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How Long Can African Leaders Keep Repeating Themselves on Debt?

by Cobus van Staden

This week saw yet another African leader (this time my own president, Cyril Ramaphosa,) calling for international measures to soften the current debt crisis confronting poor countries in Africa and beyond. None of these measures are outrageous. Considering that seven out of the top 10 fastest-growing economies in 2020 are African, it doesn’t even need to be seen as as measures to help Africa – it could be framed as measures to support global growth. 

And yet, judging by the anemic  international response to the debt crisis so far, they’re almost sure to be ignored.

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