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FILE - In this May 24, 2020 file photo, Sudanese worshippers gather for Eid al-Fitr prayers, the Muslim holiday which starts at the conclusion of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Khartoum, Sudan. The International Monetary Fund has signed off on Sudan’s economic reform program, a move that can eventually allow the highly-indebted African country receive debt reliefs and hence rebuild its battered economy. The IMF released a statement Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, saying that its staff will be monitoring the implementation of a “home-grown” economic restructuring program. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, file)

IMF endorses Sudan’s reform plan for battered economy

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, wearing a mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, arrives to meet Lebanese president Michel Aoun at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

French foreign minister: IMF only way out of Lebanon crisis

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

IMF: U.S. economy will drop 6.6% in 2020 in face of pandemic

By PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2019 file photo, workers stand on a platform at a Saudi Aramco oil separator processing facility in Abqaiq, near Dammam in the Kingdom's Eastern Province. The International Monetary Fund said in the latest outlook released Monday, July 13, 2020, that the Middle East’s energy producers are expected to earn $270 billion less in oil revenue compared to last year. That's as the region’s economic heavyweight, Saudi Arabia, sinks deeper into recession amid the coronavirus pandemic. Oil importing Mideast countries, which include Egypt, Jordan and Sudan, are expected to see average economic contraction of 1.1%, but inflation is expected to reach 10%. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

IMF: Mideast loses $270B oil income amid virus, recession

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

An anti-government protester shouts at riot police, near the scene where a Lebanese man killed himself on Beirut's commercial Hamra Street, apparently because of the deteriorating economic and financial crisis in the country, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 3, 2020. The man left a note that reads in Arabic: &quot;I am not heretic but hunger is heresy,&quot; words taken from a Lebanese song. Security officials said they were investigating the incident and motives for his suicide. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

IMF calls on Lebanese to unite behind government reform plan

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Alain Bifani, the director general of Lebanon's Finance Ministry and a member of the country's team negotiating with the International Monetary Fund, speaks during a press conference, at the Press Club, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, June 29, 2020. Bifani who had held the post for 20 years resigned on Monday amid a worsening economic and financial crisis, the ministry said. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Senior Lebanese finance official resigns amid crisis

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

A broker watches his screens at a brokerage firm in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, March 9, 2020. As fear grips global financial markets, sending stocks, bond yields and oil prices diving, Latin America is bracing for an economic fallout that could test the resilience of the beleaguered region's already sluggish economy. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

IMF forecasts deeper Latin America recession in 2020

By DAVID BILLER and MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

In this Feb. 14, 2020, file photo, Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, attends a session on the first day of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany. The International Monetary Fund has sharply lowered its forecast for global growth this year because it envisions far more severe economic damage from the coronavirus than it did just two months ago. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File)

IMF downgrades outlook for global economy in face of virus

By Martin Crutsinger - Associated Press

225 VIPs urge world powers to adopt $2.5 trillion COVID plan

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE- In this file photo taken Thursday, April 30, 2020, Women carrying their children lineup to receive vegetables from the Jan Hofmeyer community services in the Vrededorp neighborhood of Johannesburg. South Africa is struggling to balance its fight against the coronavirus with its dire need to resume economic activity. The country with the Africa’s most developed economy also has its highest number of infections — more than 19,000. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, file)

UN chief warns leaders pandemic may cause historic famine

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a face mask to protect against coronavirus, discusses the COVID-19 situation in the country with officials in his office in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday April 22, 2020. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Ukraine approves law on banks in a bid for IMF aid

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FILE - In this June 19, 2019 file photo, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi speaks during a press conference in Bucharest, Romania. Amnesty International says that journalism in Egypt has effectively become a crime over the past four years, as authorities clamp down on media outlets and muzzle dissent. The London-based rights group said in a report Sunday, May 3, 2020 that as the number of coronavirus infections in Egypt continues to rise, the government is strengthening information controls, instead of upholding transparency during the health crisis. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

IMF approves $2.77 billion to help Egypt with virus fallout

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A Lebanese army soldier throws a tear gas canister towards anti-government protesters in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Hundreds took part in the funeral of a young man killed in riots overnight in Tripoli that were triggered by the crash of Lebanon's national currency that sent food prices soaring. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

IMF chief says talks with Lebanon on reforms to begin soon

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

A Lebanese army soldier throws a tear gas canister towards anti-government protesters in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Hundreds took part in the funeral of a young man killed in riots overnight in Tripoli that were triggered by the crash of Lebanon's national currency that sent food prices soaring. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese PM says Cabinet will seek IMF financial assistance

By ZEINA KARAM and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 30, 2017, file photo, a Standard Gauge Railway cargo train rides from the port container depot on a Chinese-backed railway costing nearly $3.3 billion, opened by Kenya's president as one of the country's largest infrastructure projects since independence, in Mombasa, Kenya. African leaders in 2020 are asking what China can do for them as the coronavirus pandemic threatens to destroy economies across a continent where Beijing is both the top trading partner and top lender. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi, File)

China silent amid global calls to give Africa debt relief

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

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The International Monetary Fund should not bail out Iran

By Jed Babbin

In this April 8, 2020 photo, laborers wear facemasks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus as they look at job postings at a labor market in Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong Province. China has reported its biggest economic decline since the 1970s as it fought the coronavirus in the first quarter of the year. (Chinatopix via AP)

IMF, World Bank pledge help amid calls for more debt relief

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

‘A crisis like no other’: IMF facing huge demand for support

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

A staff member talks on his mobile phone at the Dubai Financial Market in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, March 9, 2020. Saudi Arabia closed off air and sea travel to nine countries affected by the new coronavirus Monday as Mideast stock markets tumbled over fears about the widening outbreak's effect on the global economy. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Mideast economies battered by virus, oil prices and conflict

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

A highway is empty of cars during a lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, April 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

IMF projects Lebanon’s economy will shrink 12% in 2020

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press