Nations Make Progress to Fix an Expensive Life Raft: Next Africa

Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, in Marrakech, Morocco, on  Oct. 10.

Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg

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Zambia is on the verge of signing a long-fought-for agreement with official creditors.