UN chief warns Africa’s inadequate access to debt relief is recipe for social unrest

African countries’ inadequate access to debt relief and scarce resources is a recipe for social unrest, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said on Thursday, proposing fresh reforms to the international financial architecture.A growing debt crisis across the 1 billion-strong continent has seen a conflagration of civil unrest in recent months, after protests in Kenya, where police clashed with demonstrators rallying against proposed tax hikes, inspired people to take to the streets in Nigeria and Uganda over the cost of living.African nations have been seeking to restructure their…