Finance Minister Cheikh Diba is in Washington for high-stakes talks at the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings from 13-18 April for a fresh funding programme as the government faces a new wave of debt-driven pressure...
Until two months ago Finance and Budget Minister Cheikh Diba was trying to raise funds from sources such as the Islamic Development Bank the African Development Bank and Abu Dhabi...
Finance Minister Cheikh Diba accepts the IMF view that Senegal should restructure its debt to put recovery on a viable footing...
As a result Finance Minister Cheikh Diba warned that Senegal's agreement with the IMF would have to be renegotiated and the fund itself said ‘audacious' reforms are required...
His stance has stirred up the hitherto somnolent but still dominant BBY parliamentary caucus: on 29 June it abruptly cancelled a budget debate with Cheikh Diba the finance minister...
