From a conference that is part of a process of movement-building, within and beyond Africa, against the crippling impact of debt on billions of people across the world, and for a new, people-centred genuine form of development

WE demand the unconditional, immediate and total cancellation of Third World debts, beginning with odious and illegitimate debts; and oppose the HIPC initiative as a grand scam, a self-serving scheme to push HIPCs into further debt dependence.