{"id":22961,"date":"2026-01-27T12:54:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/23826\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:51","slug":"23826","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/23826\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola plans to raise $1.7 bln on international capital markets in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Angola plans to raise about $1.7 billion on international capital markets in 2026, the government&#8217;s annual debt plan showed this Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The document also showed Angola aims to secure around $1.4 billion in commercial financing, including debt-for-health swap operations, and $500 million from World Bank Development Policy Operations.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The Southern African oil-producing country is under pressure from high debt-service costs, which could consume more than 40% of total expenditure this year.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The International Monetary Fund in December forecast that economic growth would remain subdued this year at around 2%, with a gradual recovery over the medium term dependent on progress in economic diversification.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Angola&#8217;s government is trying to bolster public finances by cutting subsidies and opening up its state-dominated economy to more private investment.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14271,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-22961","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Angola's government is trying to bolster public finances by cutting subsidies.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Angola's government is trying to bolster public finances by cutting subsidies.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22961","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26083,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22961\/revisions\/26083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=22961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}