FINANCE and National Planning Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane says abandoning the IMF program will make Zambia lose donor funding. And Dr Musokotwane says the country is not in a debt crisis. Speaking at a press briefing, Tuesday, Dr. Musokotwane said abandoning the IMF program would further result in loss of about K4 billion for the 2026 National budget. “When there’s an IMF program, there’s also financial support that comes through. And the financial support that we are looking at is about $145 million, this is something that we can make use of as we go into next year. But another reason also is that if we were to abandon the IMF program now, some of the financial support...
