AU faults downgrade of Afrexim

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African Export-Import (Afrexim) Bank headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.

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The African Union is protesting what it calls a mischaracterisation of the financial status of the African Export-Import (Afrexim) Bank, whose credit rating has now been downgraded.

And the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), a governance programme of the African Union, said the decision by Fitch to lower the grade of the bank, often known as Afreximbank, was erroneous because it miscategorised credit.