Senegal intends to allocate the budgets released to "financing health, social and economic expenditure" of its Resilience Program intended to combat the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the same source, while the South African country the West has recorded more than 4,500 coronavirus cases and 54 deaths.

Senegalese President Macky Sall had welcomed on April 17 with restraint the decision of the G20 to suspend the debt of the poorest countries, including many African states, but he had persisted in demanding the cancellation, "more than realistic" according to him, of this debt.

On Wednesday, however, Senegal "reaffirmed its commitment to comply with all of its contractual obligations vis-à-vis private sector creditors" and assured that it "does not plan to extend the ISSD to these last".

Faced with the plunge in the economy, the G20 had taken the unprecedented decision in mid-April to suspend for one year the repayments of the debt of the poorest countries weakened by the pandemic - an initiative since declined by the 22 countries of the Club of Paris, as well as by a handful of emerging creditors (China, India, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, South Africa).

Ethiopia, Chad, Republic of Congo and Pakistan obtained this suspension on Tuesday, after eight other countries such as Mali, Mauritania and Burkina Faso.

Nineteen other files should "result quickly", explained Wednesday before the announcement of Senegal the president of the Paris Club, Odile Renaud-Basso.