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Kenya

Population: 52.44m
GDP: $104bn
Debt: 73% of GDP (2024)

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What does Raila Odinga want?

The opposition leader has got the talks he demanded but that may not keep his supporters off the streets

After weeks of insisting that there would be no compromise and no 'handshake'-style deal with veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga, President William Ruto followed his two immedi...


Cult and politics

The discovery last month of mass graves bearing the bodies of more than 130 people near the popular tourist town of Malindi has shocked Kenyans. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge...


Ruto's credit slumps amid cash flow crisis

Public sector wages arrears have exposed the scale of the government's debt burden and revenue problems

The failure to pay the March wages of civil servants, teachers and politicians has blown a hole in the economic management record of President William Ruto's government after just ...


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Dialling for dollars

Financial pressures are mounting on President William Ruto's government but his chief economic advisor rules out debt restructuring

The Treasury in Nairobi says that it is expecting some $1.9 billion in emergency funding from the World Bank, the IMF and a consortium of foreign commercial banks over the next two...

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The art of a deal

Kenya expects to complete a trade deal with the United States by the end of this year, the first bilateral pact inked by President Joe Biden's administration, say officials involve...


Ruto gets the freight train blues

The Mombasa-Nairobi trains are full, but repaying the debts on the loss-making railway is stretching the state treasury

Many see the new Standard Gauge Railway from the capital to the coast as a disaster for public finances but that has not stopped Kenyans from enthusiastically using it.


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President Ruto widens the tent

Offering deals and political jobs, the ruling party is getting key opposition politicians to defect

President William Ruto continues to win over supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga in his traditional strongholds in Nyanza. The President recently gained the support of eig...

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