Oxfam and more than 200 other groups have
called for cancellation of all debt payments from
developing countries so that suspended debt
payments don’t accrue into the future.
“Livelihoods will be wiped out in a way we have
never seen before,” Ahunna Eziakonwa, the
United Nations Development Program regional
director for Africa, has said. The U.N. Economic
Commission for Africa has said oil-exporting
nations like Nigeria and Angola, two of Africa’s