Inside Africa

Niger government has unlocked access to an additional loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) following a staff-level agreement on the ninth review of the country’s economic program supported by the Extended Credit Facility.

The World Bank Group, through its private-sector arm the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and Citi have signed a new 1.6 billion South African rand borrowing facility that will expand IFC’s ability to provide local currency (LC) financing in South Africa.

Moody’s Ratings has changed the Government of Ghana’s outlook to positive from stable and affirmed the long-term issuer ratings in local and foreign currency, as well as the foreign-currency senior unsecured debt ratings at Caa1.

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