{"id":23057,"date":"2026-01-29T10:35:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/zambia-hopeful-to-arrange-debt-restructuring-terms-with-afreximbank\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:56","slug":"zambia-hopeful-to-arrange-debt-restructuring-terms-with-afreximbank","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zambia-hopeful-to-arrange-debt-restructuring-terms-with-afreximbank\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia hopeful to arrange debt restructuring terms with Afreximbank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Zambia&#8217;s government is hopeful that it can agree debt restructuring terms with Afreximbank, even though the matter is under arbitration, a Senior Zambian Finance official said on Thursday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8220;We have continued discussing with Afreximbank, and we believe that matter can come out of arbitration and we can be able to resolve it,&#8221; Felix Nkulukusa, Zambia&#8217;s Secretary to the Treasury, said at an event in the capital Lusaka.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">A dispute over whether the Southern African country must restructure debts to Afreximbank have complicated and extended its painful path out of debt default.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Zambia has reached agreements with creditors for 94% of the debt it wants to restructure, and Nkulukusa said the government believed the remaining &#8220;6% of the debt will be done very soon&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23058,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-23057","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Zambia's debt restructuring terms with Afreximbank","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23057","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\/23057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26150,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23057\/revisions\/26150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}