Zambia on Brink of Default as Creditors Set to Reject Relief

  • Country has already missed interest due on $1 billion of bonds
  • Vice President tells lawmakers country will meet obligations
Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg
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Zambia’s Eurobonds rallied after the country’s vice president said it would honor its obligations, hours before creditors were set to meet on a standstill proposal that the country requested to give it breathing space while it restructures its debt.