{"id":2760,"date":"2026-02-20T18:13:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:13:43","slug":"government-allocates-k52-billion-for-debt-servicing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=2760","title":{"rendered":"GOVERNMENT ALLOCATES K52 BILLION FOR DEBT SERVICING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Finance and National Planning Economist Samantha Longwe has disclosed that government has allocated K52 billion towards domestic debt servicing in the 2026 budget.<\/p>\n<p>Making a presentation during a citizens budget dissemination meeting, Ms Longwe stated that 21.7 billion will be used to repay borrowed external and domestic loans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have K4.7 billion which will be used to pay arrears to local suppliers of goods and services to ensure that there is enough money circulating in the economy&#8221; Ms Longwe said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Longwe further stated that K1.2 billion has been allocated towards conducting general elections while K1.4 billion will be for local government equalisation fund.<\/p>\n<p>Officiating at the meeting Provincial Deputy Permanent Secretary Luckson Mulumbi stated that budget implementation affects everyone therefore it is imperative for every stakeholder to understand it&#8217;s content.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Finance and National Planning Economist Samantha Longwe has disclosed that government has allocated K52 billion towards domestic debt servicing in the 2026 budget. Making a presentation during a citizens budget dissemination meeting, Ms Longwe stated that 21.7 billion will be used to repay borrowed external and domestic loans. &#8220;We have K4.7 billion which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20,15],"tags":[26,154,25],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-business","category-onlyzanis","tag-ineverycornerofzambia","tag-ministryoffinance","tag-zanis","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}