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Cyril Ramaphosa Renews Calls For Urgent Debt Relief for Africa. But is Anyone Listening?

by Eric Claude Olander

South African President and Chair of the African Union Cyril Ramaphosa issued yet another urgent appeal for the international community to provide immediate debt relief for Africa. “Urgent and collective action is needed there to stave off that crisis and to maintain the invaluable social gains that the continent has made,” implored President Ramaphosa in a column published yesterday in Financial Times.

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