IMF expects talks with Zambia on new financial package to start in April

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Thursday that talks with Zambia over a new loan program could start in April.

But the lender added that an agreement was only expected after elections in the southern African country in August.

Lusaka’s most recent program with the IMF, a $1.7 billion facility agreed in 2022, ended in January.

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