{"id":375666,"date":"2026-04-05T02:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/375666\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:51:14","slug":"senegal-cuts-official-travel-as-high-oil-prices-put-new-pressure-on-budget-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/375666\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal cuts official travel as high oil prices put new pressure on budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Senegal-cuts-official-travel-as-high-oil-prices-put-new-pressure-on-budget-2028776?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/54277216.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ousmane Sonko is the Prime Minister of Senegal\" title=\"Ousmane Sonko is the Prime Minister of Senegal\" width=\"295\" height=\"145\" \/> <\/a>Ousmane Sonko is the Prime Minister of Senegal<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Speaking at a youth event in the coastal city of Mbour, Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko pointed to the escalating prices of oil to justify the measure.<\/p>\n<p>Sonko said he had canceled his own planned trips to Niger, Spain and France, Reuters reported, in an effort to cut costs.<\/p>\n<p>Oil prices have edged close to $115 a barrel from about $80 before the war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The west African country is facing a financial squueze since the termination of a lending program by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over debt misreporting.<\/p>\n<p>The country faces a budget deficit of nearly 14 percent of GDP and public sector debt estimated at 132 percent of national output at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The current government accuses the administration of ex-president Macky Sall, who ruled from 2012 until 2024, of having concealed the true extent of the budgetary situation.<\/p>\n<p>An International Monetary Fund team that visited Senegal a year ago confirmed that officials had made false statements regarding budget deficits and public debt for the 2019\u20132023 period.<\/p>\n<p>The IMF has suspended a $1.8-billion aid programme it had agreed in 2023, pending further information and commitments from Senegal&#8217;s new authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ousmane Sonko is the Prime Minister of Senegal Speaking at a youth event in the coastal city of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-375666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}