{"id":210139,"date":"2025-10-17T07:57:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-forgives-part-of-mozambiques-public-debt\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T07:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:57:55","slug":"mozambique-forgives-part-of-mozambiques-public-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-forgives-part-of-mozambiques-public-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Forgives Part of Mozambique&#8217;s Public Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Maputo \u2014 The Chinese government has decided to forgive Mozambique&#8217;s interest-free loans falling due until 2024 and donate 100 million yuan (about 14 million US dollars, at the current exchange rate).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">According to government data, 14 per cent of Mozambique&#8217;s foreign debt in March of this year was held by China, the country&#8217;s largest bilateral creditor, with a stock of 1.3 billion US dollars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"77\">According to Mozambican Prime Minister, Benvinda Levi, who made the announcement on Wednesday, in Beijing,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510170022.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 The Chinese government has decided to forgive Mozambique&#8217;s interest-free loans falling due until 2024 and donate 100 million yuan (about 14 million US dollars, at the current exchange rate). According to government data, 14 per cent of Mozambique&#8217;s foreign debt in March of this year was held by China, the country&#8217;s largest bilateral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,6861,47219,4704,682,10439,257,7140,5751,254],"class_list":["post-210139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-debt","tag-forgives","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-mozambiques","tag-news","tag-part","tag-public","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/210139","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=210139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}