{"id":224146,"date":"2026-02-18T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-imf-dashes-chapos-hopes-and-sets-the-course-for-hard-times\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:46:00","slug":"mozambique-imf-dashes-chapos-hopes-and-sets-the-course-for-hard-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-imf-dashes-chapos-hopes-and-sets-the-course-for-hard-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: IMF Dashes Chapo&#8217;s Hopes and Sets the Course for Hard Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Chapo&#8217;s hopes for IMF approval were dashed today (17 February) by the IMF Executive Board, with no discussion of a new loan or programme. President Daniel Chapo has publicly put his hope on a new loan and programme triggering investment and aid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">The IMF mission 12-21 November took a hard line, which was supported today by the Executive Board. The main IMF demands stand &#8211; substantial devaluation plus major fiscal and wage reforms. The Board said &#8220;A clear communication of reform objectives would be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602180125.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>Chapo&#8217;s hopes for IMF approval were dashed today (17 February) by the IMF Executive Board, with no discussion of a new loan or programme. President Daniel Chapo has publicly put his hope on a new loan and programme triggering investment and aid. The IMF mission 12-21 November took a hard line, which was supported today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224147,"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\/00680077:a6c097b743687d5e0bab1af595307c5b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,50405,10589,9309,10002,1283,4704,682,257,7123,254,6592],"class_list":["post-224146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chapos","tag-dashes","tag-hard","tag-hopes","tag-imf","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-sets","tag-south-africa-today","tag-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680077:a6c097b743687d5e0bab1af595307c5b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224146","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=224146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}