New African Ratings Agency to Be Headquartered in Mauritius

Mauritius will host the headquarters of the Africa Credit Rating Agency, a new continental initiative to provide alternative assessments of repayment risk that will start operating by the second quarter of 2026.

“AfCRA will be a fully African-owned and private-sector entity,” Marie-Antoinette Rose-Quatre, chief executive officer of the African Peer Review Mechanism — an African Union structure — told an AU conference in Johannesburg on Thursday. “It will operate independently.”