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Zambia faces mounting debt crisis
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Zambia's credit rating has been downgraded after it requested a six-month debt repayment holiday. This led to ratings agency Fitch downgrading it to C status making it a difficult for the southern African country to borrow money on the international market.
And we hear from one of the five jailed Sudanese artists.
Fifteen top business people in Kenya face prosecution over missing millions meant for Covid-19 medical supplies.
(A copper smelting plant in Zambia. Credit: Getty Images)
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Thu 24 Sep 202015:06GMT
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