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'We worked with the IMF over undisclosed debts... we want transparency'

Mozambique is at the centre of a storm. After it was announced by the International Monetary Fund that the country had more than a billion dollars of undisclosed debt on its books, both the World Bank and the IMF suspended the signing off of further development loans.

Britain said it would be withholding all its aid payments.

The IMF said the undisclosed loans had pushed Mozambique's foreign debt to nearly $10bn (拢7bn) - a level it said was dangerously close to not being sustainable.

The 麻豆官网首页入口鈥檚 Lerato Mbele sat down with the man at the receiving end of all this, Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi, and began by asking him how it came about that this billion dollars was not disclosed and what he intended to do about it.

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