The history of debt in Africa as a whole

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World Bank Board Rejects Paper On Poorests' Debt Burden
By Pratap Chatterjee, Inter Press Service, Harare, 14 April 1995.
The Lusaka Declaration and Areas of Action
19-21 May 1999. Outcome of the conference attended by delegates from debt and jubilee 2000 structures from southern, east and west African countries.
Declaration and Resolutions of the African Delegation at the International Meeting ‘The dictatorship of Financial Markets? Another world is possible’
By ATTAC in partnership with CADTM/COCAD (Committee for the Cancellation of Third World debt), DAWN (Development of alternatives for Women in a New Era), the World Forum of alternatives, CC AMI/MAI (Coordination of Committees against MAI's clones). Organized in Paris 24-25-26 June 1999.
Egyptian Writer Slams Donors
By Lewis Machipisa, IPS, 4 August 1999. Egyptian writer and political activist, Nawal El Saadawi, criticizes the Zimbabwe aid package set by the IMF in Harare.
IMF blames African nations for improper use of loans
By Samuel Nduati, The Nation (Nairobi), 21 August 1999. [IMF attributes Africa's misery to its own shortcomings rather than neocolonialism.]
Botswana Wants New Approach Toward Africa's Debt
Panafrican News Agency, 30 August 1999. President Festus Mogae calls for a new approach toward debt alleviation in Africa, saying previous attempts to solve the problem were ‘too little too late.’