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President Muhammadu Buhari is currently attending a virtual United Nations High-Level event on Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19 and beyond.
He was invited by the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to the event, which is jointly hosted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and Prime Minister Andrew Holness of Jamaica.
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The event brings together world leaders and international organizations in a joint initiative to sharpen and accelerate the global response to the economic and human impacts of COVID-19.
It also seeks to advance concrete solutions to the development emergency.
More than 50 world leaders including the African Union Chair and South Africa President, Cyril Ramaphosa, are in attendance.
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