{"id":199605,"date":"2025-06-05T19:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-imf-spokesman-in-exclusive-chat-on-countrys-program\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T19:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:38:12","slug":"sierra-leone-imf-spokesman-in-exclusive-chat-on-countrys-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-imf-spokesman-in-exclusive-chat-on-countrys-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: IMF Spokesman in Exclusive Chat on Country&#8217;s Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><em>As ECF is still &#8220;Current&#8221; with No Suspension over $67m<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The International Monetary Fund (IMF) through the Office of the IMF Spokesman in Washington D.C. has confirmed that its ongoing program with the Government of Sierra Leone was &#8220;current&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">This was made known to Awareness Times Newspaper during a series of exclusive email and phone chats with the IMF Office in Washington D.C. concerning allegations of Sierra Leone being suspended from the IMF&#8217;s Extended Credit Facility (ECF) program with the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506050222.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As ECF is still &#8220;Current&#8221; with No Suspension over $67m The International Monetary Fund (IMF) through the Office of the IMF Spokesman in Washington D.C. has confirmed that its ongoing program with the Government of Sierra Leone was &#8220;current&#8221;. This was made known to Awareness Times Newspaper during a series of exclusive email and phone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601511:025335bd4b628dc009aac03b9e4a5f92:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,10608,7216,11196,1283,6572,257,5163,6571,1135,254,11344],"class_list":["post-199605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chat","tag-countrys","tag-exclusive","tag-imf","tag-leone","tag-news","tag-program","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spokesman"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601511:025335bd4b628dc009aac03b9e4a5f92:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199605","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}