G7 leaders open to cancelling African leaders’ debts- Obama

US President Barack Obama said on Monday the group of 7 nations (G7) was open to cancelling debts of African countries that would have been contracted and squandered by leaders.

BY JOHN MOKWETSI IN WASHINGTON DC

Speaking at the opening of a three- day Presidential Summit of the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders in Washington Obama said countries were hamstrung by the debts.

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