{"id":229294,"date":"2026-04-02T02:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/africa-mozambique-becomes-africas-most-distressed-sovereign-as-spreads-surge\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:21:22","slug":"africa-mozambique-becomes-africas-most-distressed-sovereign-as-spreads-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/africa-mozambique-becomes-africas-most-distressed-sovereign-as-spreads-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Mozambique Becomes Africa&#8217;s Most Distressed Sovereign As Spreads Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Mozambique has overtaken Senegal as Africa&#8217;s most distressed sovereign borrower, as rising global energy costs add pressure to its finances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The country&#8217;s sovereign yield spread widened to 1,473 basis points, surpassing Senegal&#8217;s 1,423 basis points, according to data tracked by JPMorgan Chase. Spreads above 1,000 basis points are widely seen as a sign of distress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Mozambique&#8217;s $900 million bond due in 2031 has fallen to about 74.29 cents on the dollar after 13 consecutive days of losses. The yield&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604010771.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>Mozambique has overtaken Senegal as Africa&#8217;s most distressed sovereign borrower, as rising global energy costs add pressure to its finances. The country&#8217;s sovereign yield spread widened to 1,473 basis points, surpassing Senegal&#8217;s 1,423 basis points, according to data tracked by JPMorgan Chase. Spreads above 1,000 basis points are widely seen as a sign of distress. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229295,"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":[654],"tags":[258,256,6287,34303,4704,682,257,254,14649,13665,10716],"class_list":["post-229294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-distressed","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sovereign","tag-spreads","tag-surge"],"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\/229294","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=229294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}