Zambia’s Call for Debt Relief Triggers Africa Default Fears
- Southern African nation asks for freeze on interest payments
- Chad seeks waiver, Angola may ask for more relief if oil tanks
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Zambia became the first African country to ask bondholders for relief since the onset of the coronavirus, raising fears of a wave of defaults rippling through the continent as a decade-long debt binge unravels.