This is a guest post by Sunit Bagree, Senior Campaigns Officer, Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA), based on a talk given at the Jubilee Debt Campaign event ‘Breaking the chains: 1998…
The IMF and World Bank have agreed some positive changes to their system for monitoring debts of impoverished countries, though some large issues have been ignored. The system, known as…
Eighteen organisations from the UK and Global South have written to British Minister for International Development Justine Greening calling for support for a range of measures to prevent debt crises…
Campaigners say new figures emphasise the responsibility of creditors and financial sector for creating debt crises Figures show UK government does not have a debt crisis – but the UK…
The Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development have called for an official public audit into the country’s debt.
A cross-party group of MPs has released a report into UK Export Finance – or what we call the Department for Dodgy Deals. The report, covered on the front page…
The UK government backed multi-million pound loans used by Zimbabwe to purchase British military aircraft that were used in the Democratic Republic of Congo conflict, investigations have revealed for the…
Newly uncovered documents reveal that Zimbabwe’s £210 million debt to the UK includes loans from Tony Blair’s government to Zimbabwe’s police force while they were engaged in internal repression.
