Eight former African heads of state have thrown their weight behind a call for government leaders attending the G20 summit to support a comprehensive plan to rescue African states from crippling debt that is undermining their development.
On the sidelines of the G20 events in Cape Town this week, eight former heads of state — Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria), Macky Sall (Senegal), Joyce Banda (Malawi), Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (Tanzania), Ameenah Gurib-Fakim (Mauritius), Hailemariam Desalegn (Ethiopia), Nana Akufo-Addo (Ghana) and Yemi Osinbajo (former vice-president: Nigeria) — came together to call for re-engineering of global debt markets to help Africa...
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