To meet its funding needs, which have increased significantly, Bamako is focusing heavily on the local market in the face of the difficulty of accessing international financial markets.

Mali wants to come back strong in 2023 after being cut off from the regional financial market during the first half of the previous year. He is thus continuing the steady pace of his incursions recorded throughout the 2nd half of 2022. Indeed, in order to repay its outstanding payments and finance its budget deficit, the Sahelian country had managed to mobilize 785 billion CFA francs ($1.3 billion) over only five months of intervention.

Information provided by the Malian delegation at the 5th Public Securities Market Meetings (REMTP 2023) held from 24 to 26 January in Dakar mention that the Malian executive plans to mobilize more than 1 359 billion FCFA ($2.26 billion) from the regional financial market. An amount that represents more than 60% of the 2023 budget, which has been increased to 2,200 billion FCFA ($3.65 billion), an increase of 10%.

Mali, which was making a strong comeback in the regional market after being weaned from it for more than 6 months last year, mobilized 94 billion FCFA ($156 million) in BAT, 361 billion FCFA ($600 million) in equivalent Treasury bonds (OAT) and 330 billion FCFA ($548 million) in borrowing syndicated bonds.