The relationship between the Bretton Woods institutions and Africa began in the 1980s as a result of the international debt crisis which affected the African continent negatively. The African continent approached the Bretton Woods institutions to salvage its economic situation. Consequently, the...

In 2021, the G20 committed to reallocate USD 100 billion of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) recent allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) to low-income and vulnerable middle-income countries. However, most of these donations have been made to the IMF's Poverty Reduction and Growth...

"If you boil a kettle twice today, you will have used five times more electricity than a person in Mali uses in a whole year. How can that be possible? Decades after the colonial powers withdrew Africa is still struggling to catch up with the rest of the world. When the same colonists withdrew...