Will Africa’s financial stability fund rise to the debt challenge?

The headquarters of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on January 30, 2020.

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Angola will use its chairmanship of the African Union this year to advance the creation of a continental financial stability mechanism, its finance minister said, to cushion economies from sliding into a liquidity crisis due to external debt repayments.

Here are some key aspects of the proposed African Financing Stability Mechanism (AFSM):