The EU should back an African campaign for a new round of debt relief linked to green investment and development, Ghana’s former president will urge policymakers in Brussels on Thursday (2 October).
In his speech ahead of November’s EU-African Union summit in Angola, Nana Akufo-Addo called for “a new global debt relief initiative — ambitious, equitable, and tailored to our realities,” adding that a debt forgiveness programme should be targeted “to unlock resources for development.”
That should be “a programme of ‘Debt Relief for Green Investment and Resilience’ — linking debt cancellation directly to investments in climate adaptation and sustainable growth.”
Akufo-Addo, who stood down as Ghana’s…