{"id":225086,"date":"2026-02-25T13:03:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-imf-vs-government-part-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:03:03","slug":"mozambique-imf-vs-government-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-imf-vs-government-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: IMF vs Government &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>IMF thinks the money pot is empty and collapse is nigh, but Frelimo is &#8216;cautiously optimistic&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">Frelimo and the IMF do not appear to be looking at the same country. IMF staff say &#8220;current policies are unsustainable&#8221;. But government &#8220;remains cautiously optimistic about near- and medium-term prospects, underpinned by Mozambique\u2019s natural resource endowment,&#8221; said Adriano Ubisse, IMF Executive for Mozambique, writing &#8220;on behalf of the Mozambique authorities&#8221;. IMF points to no jobs and growing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602250209.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>IMF thinks the money pot is empty and collapse is nigh, but Frelimo is &#8216;cautiously optimistic&#8217; Frelimo and the IMF do not appear to be looking at the same country. IMF staff say &#8220;current policies are unsustainable&#8221;. But government &#8220;remains cautiously optimistic about near- and medium-term prospects, underpinned by Mozambique\u2019s natural resource endowment,&#8221; said Adriano [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":225087,"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":[258,256,6427,1283,4704,682,257,7140,254],"class_list":["post-225086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-government","tag-imf","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-part","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/225086","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=225086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}