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Kenya offers to buyback $1 billion Eurobond maturing Feb. 2028

Kenyan government has announced it will return to the Eurobond markets to buy back its outstanding $1 billion Kes129 billion notes due February 2028. According to the offer published in the London Socks market, Kenya is making the buyback, as part of

October 2, 2025

Finance & Markets

Sokomoko Kibuye, the stink of toilet politics behind cholera shutdown

As the state attempts to dismantle this powerful woman it created out of its own inefficiency, it faces its inconsistencies in its justifications, and harms the consumer who benefits from the cut-throat competition of rival Kibuye traders that had made it the

May 7, 2025

Economy & Politics

Nandi, Kericho and Kisumu poorer than during Covid-19 shutdown

President Ruto’s government seems to have reversed the good fortunes when his Kenya Kwanza government turned from their manifesto promising jobs and instead adopted President Uhuru Kenyatta’s tax austerity and even imposed higher levels of taxation and income deductions.

January 15, 2025

Economy & Politics

The Rapprochement of Uhuru Kenyatta

He had directly been involved with the conceptualization of Eurobond post 2008 crisis, its inaugural issue when he became President in 2013 and had been responsible for the aggressive procurement of debt over the last decade. Kenyatta had then handed his deputy

May 20, 2024

Long Read

Private sector, “blink twice if you need help”; Part 1

President Uhuru Kenyatta had been adamant about going after the private sector openly. But his successor President William Ruto was not beholden to this private sector; and seen as a political outsider, he gave the IMF the most realistic opportunity to change

April 16, 2024

Uhuru

Kenya offers to buyback $1 billion Eurobond maturing Feb. 2028

Sokomoko Kibuye, the stink of toilet politics behind cholera shutdown

Nandi, Kericho and Kisumu poorer than during Covid-19 shutdown

The Rapprochement of Uhuru Kenyatta

Private sector, “blink twice if you need help”; Part 1

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