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	Kenya
Population:	52.44m
GDP:	$116.32bn
Debt:	67.55% of GDP (2024)

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Vol 65 No 17 |

KENYA

Kenyatta’s favourite minister plans presidential bid

14th August 2024

Challenging President Ruto after the protests, Fred Matiang’i has hired US lobbyists to help fend off legal cases

Former Interior minister Fred Matiang'i says he is preparing to run for Kenya’s presidency in 2027 after falling out with President William Ruto and having his Nairobi home...

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Vol 65 No 17 |

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Ratings downgrade adds to pressure on new Treasury minister Mbadi

7th August 2024

Risks to public finances multiply after the government’s u-turn on revenue measures in the Finance Bill

The decision by ratings agency Fitch to downgrade Kenya’s foreign currency sovereign rating, is the latest reminder that President William Ruto’s government will face international pressure to balance...

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Vol 65 No 16 |

KENYA

Raila names his price

1st August 2024

In a move to quell growing dissatisfaction with his government, President Ruto has nominated allies of the main opposition leader to his cabinet

Four ministries, including the Treasury, was the price Raila Odinga set for propping up William Ruto’s ailing presidency and to establish what is effectively Kenya’s first unity government...

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Vol 65 No 16 |

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Ruto battens down the hatches ahead of protests

23rd July 2024

After announcing the return of six senior ministers and threatening broadcasters, the President has taken a harder line

President William Ruto’s decision last week to bring back six of the senior ministers he had fired, particularly Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki, who many hold as culpable...

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Vol 65 No 15 |

KENYA

Ruto struggles to regain control

18th July 2024

Weeks of protests sparked by punitive tax hikes have morphed into a wider revolt, pushing the President on the defensive

The sense of chaos coming from State House in Nairobi is palpable. Having fired his government and accepted the resignation of Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome, President...

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Vol 65 No 15 |

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Ruto pledges cuts on state budgets and anti-graft action as he struggle to assert control

9th July 2024

The government will borrow more to keep the running after it scrapped the hated Finance Bill

The government will cut its budget by 177 billion shillings (US$1.4bn) over the next 12 months and borrow the rest of the KSh346bn ($2.7bn) in tax revenue that...

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Vol 65 No 14 |

KENYA

How the fiscal squeeze threatens the patronage machine

4th July 2024

After dropping the planned tax hikes, President Ruto insists he is listening to the protestors’ calls for change

As they regroup from the political defeat of 26 June, President William Ruto and his finance minister Njuguna Ndung’u are torn between the demands of a highly organised...

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Vol 65 No 14 |

KENYA

After the protestors won the tax war

4th July 2024

Wrongfooted by national demonstrations, state security officers are suspected of sabotage and running agents provocateurs

After their protests forced President William Ruto to abandon the government’s Finance Bill and its planned US$2.4 billion tax rises, the Generation Z activists face their own political...

Vol 65 No 14 |

KENYA

Youth revolt wins after Ruto scraps finance bill and pledges talks

26th June 2024

Government backs down over tax hikes but is accused of killing over 20 protestors after hundreds of thousands took to the streets

In response to the biggest national protest for decades – activists marched in 35 out of Kenya’s 47 counties – President William Ruto announced on 26 June he...

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Vol 65 No 14 |

KENYA

Ruto faces escalating crisis as many shot in Gen Z’s mass protests against tax hikes

25th June 2024

Ministers could impose curfews in big towns and cities as citizens report disruption to internet and phone services

At least five people have been shot, including a journalist, amid mass protests around parliament in Nairobi in what is turning into a rapidly escalating crisis for President...

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