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

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Vol 64 No 11 |

KENYA

Back from the cold, Kamau Thugge chosen for Bank governor

17th May 2023

Facing financial woes, President Ruto has brought back a front-rank orthodox economist to run the central bank

Former Treasury technocrat Kamau Thugge's rehabilitation looks complete after President William Ruto nominated him to replace the retiring Patrick Njoroge as governor of Kenya's central bank.

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Vol 64 No 11 |

KENYA

Jobs for the spouses

25th May 2023

Cronyism is nothing new in Kenyan politics and the latest move to raise eyebrows was President William Ruto's decision this week to nominate Mary Chebukati Wanyonyi, wife of...

Vol 64 No 10 |

KENYA

What does Raila Odinga want?

10th May 2023

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 immediate predecessors...

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Chancellor Scholz seeks cooperation with Africa on tech and green energy

9th May 2023

Europe's biggest economy is getting more serious about Africa ahead of its hosting of a finance summit with France

During his three-country tour of East Africa on 4 May, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz became the latest European leader to give its support for a permanent African Union's...

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Vol 64 No 10 |

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Cult and politics

11th May 2023

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...

Vol 64 No 9 |

KENYA

Ruto's credit slumps amid cash flow crisis

27th April 2023

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...

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Vol 64 No 9 |

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Dialling for dollars

18th April 2023

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...

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Careless talk about 'ruthless' Ruto

18th April 2023

The leak of a caustic aside by the deputy head of the UN triggers a diplomatic furore

Of the over 500-gigabyte cache of classified defence documents in the so-called Pentagon leaks, a conversation between UN Secretary-General António Guterres and his deputy Amina Mohamed, a former...

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Vol 64 No 8 |

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Odinga steps up demands on election reform after Ruto blinks

5th April 2023

President Ruto has agreed to bipartisan talks about the electoral commission but rejects all the other opposition demands

After winning a commitment by President William Ruto to debate reform of the electoral commission in parliament, opposition leader Raila Odinga is demanding that the talks should include...

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UNITED STATES

The art of a deal

13th April 2023

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...

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