By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Video
SDNY COURTHOUSE, April 14 – When the International Monetary Fund held its biweekly embargoed press briefing on July 15, 2021 Inner City Press asked about crypto-currency legislation in Paraguay and again El Salvador, about the assassination in Haiti and COVID-19 lack of transparency in Cameroon. Then-spokesperson Gerry Rice responded on each. Short video on Twitter here; YouTube here.
Jump cut to the IMF's Spring Meetings on April 14, 2023. Inner City Press submitted a question for the Africa briefing, and tweeted it: "To IMF annual meeting, Inner City Press has just asked on WebEx about what the IMF calls "missed targets" - what is the status of Biya's audit of $335 million in missing COVID funds? Also, #Ambazonia. What *are* the "accelerated reforms" the IMF's Sayeh refers to?" See March 2023 answer to Inner City Press (on Tunisia) here. And so on Cameroon, watch this site.
Back on January 8, 2021 Inner City Press asked the IMF's Helge Berger, Mission Chief, about China's so-called Belt and Road Initiative: "Your Article IV report cites China's "overseas lending projects" amid "rising geopolitical tensions and economic and trade frictions." How does the IMF think that rising debt levels among African countries, and increased skepticism about the "Belt and Road" will impact or be addressed going forward? -Matthew Russell Lee, Inner City Press. Video here.
(An aside: Inner City Press has reported on the CEFC China Energy Fund Committee's activities in Chad and Uganda and in the UN, on which the UN is UNresponsive.)
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