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Senegal is one of several heavily indebted poor countries facing years of delays in debt relief for failing to comply adequately with IMF structural adjustment programs. The privatization of groundnut (peanut and other crops) agriculture is part of the restructuring required by the IMF and World Bank. Other countries stalled in their debt relief programs because of structural adjustment conditions include Malawi, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, SaoTomé & Principe, Honduras and Nicaragua. Over the past year almost half of the twenty countries in the IMF/World Bank debt relief program, the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative, have been stalled completely.