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This from Ghana's then-finance minister:

As their nations’ finances faltered, African leaders lashed out at the rating agencies with allegations that the firms were biased in their assessments. We didn't find evidence of systemic bias in the Big Three’s ratings for the region.

Among the findings of our reporting: The push for credit ratings in sub-Saharan Africa set nations on a path to debt many could not afford. Over the past two decades, more than a dozen countries borrowed nearly $200 billion from overseas bond investors.

Given the troubled economic history and conditions of sub-Saharan Africa, it came as little surprise that the Big Three gave most countries below-investment-grade, or ‘junk’ ratings 4/4.

Essential to the plan were the ‘Big Three’ US-based credit rating agencies — S&P Global Ratings, Moody’s Ratings and Fitch Ratings. The rating agencies collected fees for their services and began applying their complex analyses to the region 3/4.

The United Nations, backed by the United States, had a plan to fuel the expansion: sovereign credit ratings. These metrics would for the first time allow a wide swath of the poorest region on Earth to tap yield-hungry investors in the global bond market 2/4.

In 2002, Africa seemed poised to rise. Creditor nations were wiping billions of unsustainable debt off the books of sub-Saharan countries, and global demand was surging for the commodities the region exports, supercharging hopes of an economic boom 1/4.

New story on Africa's debt disaster, with ace team .@tombergin_News, @libbyegeorge, @ldelevingne and @TomLasseter.

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