribute personal protective equipment (PPEs) and other critical needs for frontline workers and to help fund ICU-enabled ambulances for example in Mauritius and Madagascar.

The issue of taxation, corporate governance and development financing is one that needs to be addressed by all stakeholders and appropriate measures enforced and implemented.  At the 21st Nation Leadership Forum aired on June 18, 2020 on NTV themed, "Financing Africa through Sustainable Taxation," a team of expert panelists discussed development financing for Africa, the effect of tax evasion on developing countries, the need to adopt sustainable taxation and measures taken to prevent such losses.