There has been much public discussion of debt distress in Africa recently with the finger often pointed at China. For the record, the
International Monetary Fund, identified as of 1 January 2018 the following African countries as currently in debt distress but did not assign any blame for the distress: Chad, South Sudan, Sudan, and Zimbabwe. The IMF identified the following countries as being at high risk of debt distress: Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Djibouti, Gambia, Ghana, Mauritania, Sao Tome and Principe, and Zambia.
