Zimbabwe’s finance minister said the country plans to reserve (Bloomberg) around half of the $961 million disbursed in Special Drawing Rights from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to prop up its currency. The government abandoned a one-to-one peg to the U.S. dollar in 2019, and the value of the Zimbabwe dollar has since plunged.
Chad: Former President Hissene Habre, the first leader convicted of war crimes by an African Union court, died (News24) while serving a life sentence. He was seventy-nine. Senegalese media reported that he died due to complications from COVID-19.