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Resource sovereignty must define development agenda - Mahama urges NAM

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Resource sovereignty must define development agenda - Mahama urges NAM

"We cannot accept a global order in which countries of the Global South remain exporters of raw material and importers of finished goods, while our people bear the environmental and social costs of extraction," President Mahama stressed.

Context The President’s call for resource sovereignty reflects Ghana’s policy shift from exporting raw materials to value addition and retention.

President John Dramani Mahama has called on member states of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to prioritise resource sovereignty as the anchor of their development agenda.

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