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Ghana’s former President’s experience adds to pressure for global credit reforms
Former Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo described the debt restructuring that dominated his second term as ‘one of the darkest and most painful episodes’ of his presidency as he made a pitch for a new debt relief programme in Brussels last week.
African leaders are set to put debt relief high on the agenda at a European Union-African Union summit in Angola in November.
In a speech at a thinktank in Brussels on 1 October, Akufo-Addo called for European support for ‘a new global debt relief initiative – ambitious, equitable and tailored to our…