Development finance experts have urged the Ghanaian government to ring-fence any fiscal savings emerging from debt relief or restructuring agreements specifically for the protection of water sources and the fight against illegal mining, warning that without binding allocation rules, freed resources will be absorbed by recurrent expenditure rather than directed at the country’s worsening environmental and water security challenges.
The call was made at a press briefing organised by the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) on the sidelines of the 39th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly, which convened in Addis Ababa on February 14 and 15 under the theme “Assuring…