{"id":50100,"date":"2026-11-05T16:20:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=50100"},"modified":"2026-11-05T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:26:18","slug":"senegals-parliament-requests-withdrawal-of-2027-budget-bill","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/senegals-parliament-requests-withdrawal-of-2027-budget-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal&#8217;s parliament requests withdrawal of 2027 budget bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal&#8217;s National Assembly has requested the withdrawal \u200cof a budget bill for the next year, the West African country&#8217;s Finance Ministry said this Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers on Tuesday \u2060rejected a revised budget for 2026, deepening a standoff with the government that risks delaying a new International Monetary Fund programme underpinning Senegal&#8217;s debt restructuring strategy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Chair of \u200cSenegal&#8217;s \u2060Parliamentary Finance Committee believes the rejection of the 2026 budget bill calls into question the \u2060baseline assumptions of the 2027 budget, the Ministry said in \u2060a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, the committee has convened a meeting to \u2060review the 2027 budget, the Ministry added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33285,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-50100","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Senegal's National Assembly has requested the withdrawal \u200cof a budget bill for the next year","published_date":"2026-11-05 16:17:55","news_description":"Senegal's National Assembly has requested the withdrawal \u200cof a budget bill for the next year","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50100","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50103,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50100\/revisions\/50103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=50100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}