Zambia expects an International Monetary Fund (IMF) debt health check to be finalised this month, to strike a restructuring deal with creditors by April and get a formal agreement with the fund signed off in May, its finance minister said.
"I have to be optimistic, because in the absence of optimism where can Zambia go?" Situmbeko Musokotwane told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. "We are a serious group determined to make sure that this issue of debt that's been dogging us for years and years, we are determined to put this behind us."
