African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD)

African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) Influencing African governments to institute and implement policies and practices to promote development and poverty eradication.

AFRODAD is a Pan African civil society organisation born of a desire to secure lasting solutions to Africa's mounting debt problem which has impacted negatively on the continent's development process. AFRODAD believes that the debt crisis, apart from being a political, economic and structural issue, has an intrinsic link to human rights. This forms the guiding philosophy for its work on Debt and the need to have African external debts cancelled for poverty eradication and attainment of social and economic justice. Furthermore, the principle of equity must of necessity apply and in this regard, responsibility of creditors and debtors in the debt crisis should be acknowledged and assumed by the parties.

AFRODAD at : “Session on FFD Post-Seville Strategies in Turbulent Geopolitics”, our Executive Director highlighted th...
01/10/2026

AFRODAD at : “Session on FFD Post-Seville Strategies in Turbulent Geopolitics”, our Executive Director highlighted the current debt situation facing Africa, emphasising that debt has a human face. It impacts people’s lives and it’s more than just numbers, it is fundamentally a governance issue.
She highlighted the case for this through unfair credit ratings, noting the bias that Africa faces in global financial markets, as well as the unfair interest rate premiums imposed on African countries.
She emphasised why the UN Framework Convention on Debt is needed now more than ever to address these systemic challenges.
She also highlighted the need to:
🔹 Strengthen collaboration with the African Union.
🔹 Reform the Bretton Woods Institutions to create a fairer global financial architecture. World Bank Group
🔹 Monitor and track the implementation of the Common African Position on Debt (CAP) and ensure that its commitments translate into action.
As she put it: “We cannot use the master’s same tools to dismantle the system against us!”

01/10/2026

way back to AFRODAD’s origins.
With us is our amazing Board Chair, , sharing the journey with us. We quote: “African nations and civil society must shift from simply raising their voices to actively making the rules. We need to move from a point of thinking about another cycle of debt but a development cycle that will respond to the needs of our African people”.
Watch now, and have a wonderful day.

📢 Dakar, nous venons demain pour ,avec notre brillante session parallèle (comme toujours 👌🏾💯):«Mettre fin à la porte to...
30/09/2026

📢 Dakar, nous venons demain pour ,
avec notre brillante session parallèle (comme toujours 👌🏾💯):
«Mettre fin à la porte tournante: dette odieuse, flux financiers illicites (FFI) et agenda africain pour la justice fiscale».
La dette souveraine et les FFI sont généralement considérés comme 2 défis distincts, pris en charge par des institutions, des mouvements de plaidoyer et des processus multilatéraux différents. Pourtant, ils sont étroitement liés. Dans une grande partie de l’Afrique, les emprunts contractés pour combler un déficit de financement du développement estimé à environ 200 milliards de dollars américains par an ont, dans de nombreux cas documentés, servi à financer la fuite des capitaux, la corruption et l’enrichissement des élites plutôt que le développement. A mesure que le service de la dette absorbe une part croissante des budgets nationaux, les gouvernements sont contraints de choisir entre rembourser les créanciers et financer les soins de santé, l’éducation et la résilience climatique.
Cette table ronde de 90 minutes réunira des représentants des gouvernements et des institutions régionales, des universitaires, des membres de la société civile, des spécialistes de la justice en matière de dette et de fiscalité, des juristes et des partenaires du développement. Ensemble, ils examineront comment la dette odieuse et les FFI se renforcent mutuellement, et ce que les États africains, l’Union africaine, les parlements et la société civile peuvent faire pour y remédier.
🗓️ Jeudi 1er octobre 2026
🕞 De 14 h à 15 h 30 GMT
Inscribed-vous: https://o2o.to/i/IvgrqR

📢 Dakar here we come tomorrow for , with our brilliant side session (as usual👌🏾💯):"Closing the Revolving Door: Odious D...
30/09/2026

📢 Dakar here we come tomorrow for ,
with our brilliant side session (as usual👌🏾💯):
"Closing the Revolving Door: Odious Deb, Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) and Africa's Tax Justice Agenda"
Sovereign debt and IFFs are usually treated as separate challenges, handled by different institutions, advocacy communities and multilateral processes, yet they are deeply connected. Across much of Africa, borrowing undertaken to close a development financing gap of around USD 200 billion a year has, in many documented cases, ended up financing capital flight, corruption and elite enrichment instead of development. As debt-service obligations take up a growing share of national budgets, governments are forced to choose between paying creditors and funding healthcare, education and climate resilience.
This 90-minute panel brings together government, regional institutions, academia, civil society, debt & tax justice experts, legal practitioners and development partners to look at how odious debt and IFFs reinforce each other, and what African States, the African Union, parliaments and civil society can do about both.
🗓️ Thursday, 1 October 2026
🕞 14:00 to 15:30 GMT
📍 Dakar, Senegal
Join virtually: https://o2o.to/i/IvgrqR

30/09/2026

, we start from our Executive Director’s Desk .
We quote: “For us to have a common African position is what has been missing… It is not just a document. It’s not a blueprint. It’s a mandate that we have given ourselves as African people, as African citizens, backed by our states, and our institutions.”
As Africa advances the Common African Position on Debt, collective ownership, solidarity and a shared voice are central to turning the position into meaningful action.
🎥 Watch the full video⤵️

👉🏽You could be the one we’re looking for- or you know a consultant/firm who can nail this work💯.ASSIGNMENT: To undertake...
29/09/2026

👉🏽You could be the one we’re looking for- or you know a consultant/firm who can nail this work💯.
ASSIGNMENT: To undertake a research paper on “Tax expenditures, Illicit Financial Flows and
Revenue losses in Africa: Implications for Domestic Resource Mobilisation and Debt sustainability”.
🔗 Access the full ToR and application details: https://bit.ly/4z1ilR6
✅Apply today or share widely.

Episode 2 | 🎙️ The “Debt Cancellation Is Not Enough” episode discusses why cancelling debt alone cannot deliver economi...
28/09/2026

Episode 2 | 🎙️
The “Debt Cancellation Is Not Enough” episode discusses why cancelling debt alone cannot deliver economic justice in Africa. It explores how colonial power relations, unequal decision-making, and extractive economic systems continue to shape the global financial architecture.
The conversation also explores what reparative justice could look like, from restructuring global finance and redistributing financial power to reclaiming policy autonomy.

Joining the conversation is Prof. , Associate Professor of Political Economy and Chair of Social Sciences at The Africa Institute. Drawing on themes from his book, How the IMF Strangles Africa, we discuss the role of the IMF and World Bank in perpetuating debt and economic dependency.

🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4iYr3uF

🎙️ Decolonising Africa’s Climate Debt: From Voluntary Aid to Enforceable Reparations.Across Africa, the sovereign debt c...
25/09/2026

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Decolonising Africa’s Climate Debt: From Voluntary Aid to Enforceable Reparations.
Across Africa, the sovereign debt crisis and the climate emergency operate as reinforcing burdens. As African countries spend millions rebuilding after climate disasters and often take on expensive external loans to do so, the fundamental question remains: Who is legally and historically accountable?

In Episode 3 of our joint podcast series with the African Futures Lab, Riska Koopman (former International Public & Private Finance- IPPF - AFRODAD) joins Dr. Patrick Toussaint - Research Advisor (African Futures Lab) and Nciko wa Nciko - Climate Justice Advisor in East and Southern Africa and its lead advisor on human rights in Madagascar (Amnesty International) to dissect the mechanics of ecological debt and reparative justice.
Key insights from the episode:
🔹Atmospheric Overshoot: How centuries of colonial fossil fuel extraction placed the Global North in atmospheric debt to the Global South.
🔹 Moving Beyond Loss & Damage: Why voluntary climate funds fail to enforce legal liability, and why true climate justice demands systemic debt cancellation.
African governments cannot address a climate crisis they did not cause while burdened by debts they cannot sustain.

🎧 Listen to the full episode: Link

23/09/2026

On , we first hear from our Executive Director, Janet Zhou (Jay)
"I believe this is AFRODAD's moment. After 30 years of holding the line on debt justice, the question before Africa is no longer whether our voice matters, but whether we will use it to write the rules instead of receiving them. To our partners, our movements, and our people: join hands with us, and let us make Africa a rule maker, not a rule taker, in the global financial architecture".
Watch more: https://bit.ly/3T3XfCx

🎙️ As Thomas Sankara warned in 1987‼️, repaying illegitimate debt forces African countries to finance the architects of ...
22/09/2026

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As Thomas Sankara warned in 1987‼️, repaying illegitimate debt forces African countries to finance the architects of their original conquest all over again. 🚫To break this cycle, the De-Colonial Political Economy Framework addresses 4 core pillars: (i) Confronting Racial Capitalism, (ii) applying Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), (iii) reforming unequal voting power in the IMF, and (iv) asserting Epistemic Justice over how financial narratives are controlled.

🎧 Stream Episode 1 now to learn why ending the debt cycle requires structural global reform rather than temporary austerity band-aids.
Guest: Dr. Marie Louise (International Economic Lawyer, Legal Scholar and Researcher)

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