Fiscal authorities brace for credit ratings’ decisions
Authorities at the Finance ministry are awaiting the results of recent engagements with Moody's and S&P, whose credit ratings assessment will determine the government’s costs and with that, the trajectory of the recovery in public finances.
Mbongeni Mguni
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11 September 2026
Inside the Sahel war economy
Yet by July 2026, over 1,000 tankers had reached the capital anyway, escorted by Russia’s Africa Corps and, increasingly, Turkish drones. Petrol that cost $25 a litre before September now costs $130. Somewhere between “blockade” and “a thousand tankers delivered under fire” is the real story: this was never a siege built to starve a capital. It is a toll booth, and the jihadists manning the checkpoints and the junta managing the convoys...