PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan on Tuesday addressed the 41st Ordinary Summit of SADC Heads of State and Government, calling for debt relief to help developing nations overcome the effects of Covid-19 pandemic.
The Tanzanian President underlined the need for regional leaders to speak with one voice in asking for debt relief or extension of repayment time for African countries.
The move, she argued, would help the countries recover from the shocks of the global pandemic, in particular to effectively re-build their devastated economies.
Her call stems from the fact that the Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the global economy, but the poorer countries have been hardest hit by the virus and face a debt crisis.
The pandemic has regre…
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