Debt justice and the 2017 general election
Ahead of the 2017 general election, Jubilee Debt Campaign have produced a short guide and suggested question for four vital issues: The UK’s role in Africa’s debt crisis The global debt…
Ahead of the 2017 general election, Jubilee Debt Campaign have produced a short guide and suggested question for four vital issues: The UK’s role in Africa’s debt crisis The global debt…
Update 26 April: The Managing Director of the IMF Christine Lagarde has responded to this statement here Campaigners in Mozambique have called for secret debts to be cancelled before the…
• Government external debt payments reach highest level in the last decade following commodity price falls and rising value of the US dollar • Figures released before US Federal Reserve…
• Comment on revelation that Gambia’s debt is $1 billion The Gambian government have said that former President Yahya Jammeh stole at least $50 million, and left the government with a…
The Mozambique government has said it will not make a $60 million interest payment due on 18 January On 17 January, campaigners from the Jubilee Debt Campaign handed in a…
A new debt crisis has begun in impoverished countries. The UK needs to take responsibility now for the debt contracted under English law. Read the 4 page briefing here Summary…
Reacting to reports that the government of Mozambique has announced that it cannot pay its private external debt, Sarah-Jayne Clifton, Director of the Jubilee Debt Campaign, said: “Mozambique’s unpayable debt…
World Bank admits to breaking rules to guarantee high interest Ghana debt, but misleads in attempt to justify the decision.
Lender accused of guaranteeing profits for speculators The World Bank has been accused of helping to fuel a new debt crisis in Ghana after it was revealed it has broken…
A group of 26 organisations in Mozambique have asserted that the $1.86 billion of the country’s debts at the centre of a growing international controversy were contracted illegally and should…