Fears over 250,000 jobs as furlough scheme ends.
- A militant group in Nigeria's oil-producing Delta region has threatened to resume attacks amid rising insecurity and disagreements over the share of oil wealth communities should get.
- A quarter of a million British jobs are expected to be lost this summer from the winding down of the furlough scheme, as businesses begin to pick up the tab for sidelined workers’ wages.
- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected to complete the process of a new allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) by the end of August.