Angola's interest payments to creditors double as Chinese debt freeze ends
Published on: Friday 15 September 2023
Angola's interest payments to external creditors, mostly Chinese, doubled from US$775 million in the first quarter of this year to US$1.57 billion in the second quarter as the three-year debt moratorium with Chinese creditors ended. The rise was the highest since at least the first quarter of 2012, according to data released by the African nation's central bank, Banco Nacional de Angola (BNA). But the higher interest payments were partly offset by a fall of the deficit in service trade to a two-
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