No climate change cash until Zimbabwe clears $10bn debt, France tells Mugabe

Kayode Ogundele
Kayode Ogundele
Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe

France says Zimbabwe is not going to benefit from the Green Climate Funding (GCF) which the United Nations set for Africa until it clears its ballooning international debt.

GCF is a global climate fund which was established to assist developing countries to develop and manage climate change programmes.

The fund which was set up in 2011 and is being spearheaded by France intends to mobilize $100 billion by 2020.

Zimbabwe is among of African countries which are bearing the effects of climate change but its $10 billion debt it owes to the multilateral institutions according to France is going to make it difficult for the country to get climate change grants.

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