The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) has urged citizens and leaders across Africa to work to ensure that the continent’s development objectives are achieved in the next 10 years or risk slipping back into underdevelopment.

NEPAD chief executive, Dr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, in an interview after the recent World Economic Forum on Africa, made it clear that it’s time for African countries to have clear national and regional development plans and fast-track their implementation.

Dr Mayaki, who argues that Africans have to go back to the reasons NEPAD as a development programme for the continent was established, adding that the continent is coming out of structural adjustment processes because the levels of debt have been very high and that debt was very badly spent.

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