Africa Intel - Африканские новости

🌍 IMF and World Bank debt framework reforms for Africa described as interim step African Business reported on 20 August 2026 that proposed reforms by the IMF and World Bank to the Low-Income Country Debt Sustainability Framework would distinguish public debt stress from debt sustainability, add a domestic debt risk module and provide more granular treatment of high risk ratings by time horizon and vulnerability type. The article says the current framework remains widely used for African sovereigns despite mixed financing structures that combine concessional lending, non-concessional bilateral finance, domestic bonds, regional development bank borrowing and market access. The piece notes that 39 of the 70 countries on the IMF’s September 2025 LIC-DSF list were African. It also says that in 2019, before Covid-19, 64 countries globally had public debt above 60% of GDP, only a third were African, but all 12 countries classified by the IMF and World Bank as high-risk or in debt distress were African. #Africa 🔸 Source @africaintel