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Kenya’s credit rating downgraded on debt woes
By Kepha Muiruri, 1443, March 8, 2021 (EAT)
Kenya has earned yet another ratings downgrade over its rising debt vulnerabilities with the Standards & Poor's (S&P) lowering the country’s...

credit rating , Kenya's debt distress , National Treasury , Standards and Poor's
Treasury misses Ksh.18B target on February second bond offer
By Kepha Muiruri, 1401, February 18, 2021 (EAT)
The National Treasury has missed its target of raising Ksh.18 billion from its second-stab in February’s bond sale. Having initially fallen shy o...

bond , debt , Treasury
New IMF, World Bank loans trim Kenya’s debt refinancing risks
By Kepha Muiruri, 1541, February 16, 2021 (EAT)
Kenya’s change of tact to re-integrate cheap financing from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank has served to trim the country�...

2021 MTDS , debt refinancing , National Treasury
Inside gov’t Ksh3.5 trillion 2021/22 spending plan
By Kepha Muiruri, 1607, February 15, 2021 (EAT)
Kenya’s 2021/22 budget is expected to top Ksh.3.5 trillion with National Treasury divulging details to the spending plans in the 2021 Budget Policy ...

2021/22 budget , Kenya debt , National Treasury
Kenya’s debt repayment costs jump by Ksh53.7B
By Kepha Muiruri, 1432, February 12, 2021 (EAT)
Kenya’s debt repayment costs in the year ending on June 30 have shot up by Ksh.53.7 billion in spite of relief on external repayments. According ...

debt , Treasury , Yatani
Treasury seeks redemption in Ksh.18 billion February bond-tap sale
By Kepha Muiruri, 838, February 11, 2021 (EAT)
The National Treasury has sought Ksh.18 billion in additional borrowing from the domestic market having fallen short of its initial target to raise Ks...

local borrowing , National Treasury
Kenya adds Ksh.1.2T to debt stock in 2020
By Kepha Muiruri, 1549, February 1, 2021 (EAT)
Kenya added Ksh.1.2 trillion to its debt portfolio in 2020 as the country’s stock of debt hit Ksh.7.3 trillion in December from Ksh.6 trillion a yea...

coronavirus , debt
Treasury eyes Ksh.50 billion from February bonds
By Kepha Muiruri, 1755, January 27, 2021 (EAT)
The National Treasury has set its sights on raising Ksh.50 billion in locally contracted debt from the sale of bonds in February. The Central Bank ...

local borrowing , National Treasury
CBK to leave the benchmark rate unchanged at 7 per cent
By Kepha Muiruri, 1821, January 25, 2021 (EAT)
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) is expected to largely retain the benchmark lending rate at seven per cent for most of 2021. The reserve bank whose...

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) , Central Bank Rate (CBR)
Treasury bags Ksh.137B from bonds in January
By Kepha Muiruri, 1417, January 21, 2021 (EAT)
The National Treasury has continued to find easy pickings from the local debt market having added another Ksh.81.1 billion from an infrastructure bond...

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) , domestic borrrowing , National Treasury
Debt pain as interest payments now eat up 30pc of revenues
By Kepha Muiruri, 1645, January 19, 2021 (EAT)
For every 100 shillings in tax collected, the government is channelling 30 shillings towards interest repayments on debt as Kenya’s debt pressure ti...

debt , IMF
Cash-strapped Treasury now faces highest domestic debt servicing costs
By Kepha Muiruri, 1833, January 15, 2021 (EAT)
A cash-strapped National Treasury is now facing its highest domestic debt servicing costs in the 2020/21 financial year. The exchequer is expected ...

domestic borrowing , National Treasury
Treasury eyes Ksh.75 billion from the local debt market in January
By Kepha Muiruri, 1242, December 23, 2020 (EAT)
The National Treasury has set its sights on tapping Ksh.75 billion from the local debt market in January 2021. The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) whic...

domestic borrowing , National Treasury
Treasury seeks redemption in December secondary bond sale, targets Ksh.22B
By Kepha Muiruri, 1404, December 15, 2020 (EAT)
Treasury has sought to save face through a secondary December bond offer following disappointing uptake of a primary bond offer earlier this month. ...

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) , domestic borrowing , National Treasury
Treasury collects a lower Ksh.18.3B from December bond sale
By Kepha Muiruri, 1450, December 10, 2020 (EAT)
The National Treasury has closed the 2020 local borrowing program on a low, tapping Ksh.18.3 from the domestic debt market. This in comparison to t...

domestic borrowing , National Treasury
Treasury eyes Ksh.40 billion from local borrowing in December
By Kepha Muiruri, 1857, December 1, 2020 (EAT)
The National Treasury has set Ksh.40 billion as its local borrowing target during the month of December. The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) which exec...

CBK , National Treasury
OPINION: The unspoken inequality of the COVID-19 pandemic
By Guest Writer, 1401, October 28, 2020 (EAT)
By Levi Gikandi 243 days ago, on a feverishly hot Wednesday afternoon, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta stood in the manicured State House grounds w...

coronavirus , inequality , inua jamii , Kibera , Oxfam
Treasury CS Yatani raises 2020/21 budget to Ksh.2.9trillion
By Kepha Muiruri, 1330, October 19, 2020 (EAT)
Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani is expected to submit a revised Ksh.2.92 trillion 2020/21 supplementary budget for approval by the National Ass...

budget , National Treasury , Ukur Yatani
Kenya’s debt races past Ksh.7 trillion
By Kepha Muiruri, 1537, October 12, 2020 (EAT)
Kenya’s stock of debt zoomed past the Ksh.7 trillion mark in August wounding up at Ksh.7.1 trillion from a flat Ksh.6 trillion at the start of 2020....

debt crisis , National Treasury
Treasury seeks Ksh.50 billion from the local debt market in October
By Kepha Muiruri, 1323, September 30, 2020 (EAT)
The National Treasury will be seeking to raise Ksh.50 billion from the domestic debt market next month with the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) re-opening...

CBK , domestic borrowing , National Treasury