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Hundreds of protestors march in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum and call for the resignation of the transitional government after the government reduced bread and fuel subsidies in order to fulfill its obligations with the International Monetary Fund.
2021-06-30

Sudanese Finance Minister Ibrahim el-Badawi says Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is to ask the World Bank for US$2 billion. Sudan has been unable to do business with either the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund because it is featured on the United States' State Sponsors of Terrorism list. The US Congress is unlikely to remove Sudan before next year, el-Badawi further announces, saying he has been told the process is complicated.
2019-09-24

Christine Lagarde announces that she will step down as managing director of the International Monetary Fund on 12 September 2019.
2019-07-16

President of Argentina Mauricio Macri announces talks with the International Monetary Fund on financial support for the country's economy. The Central Bank of Argentina interest rate is now at 40%, inflation at 25% and the value of the Argentine peso at a record low.
2018-05-8

Greece has formally requested a new bailout loan from the International Monetary Fund.
2015-07-24

Former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn goes on trial in France on pimping charges.
2015-02-2

A court in France announces a delay of an investigation into whether Christine Lagarde abused her authority as Finance Minister of that country. Lagarde is the new Director of the International Monetary Fund.
2011-07-8

Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa issue a joint statement criticising Europe's 66-year stranglehold on the leadership of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), calling it "obsolete" and requesting that developing nations be given a chance.
2011-05-29

Christine Lagarde, the French Minister for Finance, announces her candidacy to be head of the International Monetary Fund.
2011-05-25

Austerity measures of pay cuts and pension freeze supported by the European Union and International Monetary Fund (IMF) cause civil servants to stage a 24-hour strike in Greece.
2010-10-7