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The president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, praised Zimbabwe for making significant progress in addressing its US$21 billion public debt, despite challenges such as sanctions and an El Nino-induced drought.
Zimbabwe’s external debt stands at US$12.3 billion, owed to creditors like the AfDB, World Bank, and European Investment Bank. The country also has a domestic debt of US$8.7 billion.
During his speech at the High-level Structured Dialogue Platform Meeting on Arrears Clearance and Debt Resolution in Harare on Monday, Adesina, who is leading Zimbabwe’s debt clearance efforts, said:
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The high-level structured dialogue is the only way, there is no other way. So, we should make it work to deliver the expected end: arrears clearance and debt resolution for Zimbabwe.
That is why the African Development Bank provided US$4,2 million towards facilitating the High-Level structured dialogue.
And we expect to provide additional support because we strongly believe these dialogues are yielding fruits.
</blockquote>
According to the AfDB president, Zimbabwe is too important for the world to overlook. He said:
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With its vast deposits of critical minerals, including lithium and platinum metals group, Zimbabwe is one of the leading countries that holds the future for global energy transitions.
In a world of geo-political competition and drive for securing vital strategic minerals and metals, we must look at Zimbabwe with new lenses.
</blockquote>
Adesina also said Zimbabwe is on track to implement an International Monetary Fund (IMF) Staff Monitoring Programme (SMP), which is crucial for the arrears clearance process.
He said that this is set to take place in January when IMF officials will visit the country.
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Zimbabwe has a big debt of $21 billion. They have $12.3 billion to foreign creditors and $8.7 billion to local creditors. The president of AfDB, Akinwumi Adesina, said Zimbabwe is doing well to clear the debt. They need structured dialogues to fix the debt problem. AfDB gave $4.2 million for this. Zimbabwe has important minerals and metals that the world needs. The IMF will visit Zimbabwe in January to help with the debt. Adesina says Zimbabwe is important and needs help to fix its debt.

"Structured Dialogue The Only Path To Zimbabwe’s Arrears Clearance And Debt Resolution"

Zimbabwe plans to pay $331 million to White former farmers whose land was seized in 2000 as part of efforts to restructure its $21 billion debt, reported <a href="https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/2024/11/25/zimbabwe-to-pay-ex-farmers-331-million-in-move-to-rework-debt/">Bloomberg</a>.
Speaking at a debt conference with the nation’s creditors in the capital, Harare, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina said that Zimbabwe has identified at least 439 former landowners as beneficiaries for the financial settlement, with $35 million allocated in this year’s budget to begin payments.
He said the debt will be settled through bonds, with the first step of payments set to begin soon.
In 2022, President Emmerson Mnangagwa enlisted the help of Adesina and former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano to lead talks with creditors, including the World Bank and the Paris Club.
Zimbabwe has struggled with a $21 billion debt, much of which is in arrears, preventing the country from accessing financing from international lenders like the IMF. Said Adesina:
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We can all agree that we must play our part to correct this anomaly by giving a new lease of life to this nation and its people. Zimbabwe is too critical for the world to ignore.
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Zimbabwe owes a lot of money and wants to pay back some of it to White farmers they took land from. They will pay $331 million through bonds. This will help restructure their $21 billion debt. The first payments will start soon. The president asked for help from the African Development Bank to negotiate with creditors. Zimbabwe's debt has caused problems getting loans from international lenders. Everyone wants to help Zimbabwe become better for its people.

Zimbabwe Set To Begin US$331 Million Payment To White Former Farmers

Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, says there is a potential risk of the Zimbabwean debt clearance process collapsing due to the anger of European Union (EU) leaders in Brussels. He attributed this anger to the continuous attacks against the EU in Zimbabwe’s state media. The strained relationship between Zimbabwe and the EU began after the August 23, 2023, harmonized elections, when ZANU PF launched unwarranted attacks on the EU for criticizing the election process as chaotic.
Zimbabwe has significant debt owed to various international creditors. The debt clearance process is overseen by former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano and the African Development Bank president, Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina. Chin’ono said:
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My media contacts in Brussels said that this coming week is crucial for Zimbabwe as the EU is more likely to move and end the attempts to reengage with Zimbabwe unless President Mnangagwa moves to save the process. The European Union ambassador to Zimbabwe, Jobst von Kirchmann, who has been more than helpful to the Zimbabwean Government has been left with an upset headquarters in Brussels and an unhelpful ally in Zimbabwe.
Sources in the diplomatic community said that he tried his best to keep Zimbabwe off the pariah list but the Zimbabwean Government has failed to help him by doing the bare minimum to keep the debt clearance process going. How President Mnangagwa reacts and deals with this crisis will determine whether it will stay alive or die this coming week. 
China also wanted the debt process to work because it is owed by the Zimbabwean Government. The collapse will mean that Zimbabwe might end up defaulting on all its loans and will not be able to borrow new funds and the economy will further crumble. Americans will feel vindicated if the process collapses, Africans who were working on it will feel betrayed by the Zimbabwean Government, and the EU ambassador will at least say that he tried, but it wasn’t good enough.
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According to <a href="https://www.devere-zimbabwe.co.zw/news/Zimbabwe-aims-to-clear-overseas-debt-by-end-of-2025">DeVere Zimbabwe</a>, one of the world’s leading independent financial consultancy, Zimbabwe’s total public and publicly guaranteed debt stood at $18 billion in December 2022, made up of $12.8 billion in foreign debt and $5.2 billion in domestic debt, as per a debt bulletin published by the treasury.
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Chin'ono Says The Zimbabwean Debt Clearance Process Could Collapse

President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube attended a Roundtable meeting on Zimbabwe Debt Arrears Clearance in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt recently.
The roundtable meeting was held on Wednesday evening and was a side event during the African Development Bank (AfDB) annual general meetings.
Zimbabwe is facing an external debt crisis which has made it difficult for the country to secure loans from international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) due to arrears.
<h2>What Is External Debt?</h2>
According to an <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/external-debt.asp">online source</a>, external debt or foreign debt is the portion of a country’s debt that is borrowed from foreign lenders, including commercial banks, governments, or international financial institutions.
These loans, including interest, must usually be paid in the currency in which the loan was made.
If a country cannot repay its external debt, it is said to be in sovereign debt and faces a debt crisis.
<h2>Zimbabwe’s Debt Inherited From Rhodesia</h2>
<a href="https://debtjustice.org.uk/countries/zimbabwe#:~:text=Zimbabwe%20inherited%20a%20sizeable%20debt,buying%20exports%2C%20including%20military%20aircraft.">Debt Justice</a> says Zimbabwe inherited a sizeable debt from Rhodesia, which grew through the 1980s, that is, the first decade after the country gained independence.
In 1980, Zimbabwe inherited a US$700 million debt from the Rhodesian government of Ian Smith.
The loans had been used to buy weapons in the 1970s, breaking United Nations (UN) sanctions.
The new Government reportedly came under international pressure to take on the debt, whilst being promised over US$2 billion by Western governments for reconstruction and development. Most of the aid money reportedly never materialised.
Zimbabwe also received loans from the United Kingdom and Spain to buy Land Rovers and military aircraft and from the World Bank to plant trees.
By 1990, to keep paying the debt, Zimbabwe had to take out bailout loans from the IMF and World Bank.
Zimbabwe defaulted on repayments in 2000 and the lenders stopped lending to the country.
<h2>What Is a Default?</h2>
Default is the failure to make required interest or principal repayments on a debt, whether that debt is a loan or a security.
Sovereign default occurs when a country does not repay its debts. Though a country cannot be forced to satisfy its obligations by a court, countries that default on sovereign debt might have trouble borrowing again and are likely to have to pay a higher interest rate if they get the chance.
According to <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/102413/why-and-when-do-countries-default.asp">Investopedia</a>, the common causes of sovereign defaults include economic stagnation, political instability, and financial mismanagement.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">How Much Does Zimbabwe Owe?</h2>
In October 2022, the Ministry of Finance’s Public Debt Management Office released a medium-term debt management strategy that had the latest data on the extent of the country’s debt crisis.
It said the total Public and Publicly Guaranteed (PPG) debt in December 2021 was US$17.2 billion.
This was made up of external debt of US$13.4 billion (77.9%) and domestic debt of US$3.8 billion (22.1%).
The total public debt included blocked funds of US$3.533 billion and an obligation of US$3.5 billion to compensate white former farmers for improvements on resettled land.
Besides the principal amounts owed, Zimbabwe also has arrears and penalties because of not paying its debts on time.
<h2>What Are Arrears?</h2>
When a country is said to be in arrears, it would have failed to make regular contractually required payments. The term arrears applies to an overdue payment.
In December 2021, Zimbabwe had piled up external debt arrears and penalties of US$6.6 billion. This included penalties of US$2.01 billion by December 2021.
Of the total external debt arrears, US$4.2 billion (63%) was due to the bilateral creditors, while US$2.4 billion (37%) was due to the multilateral creditors such as the World Bank and others.
<h2>Who Does Zimbabwe Owe?</h2>
As of December 2021, Zimbabwe owed US$5.6 billion to bilateral creditors – such as individual countries – and US$2.7 billion to multilateral creditors – international financial institutions.
External Debt
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<li>US$3.9 billion is owed to the Paris Club. This is a group of creditor countries that has 22 permanent members that include Australia, Austria, the UK, Japan and the USA.</li>
<li>US$1.8 billion is owed to the non-Paris Club bilateral creditors.</li>
<li>US$1.5 billion is owed to the World Bank 
US$711 million is owed to the African Development Bank</li>
<li>US$358 million is owed to the European Investment Bank</li>
</ul>
Over the years, the Government has taken over the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)’s debt.
Zimbabwe owes US$111 million to creditors under the 2015 RBZ Debt Assumption Act, while US$4.9 billion is external debt on RBZ’s balance sheet.
<h2>Zimbabwe’s Chinese Loans</h2>
In 2022, Ncube told Parliament that Zimbabwe had borrowed US$2.7 billion from China since 1980.
He said the outstanding debt to China as of August 2022 amounted to US$1.768 billion.
Most of the Chinese loans have been borrowed for infrastructure projects but Zimbabwe was struggling to service some of the running Chinese loans.
According to the mid-term Debt Management Office, China was not releasing as much of the loans as needed because Zimbabwe was in arrears.
Treasury said Zimbabwe was in arrears on loans for the Victoria Falls Airport (US$65.36 million), NetOne Network Expansion Phase I &amp; II (US$66.65 million) and TelOne National Broadband Expansion Project (US$8.0 million).
<h2>Zimbabwe’s Arrears Clearance And Debt Process</h2>
In 2022, President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina as leader of Zimbabwe’s arrears clearance and debt process.
Addressing delegates during the inaugural Dialogue Platform on Zimbabwe’s Arrears Clearance and Debt meeting at the Rainbow Towers Hotel in Harare in 2022, Ncube said Adesina had agreed and committed to working with other institutions to support Zimbabwe in clearing its arrears and resolving its debts owed to international creditors.
Former Mozambique president, Joachim Chissano, was appointed the facilitator between the Zimbabwean government as a debtor, bilateral credit partners, and other relevant stakeholders.
Chissano is being supported by a technical advisor the former prime minister of Mozambique, Luisa Diogo.
In October 2022, Ncube said the country had started to make token payments to the IMF, World Bank, and other lenders. He said:
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We’ve begun to make token payments to the World Bank, the AfDB (African Development Bank), European Investment Bank.
And all the Paris Club creditors, 17 of them, we will be making token payments to show that we want to be a good debtor.
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Ncube also said IMF staff would visit Zimbabwe in December and then discuss a staff-monitored programme in the first and second quarter of 2023.
He said this would enable access to “resources from a sponsor who will help us with bridge funding in order to clear the arrears” to international lenders.
<h2>Debt Restructuring</h2>
Ncube said the “sponsor” will help Zimbabwe to restructure its debt to bilateral Paris Club creditors.
Debt restructuring is a process that involves getting lenders to agree to reduce the interest rates on loans, extend the dates when the debtor’s liabilities are due to be paid, or both.
<h2>Zimbabwe’s Debt Crisis And Reforms</h2>
In May 2023, Mnangagwa told development partners and creditors that Zimbabwe was committed to implementing key reforms that are critical to resolving the country’s debts and arrears.
He was speaking during the high-level debt resolution forum in Harare which was also addressed by Adesina and Chissano.
<a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/president-reassures-development-partners-creditors/">The Herald</a> reported that the majority of Zimbabwe’s combined US$8.3 billion bilateral and multilateral debt was accounted for by arrears.
However, in May 2023, <a href="https://tradingeconomics.com/zimbabwe/external-debt#:~:text=In%20the%20long%2Dterm%2C%20the,according%20to%20our%20econometric%20models.">Trading Economics</a> projected Zimbabwe’s External Debt to trend around US$18.6 Million in 2023.
South Africa’s Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said that his country supports Zimbabwe’s implementation of key reforms to resolve its debt problems.
Gondongwana presented a message of support during a round-table meeting on Zimbabwe’s debt arrears clearance at the African Development Bank (AfDB)’s 2023 annual meetings.
He said any challenge faced by Zimbabwe will also affect South Africa’s economy.
Zimbabwe is a major market for South African products. South Africa also hosts millions of Zimbabwean economic refugees.
Adesina said Zimbabwe’s arrears clearance and debt resolution involves governance, rule of law, human rights, freedom of speech, and electoral reforms among other issues. He said:
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The issues are not just economic or financial. They also involve governance, rule of law, human rights, freedom of speech, political level playing field, electoral reforms that will assure free and fair elections — as well as fairness, equity and justice for the commercial farmers and other businesses who were dispossessed of their lands, for which there is a clear need for restitution and compensation.
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