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How Africa Loses Over $40b Annually to the Rest of the World-Report

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May 20, 2017
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Last month, Buhari’s minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh and Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State   were full of excitement for securing  $4.5 billion loan from China to buy farming tools.

 The Chinese were willing to supply this loan for a long-term basis, 20 years credit at an interest rate of 1 percent per annum, they old the president.

What they failed to add however is what Nigeria, like other African countries that receive loan and other benefits from foreign power, stands to lose.

A new report has put this Greek gift in context.

According to a new research by Global Justice Now, an international NGO addressing justice and equality issues around the world, much more wealth is leaving the world’s most impoverished continent than is entering it.

The study, which examines total flow into and out of Africa, finds that African countries receive $161.6 billion in resources such as loans, remittances and aid each year, but lose $203 billion through other means including tax avoidance, debt payments and resource extraction, creating an annual net financial deficit of over $40 billion.
The report Honest Accounts 2017: How the world profits from Africa’s wealth, shows that according to the most recent figures available in 2015, African countries received around $19 billion in aid but over three times that much ($68 billion) was taken out in capital flight, mainly by multinational companies deliberately misreporting the value of their imports or exports to recuse tax.

African governments received $32.8 billion in loans but paid $18 billion in debt interest and principal payments, with the overall level of debt rising rapidly.

An estimated $29 billion a year was stolen from Africa in illegal logging, fishing and the trade in wildlife and plants.

Tim Jones, economist from the Jubilee Debt Campaign, said:

“The African continent is rich, but the rest of the world profits from its wealth through unjust debt payments, multinational company profits and hiding proceeds from tax avoidance and corruption.”

Aisha Dodwell, a campaigner with Global Justice Now said:

“There’s such a powerful narrative in Western societies that Africa is poor and that it needs our help. This research shows that what African countries really need is for the rest of the world to stop systematically looting them.  While the form of colonial plunder may have changed over time, its basic nature remains unchanged.”
Martin Drewry, director of Health Poverty Action said:

“To end poverty we need to focus our efforts on preventing the policies and practices that are causing it.  That means we need to stop our tax havens facilitating the theft of billions, clamp down on illegal activities and compensate African countries for the impact of climate change that they did not cause. “

Bernard Adaba, policy analyst with ISODEC in Ghana said:

“’Development’ is a lost cause in Africa while we are haemorrhaging billions every year to extractive industries, western tax havens and illegal logging and fishing. Some serious structural changes need to be made to promote economic policies that enable African countries to best serve the needs of their people rather than simply being cash cows for Western corporations and governments. The bleeding of Africa must stop”
The report is published by a coalition of UK and African organisations, including Global Justice Now, Health Poverty Action and Jubilee Debt Campaign, makes a series of recommendations as to how the system extracting wealth from Africa could be dismantled. These recommendations include promoting economic policies that lead to equitable development, preventing companies with subsidiaries based in tax havens from operating in African countries, and transforming aid into a process that genuinely benefits Africa.

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