A South African app that links households with domestic workers is reeling, delivery drivers are fleeing, and a key textile hub has lost workers as anti-migrant protests push tens of thousands of people to leave the country, sending tremors through a strained economy.

Mozambique is making progress toward a debt-restructuring deal with China similar to the one it reached with Brazil and is seeking a new International Monetary Fund program this year, President Daniel Chapo said.

China called for global measures to curb what it described as “malicious litigation” by bondholders in debt relief cases, saying such action is needed to protect a Group of 20 restructuring mechanism for poor countries struggling to repay their loans.

Vitol Group is supplying diesel to Zambia via exclusive access to a pipeline that lasts through September, in an emergency arrangement the International Monetary Fund has urged authorities to end.

Zambia has received enough support from bondholders to buy back its 2053 dollar debt in full, after offering an extra $65 million to pull in a group of holdout creditors that resisted the transaction.

Zambia’s government is heading to the negotiating table after a group of bondholders moved to block its bid to buy back a $1.36 billion bond before a potentially costly coupon increase.

A group of holders of Ethiopia’s defaulted $1 billion eurobond will continue the process of suing the government after the latest round of restructuring negotiations fell through, according to a committee representing the investors.

A group of holders of Zambia’s dollar bonds maturing 2053 is opposing the government’s tender to buy back the securities, saying it was conducted without negotiation and would harm investors’ interests.

A London arbitration tribunal ordered Zambia’s majority state-owned investment company, ZCCM Investments Holdings Plc, to pay Trafigura about $92 million in a long-running dispute over a prepayment agreement between the commodity trader and Konkola Copper Mines.

Zambia started a cash tender offer to buy back its $1.36 billion bond due in 2053, becoming the latest African nation to repurchase outstanding debt as governments seek to reduce their servicing costs.

Ethiopia’s finance ministry said restructuring talks with some bondholders fell through after they rebuffed its latest proposal for them to take a 12% loss, drawing out a default that dates back to December 2023.

Zambia’s state-controlled mining investment company, ZCCM Investments Holdings Plc, agreed to sell a majority stake in a lime and cement venture to a privately held Chinese company.

Mozambique is disputing $2 billion in costs that TotalEnergies SE and its partners say they incurred during a years-long stoppage of their liquefied natural gas project that’s under construction in the southeast Africa nation, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Mozambique’s central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged for the second time in a row as surging global energy costs push local prices higher and muddy the inflation outlook.

The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa told investors last week that Senegal is in arrears with the lender, people familiar with the matter said, adding to signs of mounting financial strain on the government. The nation’s dollar bonds fell.

The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa told investors last week that Senegal is in arrears with the lender, people familiar with the matter said, adding to signs of mounting financial strain on the government. The nation’s dollar bonds fell.

Senegal is making progress toward a deal with the International Monetary Fund, according to the head of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa.

Mozambique, one of the world’s poorest countries, raised diesel prices by 46% on Thursday as African governments lift regulated rates to catch up with higher global market prices caused by the war in Iran.

Angola’s Cabinda oil refinery, among the first to be built in Africa in decades, has started shipping fuel, helping the crude producer bolster domestic supply and reduce reliance on imports.

Zambia’s talks with the US over a new $2 billion health-aid deal stalled because the proposed agreement included data sharing that would violate citizens’ privacy rights and was conditional on first agreeing to preferential access to mineral resources, the nation’s foreign minister said.