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#Adesina criticizes #opaque #loans linked to #Africa's #resources

The head of the #African #Development #Bank is calling for an end to loans given in exchange for the continent's #rich #oil #reserves or essential #minerals used in #smartphones and #electric car #batteries.

This type of #borrowing has plunged many #African #countries into a #financial #crisis.

“They're just bad, first and foremost, because you can't value assets properly,” #Akinwumi Adesina said in an interview with The Associated #Press in #Lagos, #Nigeria, last week.

"If you have #minerals or #oil under the ground, how do you find a #price for a long-term #contract? It's a challenge," he explains.

Linking future revenues from #natural #resource #exports to loan #repayments is often presented as a way for recipients to obtain f#inancing for #infrastructure #projects and for lenders to reduce the #risk of not getting their money back.

The shift to #renewable #energy and #electric #vehicles has caused a spike in demand for essential minerals, which favors this type of lending. The agreement between #China and the #Congo illustrates this well. Beijing thus exploits the world's largest #reserves of #cobalt, a mineral used to #manufacture #lithium #batteries.

French fr.africanews.com/2024/03/12/a

English fr-africanews-com.translate.go

Africanews · Adesina critique les prêts opaques liés aux ressources de l'Afrique | AfricanewsLe directeur de la Banque africaine de développement appelle à la fin des prêts accordés en échange des riches réserves de pétrole du continent ou des minéraux essentiels utilisés dans les smartphones et les batteries des voitures électriques.