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Nobel laureate says debt relief no panacea for Africa

SIRTE: Writing off Africa’s debt, boosting aid and improving trade conditions are not enough to bring the continent out of poverty, Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai said on Tuesday. Maathai said Africans must also fight for good governance, an end to corruption, and for education that gives citizens more than just basic schooling. “We must continue to remove the obstacles and causes of poverty by getting down to the root causes,” Maathai told Reuters at an African Union (AU) summit in Libya. “There is no reason why we can’t raise our moral consciousness to a level where we say it’s unacceptable that a dictator in Africa steals money from his people and brings it to a country like Britain where it is protected.” reuters

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