Ratings agency Moody’s warns Kenya’s debt costs are sky-high as government leans of domestic money market

Ratings agency Moody’s warns Kenya’s debt costs are sky-high as government leans of domestic money market

Kenya will hold another round of talks with IMF officials in September in a bid to clinch the programme, the central bank chief Kamau Thugge said last month.

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As African leaders fret about biased credit rating, here’s how continent’s craving for modernity fuelled debt bomb

As African leaders fret about biased credit rating, here’s how continent’s craving for modernity fuelled debt bomb

Essential to the plan were the “Big Three” US-based credit rating agencies – S&P Global Ratings, Moody’s Ratings and Fitch Ratings, which together account for more than 90 per cent of global ratings. The rating agencies collected fees for their services and began applying their complex analyses to the region.

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