Africa Must Turn the Aid Cut Into a Wake-Up Call, Says Zambia's President
22:12 05.05.2025 (Updated: 22:44 05.05.2025)
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Africa Must Turn the Aid Cut Into a Wake-Up Call, Says Zambia's President
The decline in US aid to Africa should be a catalyst—not a crisis—for the continent to redefine its development path, argued Hakainde Hichilema in Politico.
“For years, the US generously contributed a quarter of all global aid spending in African countries,” Hichilema noted, with 16 countries relying on it for at least 1% of their GDP. “The cuts to the [USAID] are a devastating blow for Africa,” he wrote, “But [these figures] are also a timely reminder to reflect on our continent’s continued dependence on foreign aid.”
He urged African countries to shift from raw resource exports to value-added production, especially in sectors like rare earth metals—"needed to power the world’s most sought-after technologies"—to break free from extractive, colonial-era economic models.
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