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Yahoo
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Connie Britton wants White Lotus return
Connie Britton wants to return to 'The White Lotus' - but only if it is filmed in Aspen. The 58-year-old actress revealed she has been in talks with showrunner Mike White about reprising her season one role as tech boss Nicole Mossbacher for another instalment of the satirical anthology series, but admitted it isn't easy because of the needs of her 14-year-old son Eyob. She told Us Weekly magazine: 'I keep telling them, 'Listen, when you're ready to do 'White Lotus: Aspen', let's do it.' I can pull that off. 'I have talked for several years to Mike White about shooting another season of that show, which I would love to do. 'We shot that [first season] during COVID. So my son was able to go with me when we shot it. 'He would do COVID Zoom school starting at 5:00 a.m. from Hawaii. But that show now means you go spend six months in Thailand to shoot [a season].' Connie admitted taking that much time away from home is "not realistic" right now. She said: 'As much as I would love to do it. It's a whole thing. I've definitely had to say no to [other jobs before].' The actress adopted Eyob as a single parent while starring in 'Nashville' and she admitted it was a "traumatising" time because she had thought she could continue to keep working as she had done before without realising how much her baby would need her. She said: 'I just went off to Nashville and started shooting the show, and I had this baby and I didn't even really know how to be a mother yet. 'It was kind of traumatising because I had no support system in Nashville, and I was working, you know, sometimes 15, 16, 17 hours a day, and it was a lot of work. "I realised that that was one of the things that still sticks out to me is when you first become a parent, the learning curve of, 'Oh, I need to think about things differently now and I need to make choices differently now because now I am thinking for a whole other person who can't think for themselves.''
Perth Now
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Connie Britton wants White Lotus return
Connie Britton wants to return to 'The White Lotus' - but only if it is filmed in Aspen. The 58-year-old actress revealed she has been in talks with showrunner Mike White about reprising her season one role as tech boss Nicole Mossbacher for another instalment of the satirical anthology series, but admitted it isn't easy because of the needs of her 14-year-old son Eyob. She told Us Weekly magazine: 'I keep telling them, 'Listen, when you're ready to do 'White Lotus: Aspen', let's do it.' I can pull that off. 'I have talked for several years to Mike White about shooting another season of that show, which I would love to do. 'We shot that [first season] during COVID. So my son was able to go with me when we shot it. 'He would do COVID Zoom school starting at 5:00 a.m. from Hawaii. But that show now means you go spend six months in Thailand to shoot [a season].' Connie admitted taking that much time away from home is "not realistic" right now. She said: 'As much as I would love to do it. It's a whole thing. I've definitely had to say no to [other jobs before].' The actress adopted Eyob as a single parent while starring in 'Nashville' and she admitted it was a "traumatising" time because she had thought she could continue to keep working as she had done before without realising how much her baby would need her. She said: 'I just went off to Nashville and started shooting the show, and I had this baby and I didn't even really know how to be a mother yet. 'It was kind of traumatising because I had no support system in Nashville, and I was working, you know, sometimes 15, 16, 17 hours a day, and it was a lot of work. "I realised that that was one of the things that still sticks out to me is when you first become a parent, the learning curve of, 'Oh, I need to think about things differently now and I need to make choices differently now because now I am thinking for a whole other person who can't think for themselves.''
Zawya
29-04-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Ethiopia expects $3.4bln deal on IMF review within days
Ethiopia expects to reach a preliminary agreement on the third review of its $3.4 billion loan programme with the International Monetary Fund early this week and sees formal debt talks with bondholders starting in summer, State Finance Minister Eyob Tekalign told Reuters. The country, which struck a four-year, $3.4 billion programme IMF deal last July, is in the midst of a far-reaching reform push, including the floatation of its birr currency and a push to get its debt restructuring over the line. Speaking on the sidelines of the IMF and World Bank Group spring meetings in Washington, Eyob said he had met IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva as well as other staff to discuss progress on reforms.'They are very much pleased with how the programme is going,' said Eyob in an interview on Saturday. 'The results we've seen now were pleasant surprises, because we've over-achieved in many areas, whether it's in reserve accumulation, in inflationary trends or in export growth.'Eyob expected the Fund's executive board to sign off on the review in June - a step needed to trigger the next payout of the loan programme. Read: Ethiopia's tough new rules for foreign banksMeanwhile, talks in Washington with some holders of Ethiopia's sole $1 billion international bond had also been productive, he said, adding formal talks aimed at hammering out details of a debt rework could start in the summer.'We cannot get into substantive discussions, because they are waiting to see the latest DSA macro tables from the fund,' he said, referring to the IMF's debt sustainability analysis. Ethiopia in March reached a draft agreement with its official creditors on restructuring $8.4 billion of debt, but has been locked in a standoff with its bondholders. Bondholders and Ethiopia are at odds over whether the country is facing a liquidity issue, meaning it might only need more time to pay, or a solvency issue, which could require more debt writedowns known as haircuts. A draft deal with official creditors, which is expected to be finalised within months, gives the government more time to pay but stops short of an outright haircut in favour of focusing on payment extensions, lowering the debt service during the IMF programme and cutting interest levels. Eyob said the country had to follow the principle of comparability of treatment with other creditors.'Haircut or not, I think this is sometimes an unnecessary debate,' he said. 'The whole exercise is to help the country sustainably finance its development - that's the whole idea behind the debt treatment.'Ethiopia opted to restructure its external debt under the G20's Common Framework in 2021, before it defaulted on its sole Eurobond in December 2023. Eyob also said he was in talks with China's main trade policy banks - Export-Import Bank of China and the China Development Bank - over concessional financing for projects such as Addis Ababa's city rail and airport expansions. He also held meetings with the US International Development Finance Corporation.'We understand that they see us as one of the priority countries, so we should be able to see more investment from the U. S. side,' he said, adding discussions had focused around direct project financing as well as guarantees across a range of sectors, including energy. © Copyright 2022 Nation Media Group. All Rights Reserved. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (
TimesLIVE
28-04-2025
- Business
- TimesLIVE
Ethiopia expects preliminary deal on IMF review in days: finance minister
"We cannot get into substantive discussions, because they are waiting to see the latest DSA macro tables from the fund," he said, referring to the IMF's debt sustainability analysis. Ethiopia in March reached a draft agreement with its official creditors on restructuring $8.4bn (R156.98bn) of debt, but has been locked in a standoff with its bondholders. Bondholders and Ethiopia are at odds over whether the country is facing a liquidity issue, meaning it might only need more time to pay, or a solvency issue, which could require more debt writedowns known as haircuts. A draft deal with official creditors, which is expected to be finalised within months, gives the government more time to pay but stops short of an outright haircut in favour of focusing on payment extensions, lowering the debt service during the IMF programme and cutting interest levels. Eyob said the country had to follow the principle of comparability of treatment with other creditors. "Haircut or not, I think this is sometimes an unnecessary debate," he said. "The whole exercise is to help the country sustainably finance its development — that's the whole idea behind the debt treatment." Ethiopia opted to restructure its external debt under the G20's Common Framework in 2021, before it defaulted on its sole Eurobond in December 2023. Eyob also said he was in talks with China's main trade policy banks — Export-Import Bank of China and the China Development Bank — over concessional financing for projects such as Addis Ababa's city rail and airport expansions. He also held meetings with the US International Development Finance Corporation. "We understand that they see us as one of the priority countries, so we should be able to see more investment from the US side," he said, adding discussions had focused around direct project financing as well as guarantees across a range of sectors, including energy.
Reuters
28-04-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Exclusive: Ethiopia expects preliminary deal on IMF review within days, finance minister says
WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) - Ethiopia expects to reach a preliminary agreement on the third review of its $3.4 billion loan programme with the International Monetary Fund early this week and sees formal debt talks with bondholders starting in summer, State Finance Minister Eyob Tekalign told Reuters. The East African nation, which struck a four-year, $3.4 billion program IMF deal last July, is in the midst of a far-reaching reform push, including the floatation of its birr currency and a push to get its debt restructuring over the line. Speaking on the sidelines of the IMF and World Bank Group spring meetings in Washington, Eyob said he had met IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva as well as other staff to discuss progress on reforms. "They are very much pleased with how the program is going," said Eyob in an interview on Saturday. "The results we've seen now were pleasant surprises, because we've over-achieved in many areas, whether it's in reserve accumulation, in inflationary trends or in export growth." Eyob expected the Fund's executive board to sign off on the review in June - a step needed to trigger the next payout of the loan programme. Meanwhile talks in Washington with some holders of Ethiopia's sole $1 billion international bond had also been productive, he said, adding formal talks aimed at hammering out details of a debt rework could start in the summer. "We cannot get into substantive discussions, because they are waiting to see the latest DSA macro tables from the fund," he said, referring to the IMF's debt sustainability analysis. Ethiopia in March reached a draft agreement with its official creditors on restructuring $8.4 billion of debt, but has been locked in a standoff with its bondholders. Bondholders and Ethiopia are at odds over whether the country is facing a liquidity issue, meaning it might only need more time to pay, or a solvency issue, which could require more debt writedowns known as haircuts. A draft deal with official creditors, which is expected to be finalised within months, gives the government more time to pay but stops short of an outright haircut in favour of focusing on payment extensions, lowering the debt service during the IMF programme and cutting interest levels. Eyob said the country had to follow the principle of comparability of treatment with other creditors. "Haircut or not, I think this is sometimes an unnecessary debate," he said. "The whole exercise is to help the country sustainably finance its development - that's the whole idea behind the debt treatment." Ethiopia opted to restructure its external debt under the G20's Common Framework in 2021, before it defaulted on its sole Eurobond in December 2023. Eyob also said he was in talks with China's main trade policy banks - Export-Import Bank of China and the China Development Bank - over concessional financing for projects such as Addis Ababa's city rail and airport expansions. He also held meetings with the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation. "We understand that they see us as one of the priority countries, so we should be able to see more investment from the U.S. side," he said, adding discussions had focused around direct project financing as well as guarantees across a range of sectors, including energy.
