{"id":186384,"date":"2024-12-12T01:18:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T23:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-france-sign-landmark-debt-restructuring-deal\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T01:18:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T23:18:22","slug":"zambia-france-sign-landmark-debt-restructuring-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-france-sign-landmark-debt-restructuring-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia, France Sign Landmark Debt Restructuring Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Zambia and France have signed a bilateral debt restructuring agreement.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a significant step in Zambia&#8217;s effort to revamp its $13 billion external debt.<\/li>\n<li>Under the agreement, Zambia will extend the maturity of its debt by an average of 12 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Zambia and France have signed a bilateral debt restructuring agreement, a significant step in Zambia&#8217;s effort to revamp its $13 billion external debt. The deal marks progress in a process that began after Zambia became the first African nation to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412100692.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia and France have signed a bilateral debt restructuring agreement. It&#8217;s a significant step in Zambia&#8217;s effort to revamp its $13 billion external debt. Under the agreement, Zambia will extend the maturity of its debt by an average of 12 years. Zambia and France have signed a bilateral debt restructuring agreement, a significant step in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":186385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,7012,6861,4960,12583,257,10415,4368,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-186384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deal","tag-debt","tag-france","tag-landmark","tag-news","tag-restructuring","tag-sign","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}