Zambia sighs in debt deal, but is it relief or new bondage?
Nairobi, March 31 -- Zambia's historic agreement with its creditors to restructure its $3.5 billion Eurobond has come as a huge sigh of relief to the Southern African country that has had a long-drawn debt crisis.
Either that or it could only delay a bigger crisis in future.
President Hakainde Hichilema announced this week that an agreement was reached under the G20 Common Framework, lifting a key hurdle in his government's push to restructure the country's $18.6 billion external debt.
The debt restructuring negotiations have been held back by differences between China and Western creditors.
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Zambia's Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane described the agreement with the Eurobo...
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