Twenty-thousand people are affected in Benin. In Guinea,6,000 people are affected by flooding in the capital Conakry and 10,000 people in the city of Kindia, where three rivers have overflowed their banks.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

What was happening was, these banks were not being watched carefully enough; their capital requirements were not enough for the kind of assets they were investing.

当初是因为,对这些银行监管不力,它们的资本水平没有达到,投资这类资产的要求

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What we've seen is a testing of the system -that we have regulatory requirements, that banks have enough capital -but this regulation is challenging because it's being stressed right now.

我们列举的这些案例都是对银行体系的考验,我们需要加强监管,以确保银行有充足的资本,但监管确实是一项艰巨的任务,因为现在面对的压力更大了

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