Senegal will negotiate a debt reprofiling with creditors rather than a restructuring as it works to make its loans sustainable and qualify for an International Monetary Fund program. Prime Minister Ahmadou Al Aminou Lo told lawmakers in Dakar on Tuesday that the approach involves extending maturities and renegotiating interest rates to align debt service with the country's real capacity.

The distinction is significant: reprofiling adjusts terms without reducing principal, while restructuring typically involves haircuts. The West African nation aims to ease its financing needs through this process, which Bloomberg reporters Katarina Hoije and Moses Mozart Dzawu covered from the capital.