Mali: Financial consolidation accelerates with a comprehensive domestic debt clearance programme
The Malian state is embarking on a new and decisive phase by announcing a massive settlement of 312 billion CFA francs in domestic debt over three months. This initiative, which mobilizes all outstanding payment authorizations from 2023 and 2024 along with targeted 2025 payments, serves a clear objective: to strengthen national financial stability and support the transformation dynamic undertaken by the authorities. Through this strategic choice, the country affirms a commitment to more rigorous, transparent governance firmly aimed at modernizing public finances.
This settlement program goes far beyond simple accounting rebalancing; it corrects structural weaknesses and restores a climate of trust essential for economic recovery.
Suppliers to the administration, actors in productive sectors, and financial institutions thus gain renewed visibility, while priority projects roads, hospital infrastructure, education, strategic inputs now benefit from more favorable conditions for their execution.
This move is part of a sustained effort continued by General Assimi Goïta since taking office.
Nearly 1,654 billion CFA francs has been paid since the end of September 2024 to reduce domestic debt, bringing the total stock down to 439 billion CFA francs.
This significant reduction illustrates the state’s determination to return to disciplined and sovereign public management.
The results from the mining sector audit, which freed up new resources, mark an important transition for Mali as it strengthens its financial autonomy by relying on its own wealth and revisiting governance models that long limited its potential.
The 2025 fiscal year extends this momentum. With over 1,302 billion CFA francs allocated to domestic debt payment and more than 1,249 billion CFA francs earmarked for overall debt repayment in the amended finance law, the state confirms its direction: to stabilize in order to build better.
This choice affirms a long-term vision based on predictability, transparency, and efficiency.
Thus, this special program becomes the concrete illustration of a Mali that is strengthening itself, asserting its economic sovereignty, and profoundly modernizing its public practices a nation advancing methodically, opening new horizons in governance, and consolidating the foundations of its development.
Neil CAMARA
