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Vol 60 No 15

Published 26th July 2019


Congo-Brazzaville

Fund falls for Sassou

The IMF sees the country as a test case for African nations which borrowed heavily from China. It is being lenient

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso appears, again, to have secured victory over the International Monetary Fund, obtaining an urgently needed bail-out in exchange for promises that he has made and broken many times over the previous two decades.

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