{"id":14966,"date":"2025-11-11T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/senegal-has-sovereign-right-to-decide-how-to-tackle-debt-imf\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:24","slug":"senegal-has-sovereign-right-to-decide-how-to-tackle-debt-imf-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/senegal-has-sovereign-right-to-decide-how-to-tackle-debt-imf-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal has sovereign right to decide how to tackle debt: IMF"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday it has discussed various options with Senegal to address the country&#8217;s &#8220;significant debt vulnerabilities,&#8221; adding a decision on whether to overhaul the debt rests with the government.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The IMF froze a $1.8 billion financial support package for the West African economy last year after a then new government disclosed hidden debts that are now estimated at more than $11 billion.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko said over the weekend Fund officials were pushing for a restructuring of Senegal&#8217;s debt, a move he said the government would not accept, which sent the country&#8217;s international bonds sharply lower on Monday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A discussion of the policy choices that Senegal faces, during a staff mission to Dakar that ended last week, was part of the IMF&#8217;s role to offer expert analysis and advice for government consideration, a Fund Spokesperson\u00a0told <i>Reuters<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The choice and specific nature of debt operations, and whether to seek to restructure debt obligations, remains a sovereign decision,&#8221; the Spokesperson said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12713,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-14966","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has discussed various options with Senegal","published_date":"2025-11-11 07:27:18","news_description":"IMF said it has discussed various options with Senegal to address its debt","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27197,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14966\/revisions\/27197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}