Africa's debt largely owed to private financial groups, Eurobonds, and oil creditors: scholar

STORY: Africa's debt largely owed to private financial groups, Eurobonds, and oil creditors: scholar DATELINE: July 24, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:46 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: SOUNDBITE (English): BEATRICE MATIRI-MAISORI, Senior economics lecturer, Riara University, Kenya STORYLINE: Beatrice Matiri-Maisori, a senior economics lecturer at Kenya's Riara University, said the figures and percentages revealed by recent studies clearly indicate that Africa's external debt is largely owed to private financial groups, Eurobonds, and oil creditors, not to China. She added that, with loans from China, an interconnected Africa is being built. SOUNDBITE (English): BEATRICE MATIRI-MAISORI, Senior economics lecturer, Riara University, Kenya "A greater percentage of Africa's external debt is really by private financial groups and Eurobonds, and the oil creditors. There are always conversations around (saying that) China is having a lot more to do with the debt and the 'debt diplomacy' from China, but really

U.S. think tank offers A-bomb photos to Hiroshima museum

U.S. think tank offers A-bomb photos to Hiroshima museum

Photo taken April 13, 2016, shows an image taken from an aircraft soon after the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of Hiroshima, with numbers given to key facilities in the western Japanese city and the degrees of their destruction in percentages. It was revealed May 19 that Washington think tank, the Stimson Center, has offered to donate a set of the preserved photo panels used to brief American leaders on the impact of the atomic bomb attacks on Japan, including the one seen in this photo, to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum to help remind visitors that nuclear weapons must never be used again. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo