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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
Treasury seeks to push borrowing to Ksh.951.4 billion
By Kepha Muiruri, 1606, September 11, 2020 (EAT)
The National Treasury has proposed to push its planned borrowing across the 2020/21 fiscal year by 13.1 per cent to Ksh.951.4 billion from a previous ...

borrowing , coronavirus , Kenya's public debt , National Treasury
Treasury retires payments to its second M-Akiba bond investors
By Kepha Muiruri, 1625, September 7, 2020 (EAT)
The National Treasury has rounded off payments to the second investors in the mobile traded infrastructure bond dubbed M-Akiba. In a statement issu...

m-akiba , National Treasury
Treasury raises Ksh.120 billion from local borrowing in August
By Kepha Muiruri, 1519, August 20, 2020 (EAT)
The National Treasury continued to enjoy the abundance of liquidity in the market as it rounded off the mobilisation of Ksh.119.6 billion from the dom...

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) , domestic borrowing , National Treasury
Money in circulation grows by Ksh.203 billion in four months
By Kepha Muiruri, 1929, August 5, 2020 (EAT)
Money in supply within the Kenyan economy has defied the shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic expanding by Ksh.203 billion or an equivalent 30.7 per cent. ...

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) , COVID-19 , money in circulation
KRA’s annual tax collections Ksh.354 billion off original target
By Kepha Muiruri, 1030, July 18, 2020 (EAT)
Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) tax collections for the year ended June 30 were Ksh.354.1 billion off their original target as the tax man again missed ...

COVID-19 , Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) , National Treasury
BWIRE: Food security crucial amid Covid-19
By Victor Bwire, 1200, August 7, 2020 (EAT)
By Victor Bwire Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's focus has been on the containment of the outbreak, and with nearly all sect...

COVID-19 , food security
Eyes on new-loans growth as CBK stages rate meeting
By Kepha Muiruri, 1505, June 24, 2020 (EAT)
The focus of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) is expected to be on the growth of loans to Kenyans when it hosts its policy setting meeting on Thursday....

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) , government borrowing , private sector credit
Treasury ends annual local borrowing program on a high, raises Ksh.49 billion
By Kepha Muiruri, 1055, June 18, 2020 (EAT)
The National Treasury has closed its local borrowing program for the year ending June 30 on a high, raising Ksh.49.3 billion against a target of Ksh.4...

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) , domestic borrowing , National Treasury
DIAZ: 2020/2021 Kenya budget a short in the arm for local industry in advent of COVID-19
By Guest Writer, 1538, June 13, 2020 (EAT)
In spite of having featured as one of the four thematic development pillars for Kenya over the medium, manufacturing has been seen by many observers t...

budget , coronavirus , kicotec , PPEs