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I think I'll check Pambazuka News and AllAfrica.com next week.

See, these debts weren't just dropped. I'm interested in the conditions that must be attached.

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The deal on Saturday was expected to ease the 18 poorest countries' annual debt burden by $1.5 billion. They are Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guyana, Honduras, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. All must take anticorruption measures.

Finance Chiefs Cancel Debt of 18 Nations
By ALAN COWELL

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