{"id":39751,"date":"2026-07-16T13:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39751"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:01:31","slug":"zambia-hopes-to-agree-new-imf-programme-by-year-end","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zambia-hopes-to-agree-new-imf-programme-by-year-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia hopes to agree new IMF programme by year end"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Zambia hopes to reach agreement with the \u200cInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) on a new support programme by the end of the year to attract investment \u200band drive economic growth, Finance Minister \u200bSitumbeko Musokotwane said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The copper-rich Southern African country&#8217;s most recent IMF programme ended in January, with \u200btotal disbursements of $1.7 billion helping it emerge \u200bfrom a protracted debt-restructuring process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;We need to do more \u200cthan \u2060just get out of the debt crisis. We need to attract investments now so that growth takes place and jobs are created. And \u200binvestors, or \u200bsome of \u2060the investors, certainly feel more comfortable when there&#8217;s an IMF programme \u200bin place. So this is where \u200bwe \u2060are,&#8221; Musokotwane added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">An IMF staff team visited Lusaka between April and May, saying discussions on a \u2060new \u200bprogramme had advanced and were \u200bexpected to continue after Zambia&#8217;s general election in August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16272,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-39751","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Zambia hopes to reach agreement with the \u200cInternational Monetary Fund","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39751","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\/39751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39752,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39751\/revisions\/39752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}