The Somalia Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Consortium, comprising international civil society organisations and government officials met during a high-level event at the AU heads of state summit to voice calls for the debt cancellation for Somalia.They say this would enable the Horn of African nation to rebuild its war-torn infrastructure and work on resettling millions of people uprooted by conflict.
"Somalia requires cooperation because the debt cancelation would help us to ignite our national development plan," Gamal Hassan, Somalia's Minister of Planning, Investment and Economy, said.
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