Senegal opened a two-day international conference Wednesday to confront the structural inequalities pushing Africa’s sovereign borrowing costs well above its actual fiscal risk, as economists warn the continent pays a steep price not for what it owes but for how it is perceived. The gathering in Dakar arrives weeks after a jarring episode reinforced that very argument. In early 2026, Fitch downgraded the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) …
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