The threat of lower oil prices and the Angolan government’s apparent reluctance to push through (further) fiscal consolidation measures has raised the risk that it will be the next African sovereign to default on its debt. If that transpires, large debts owed to China suggest that restructuring talks will be long and arduous.
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