{"id":245951,"date":"2026-09-29T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-more-details-of-mozambique-public-debt\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:00:22","slug":"mozambique-more-details-of-mozambique-public-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-more-details-of-mozambique-public-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: More Details of Mozambique Public Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\">Mozambique\u2019s total government debt is rising, from $17.2 bn in the first quarter to $17.4 in the second quarter. But Mozambique can only borrow small amounts internationally, so foreign debt fell from $8.9bn to $8.8bn, but domestic debt rose from $8.3 to $8.8bn. Two thirds of foreign debt is to just four creditors: World Bank IDA ($3,108mn), China ($1,284mn), International Fund for Agricultural Development ($940mn), and the hidden debt bonds ($897mn).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">New government foreign borrowing in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609290436.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Mozambique\u2019s total government debt is rising, from $17.2 bn in the first quarter to $17.4 in the second quarter. But Mozambique can only borrow small amounts internationally, so foreign debt fell from $8.9bn to $8.8bn, but domestic debt rose from $8.3 to $8.8bn. Two thirds of foreign debt is to just four creditors: World Bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":245952,"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":[258,256,6861,5737,4704,682,257,5751,254],"class_list":["post-245951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-debt","tag-details","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","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\/245951","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=245951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}