{"id":10520,"date":"2021-01-19T22:30:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T22:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3118379\/kenya-seeks-debt-relief-china-railway-loan-deadline-looms"},"modified":"2021-01-19T22:30:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T22:30:06","slug":"kenya-seeks-debt-relief-from-china-as-railway-loan-deadline-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/kenya-seeks-debt-relief-from-china-as-railway-loan-deadline-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya seeks debt relief from China as railway loan deadline looms"},"content":{"rendered":"Kenya is seeking debt relief from China to help it cope with a coronavirus-fuelled economic slump, as the first repayment on a loan for a railway under Beijing\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative comes due this week.The Chinese embassy in Nairobi confirmed that negotiations on suspending Kenya\u2019s debts were ongoing. The East African nation has already received just over US$300 million in debt relief from the Paris Club, an informal group of creditors that aids borrowers in distress, under the G20-led\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3118379\/kenya-seeks-debt-relief-china-railway-loan-deadline-looms\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya is seeking debt relief from China to help it cope with a coronavirus-fuelled economic slump, as the first repayment on a loan for a railway under Beijing\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative comes due this week.The Chinese embassy in Nairobi confirmed that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":932,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/932"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10521,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520\/revisions\/10521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}