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Speaker leads debt forgiveness campaign for developing countries

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Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye, is leading the campaign for debt forgiveness of developing economies by international development partners.

Speaking on behalf of the Conference of Speakers and Heads of African Parliament (COSAP), at the meeting with 21 international partners, including; ambassadors and development partners as part of the Debt Cancellation Campaign Initiative (DCCI), Prof Mike Oquaye urged the development partners to consider cancelling debts for developing countries in Africa.

According to him, there was an urgent need for the forgiveness of debt since African countries were facing enormous challenges including, increase in health expenses and other allied expenses, shortfalls in petroleum, slowdown of foreign direct investments, reduction in trade volumes, decline in international price of crude oil, exchange rate volatility and debt service difficulties.


Mr Tsutomu Himeno, the Japanese Ambassador to Ghana, and Chairman of Heads of Mission of Development Partners, speaking on behalf of his colleagues, said developed nations were opened to discussing debt cancellation for Africa, taking the total sum of the COVID-19 pandemic on all countries in the world.


Mr Ian Walker, the British High Commissioner, also expressed the UK’s preparedness to work towards easing Africa’s economic difficulties.

Mrs Stephanie Sullivan, the American Ambassador to Ghana, cited interventions offered by the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) programme and how they cured the ills of debt burden in African countries.

She urged African countries to refer to the lessons learnt from the interventions to avoid future occurrences.

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Responding to the concerns about the HIPC programme, Speaker Oquaye indicated that the support from the Programme of Action to Mitigate Social Costs Adjustments (PAMSCAD) was not enough to sustain African countries and to elevate them from dependents to real partners in the development relations.

He, therefore, urged Development Partners to embrace legislative diplomacy as a tool in engaging the continent on debt forgiveness.

In the wake of the pandemic, the World Bank forecasts that Sub-Saharan Africa would collectively fall into recession for the first time in 25 years.

The World Bank statistically projected that between 26 and 39 million people in the region were at a high risk of falling into extreme poverty.

The Jubilee Debt Campaign report also indicated that twenty African countries now faced increased difficulties with 50 percent of African countries spending more on debt repayments than they did on healthcare and education, which were key for human capital development.

Prior to the pandemic, the debt levels of numerous African countries were reaching unsustainable levels; according to information from the IMF, debt-to-GDP ratios in African countries have increased from an average of 43 percent to 62 percent from 2013 to 2018; 22 African countries have debt-to-GDP ratios of over 60 percent, the threshold set by the African Monetary Cooperation Programme for prudent debt levels.

African countries are said to be on the brink of a debt crisis as they tackle the effects of the most devastating economic and social disasters in history.

Since the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, the frailties of many African countries have been exposed and according to Jubilee Debt Campaign, twenty African countries are already in debt distress or at a high risk of it.

DCCI is an initiative by the Conference of Speakers and Heads of African Parliament (COSAP) to advocate Africa’s debt to be forgiven due to the huge impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Africa’s economy.


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