Mozambique: Can the IMF Be a Lifeboat for Mozambique? - allAfrica.com
Aid to Mozambique has largely stopped and it cannot borrow. Last week Moody’s Ratings pushed Mozambique near to the bottom – Caa3 – ‘poor quality and very high credit risk’ – and in April Fitch Ratings dropped Mozambique to cc – ‘the level of default risk is among the highest’. The World Bank is one of the few remaining funders, and recently gave Mozambique $35mn to buy medicines.