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Masisi wants fairer debt deals

Speaking out: Masisi addressing a session of the US Africa Leaders Summit on Tuesday PIC: MBONGENI MGUNI
Speaking out: Masisi addressing a session of the US Africa Leaders Summit on Tuesday PIC: MBONGENI MGUNI

WASHINGTON DC: Botswana and Africa need fairer debt deals that do not focus repayments on commodities and punish missed payments, President Mokgweetsi Masisi told an audience at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, USA on Tuesday.

Masisi, some Cabinet ministers, and senior government officials were in the American capital for the US Africa Leaders Summit called by President Joe Biden involving more than 40 other African heads of state.

Masisi gave a lecture at the Brookings Institution, a non-profit public policy research organisation.


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