O. Diagana: “Development, debts, putsches… What the World Bank should do in Africa”

2023-10-09 17:45:55

Our key guest from the RFI / Jeune Afrique economy is Ousmane Diagana, vice-president of the World Bank, responsible for West and Central Africa. This institution is at the heart of the news at the end of 2023: the climate crisis, the energy crisis, the debt crisis, political changes in Africa, the new relationships between the West and “the Global South” . Interviewed by Bruno Faure (Radio France Internationale) and Aurélie M’Bida (Jeune Afrique), this international civil servant born and raised in Mauritania directs the activities of the World Bank in 22 countries on the continent. He provides his analyzes on the macroeconomic situation in Africa, loans and donations to the poorest countries, their debt, financing of the energy transition, employment and investment by the World Bank in the energy sector. education, health or technology, the reasons and consequences of recent coups in Niger, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso or Gabon. The program is punctuated by recorded interventions by Ajay Banga (new president of the World Bank), Nadia Fettah Alaoui (Moroccan Minister of the Economy), Mamadi Doumbouya (president of the Guinean transition) and Broulaye Bagayoko (permanent secretary of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts).
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