{"id":178994,"date":"2024-08-22T03:35:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T01:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-fitch-believes-mozambique-presents-substantial-risks\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T03:35:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T01:35:47","slug":"mozambique-fitch-believes-mozambique-presents-substantial-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-fitch-believes-mozambique-presents-substantial-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Fitch Believes Mozambique Presents &#8216;Substantial Risks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Maputo \u2014 The Fitch ratings agency, based in both New York and London, believes that the Mozambican state still presents &#8220;substantial risks&#8217; as a result of its high public debt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">As a result of these indicators, the agency decided, on Friday, to keep Mozambique&#8217;s rating at CCC+, three levels above Default.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;This reflects high levels of public debt, weak management of public finances, low GDP per capita, weak external finances, weak governance indicators and a challenging security situation&#8217;, reads&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408120601.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 The Fitch ratings agency, based in both New York and London, believes that the Mozambican state still presents &#8220;substantial risks&#8217; as a result of its high public debt. As a result of these indicators, the agency decided, on Friday, to keep Mozambique&#8217;s rating at CCC+, three levels above Default. &#8220;This reflects high levels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,10209,21625,4704,682,257,6705,7349,254,28221],"class_list":["post-178994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-believes","tag-fitch","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-presents","tag-risks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-substantial"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}