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Inside William Ruto-IMF fallout
President Ruto's government is resisting IMF demands for a painful debt restructuring, setting the stage for a high-stakes confrontation with the global lender.
By Brian Ngugi
2026-03-10 08:10:00
By Graham Kajilwa
2026-03-10 08:00:00
The government’s IPO of Kenya Pipeline Company has breathed some life into Kenya’s equity market, with the share sale setting the stage for a new wave of State-backed listings at the NSE.
By Macharia Kamau
2026-03-10 08:00:00
Kenya has been excluded from a new, ambitious $972 million (Sh125.38 billion) regional World Bank programme designed to tackle youth unemployment.
By Brian Ngugi
2026-03-03 08:20:00
A protracted legal war that began in 2016 between businessman Peter Burugu’s Bia Tosha Distributors Limited and Kenya’s leading brewer has evolved into a long-running commercial dispute.
By Kamau Muthoni
2026-03-03 08:00:00
The sale of government assets and the proposed establishment of Infrastructure Fund appear to give ammunition to critics of President William Ruto to poke holes into his economic policies.
By Macharia Kamau
2026-03-03 06:00:00
President Ruto's Sh4.7 trillion budget plan is designed to balance the demands of a fiscally constrained government against the immediate needs of restless Kenyans ahead of the elections.
By Brian Ngugi
2026-02-24 08:30:00
On December 13, 2023, a truck left Mastermind Tobacco Ltd’s premises in Nairobi with at least 1,150 cartons of SuperMatch cigarettes, however they vanished between Eldoret-Malaba highway.
By Kamau Muthoni
2026-02-24 08:20:00
The government is pursuing creative financing options to extend the SGR from Naivasha to Kisumu and to the Ugandan border at Malaba without relying on new debt from external lenders.
By Esther Dianah
2026-02-24 06:00:00
The dealings between Kenya Railways and Afristar, which operates the SGR, are again under scrutiny as an internal audit points to breaches in the public finance management laws.
By Macharia Kamau
2026-02-17 08:15:00
A few years ago, when the Kenyan market was struggling to access dollars as inflation surged, the interest rate regime was the preferred capital mop-up tool for the government.
By Graham Kajilwa
2026-02-17 08:10:00
The adoption of electric vehicles might fuel the development of more toll roads as the government agonises over a new source of revenue to replace the Road Maintenance Levy Fund.
By Graham Kajilwa
2026-02-10 08:50:00
CBK faces a high-stakes decision on interest rates on Tuesday, caught between a cooling economy, a massive government borrowing plan, and mounting pressure to deliver affordable credit.
By Alexander Chagema and Brian Ngugi
2026-02-10 08:35:00
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