{"id":242378,"date":"2026-08-27T20:18:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-poor-debt-data-weak-oversight-threaten-africas-debt-management-experts\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T20:18:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:18:59","slug":"africa-poor-debt-data-weak-oversight-threaten-africas-debt-management-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-poor-debt-data-weak-oversight-threaten-africas-debt-management-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Poor Debt Data, Weak Oversight Threaten Africa&#8217;s Debt Management &#8211; &#8211; Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">They spoke at the sixth African Conference on Debt and Development (AfCoDD VI), organised by the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) in Nairobi, Kenya. .<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">African countries need better systems for tracking public debt and stronger parliamentary scrutiny of government borrowing, said some development experts said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">They spoke at the sixth African Conference on Debt and Development (AfCoDD VI), organised by the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608270585.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They spoke at the sixth African Conference on Debt and Development (AfCoDD VI), organised by the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) in Nairobi, Kenya. . African countries need better systems for tracking public debt and stronger parliamentary scrutiny of government borrowing, said some development experts said on Wednesday. They spoke at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":242379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6287,9880,6861,5060,7272,257,393,15265,8943,254,7002,13849],"class_list":["post-242378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-data","tag-debt","tag-experts","tag-management","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-oversight","tag-poor","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threaten","tag-weak"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}