Tunisia's foreign debt will rise by 40% in 2024 to $3.9bln

The internal debt that Tunisia should pay next year will be 12.386 billion dinars

Tarek Amara, Reuters News

October 18, 2023

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Tunisia will pay 12.3 billion dinars )$3.9 billion( of foreign debts in 2024, an increase of 40% compared with 2023, an official document showed on Wednesday, amid a scarcity of external financing for the North African country that is struggling to fix its ailing public finances.

The internal debt that Tunisia should pay next year will be 12.386 billion dinars.

The government expects the accumulated public debt in 2024 to reach about 140 billion dinars ,or about 79.8% of GDP, up from 127 billion dinars. ($1 = 3.1614 Tunisian dinars) (Reporting by Tarek Amara; Editing by Alex Richardson)

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