{"id":227142,"date":"2026-03-17T13:27:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-moodys-affirms-cote-divoire-ba2-rating-with-stable-outlook\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:27:35","slug":"cote-divoire-moodys-affirms-cote-divoire-ba2-rating-with-stable-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-moodys-affirms-cote-divoire-ba2-rating-with-stable-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Moody&#8217;s Affirms C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Ba2 Rating With Stable Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Moody&#8217;s Ratings affirmed C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s long-term sovereign rating at Ba2 with a stable outlook, citing strong economic growth and improvements in public financial management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The rating decision, confirmed on March 13, keeps the country among the higher-rated sovereign borrowers in sub-Saharan Africa. Moody&#8217;s said the rating reflects confidence in the government&#8217;s ability to service its debt despite economic and political challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The agency highlighted C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s growth model, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603170056.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moody&#8217;s Ratings affirmed C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s long-term sovereign rating at Ba2 with a stable outlook, citing strong economic growth and improvements in public financial management. The rating decision, confirmed on March 13, keeps the country among the higher-rated sovereign borrowers in sub-Saharan Africa. Moody&#8217;s said the rating reflects confidence in the government&#8217;s ability to service its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[8836,258,256,53930,5958,6183,6555,5959,1218,2426,257,10797,2428,254,10653],"class_list":["post-227142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-affirms","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ba2","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-moodys","tag-news","tag-outlook","tag-rating","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stable"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/227142","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}