World Bank head urges countries to cut Liberia’s debt

by BBC News

The president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, has called on International Monetary Fund member countries to allow Liberia’s debts to be paid off.

Liberia is $800m in arrears on old debt to the IMF, relating to loans on which repayments stopped in 1984.

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