Somalia Granted $4.5 Billion in Debt Forgiveness
Voice of America
A woman, who fled amid a drought, carries her baby at a makeshift camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023.
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank approved $4.5 billion in debt forgiveness for Somalia Wednesday after the Horn of Africa nation completed years of financial reforms under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, or HIPC.
Polling officials check and seal an electronic voting machine before they allow voters to cast their votes at a polling station during the last round of a six-week-long national election near Dharamshala, India, June 1, 2024. Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, stand in queue to cast their votes during the last round of a six-week-long national election, in Kolkata, India, June 1, 2024.
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