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DatabankAugust 5 2021

Rwanda’s banks hunker down as Covid-19 bites

Fitch recently revised Rwanda’s outlook to negative from stable amid concerns about rising public sector debt.
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Rwanda raised $620m from investors on August 2 as it sold international bonds for only the second time. It is one of several African nations that have taken advantage of favourable bond market conditions as investors look to relatively high-yielding emerging market dollar bonds because of the plunge in developed country bond yields in recent weeks.

The sale of new 10-year debt drew more than $1.6bn of orders, according to the Financial Times.

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