"The debt burden draws scarce resources towards itself, reducing the amount available for national security, and leaving the ...

DAKAR (Reuters) -Senegal has raised its projections of debt service payments by about 3.2 trillion CFA francs ($5.8 billion) for the next three years in a revised budget document published last week.

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US debt interest payments reached $529B in six months, equaling defense and education spending combined. CBO projects sharp ...

Debt servicing in Nigeria outpaced capital expenditure by N3.9tn over the past two years, highlighting growing fiscal pressures on the federal budget, according to a media brief obtained by The PUNCH ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's debt-servicing costs will rise by 22.5% in 2026 from this year, reaching 8.8% of the total budget expenses, due to an increase in borrowing and high interest rates, Finance ...

Sri Lanka’s Treasury yesterday sought to reassure creditors that external debt servicing will continue, after a $ 2.5 million ...

Nigeria’s total debt servicing rose by N2.98tn year-on-year to N15.81tn in 2025, driven largely by a sharp increase in domestic interest payments and sustained external obligations, data from the Debt ...

THE NATIONAL Government’s (NG) debt service bill surged more than sixfold in February, mainly due to a massive increase in ...

THE country’s debt service burden surged by 81.1 percent to $1.51 billion in January from $831 million a year earlier, ...