{
  "id": 8639442,
  "title": "São Tomé Growth Cut to 0.4% by an Unpaid Fuel Bill",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/sao-tome-growth-cut-to-0-4-by-an-unpaid-fuel-bill",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-19T22:10:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Rio Times",
    "slug": "the-rio-times",
    "url": "https://www.riotimesonline.com/sao-tome-imf-growth-power-crisis-2026-2/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The IMF cut São Tomé and Príncipe's growth forecast to 1% for 2025 and 0.4% for 2026, blaming chronic power outages, and agreed about US.1 million in support. The post São Tomé Growth Cut to 0.4% by an Unpaid Fuel Bill appeared first on The Rio Times .",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}