{"id":196749,"date":"2025-04-25T11:12:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T09:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-sub-saharan-africas-economic-performance-being-dragged-down-by-nigeria-angola-south-africa-world-bank\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T11:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T09:12:37","slug":"africa-sub-saharan-africas-economic-performance-being-dragged-down-by-nigeria-angola-south-africa-world-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-sub-saharan-africas-economic-performance-being-dragged-down-by-nigeria-angola-south-africa-world-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa&#8217;s Economic Performance Being Dragged Down By Nigeria, Angola, South Africa &#8211; World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>&#8220;Excluding these countries, the rest of the subcontinent is expected to grow at 4.6 percent in 2025 and speed up to 5.7 percent in 2026-27,&#8221; the World Bank said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/ext\/en\/home\" rel=\"noopener\">World Bank<\/a><\/strong> on Thursday said economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to edge up from 3.3 per cent in 2024 to 3.5 per cent in 2025 and further accelerate to 4.3 per cent in 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">However, the bank said the region&#8217;s economic performance is still dragged down by some of its largest countries&#8211;namely, Angola, Nigeria, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504250067.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Excluding these countries, the rest of the subcontinent is expected to grow at 4.6 percent in 2025 and speed up to 5.7 percent in 2026-27,&#8221; the World Bank said. The World Bank on Thursday said economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to edge up from 3.3 per cent in 2024 to 3.5 per cent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":196750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,6287,3941,4263,7089,13515,3576,257,4687,8553,5069,254,15299,5093],"class_list":["post-196749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-bank","tag-dragged","tag-economic","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-performance","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-subsaharan","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}