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Sep 2022
28m 30s

Zambia’s billion dollar bailout sparks e...

Bbc World Service
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<p>Zambia has agreed a $1.3 billion bailout loan with the IMF after months of negotiations. We’ll look at what this might mean for the country. Why a community in North-West Cameroon are concerned about a strange smell coming from a crater lake. And Ghanaian-born British Vogue editor Edward Eninnful talks about his new memoir, A Visible Man.</p> 
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