Kenya considering Eurobond buyback in February or March, then return to money market – President Ruto

Kenya considering Eurobond buyback in February or March, then return to money market – President Ruto

Ruto also said the government was no longer counting on the Trade and Development Bank (TDB), an African development finance institution, to organise a $1 billion syndicated loan for Kenya, as initially planned.

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Defiant Kenyan president: We’ll deploy police to Haiti with or without court ruling

Defiant Kenyan president: We’ll deploy police to Haiti with or without court ruling

Kenya, which has a long history of taking part in international peace-keeping operations, stepped forward last July and committed 1,000 police officers, saying it was doing so in solidarity with a brother nation.

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No reciprocal arrangement: High Court declines plan to deploy Kenyan police to Haiti gangland

No reciprocal arrangement: High Court declines plan to deploy Kenyan police to Haiti gangland

The United Nations said this week that it had documented 4,789 people killed by gang violence in Haiti last year, an increase of 119 per cent from 2022, and that another 3,000 were kidnapped.

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Kenya joins league of countries in the world with massive deposits of rare mineral coltan

Kenya joins league of countries in the world with massive deposits of rare mineral coltan

Kenya has discovered its first deposits of the valuable mineral coltan, the mining minister has annouced. The rare mineral is used to manufacture electric car batteries, mobile phones and other electronic devices. The Democratic Republic of Congo holds more than 70 per cent of the world’s coltan reserves, which have...

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Public debt management head quits as Kenya grapples with inability to access foreign credit  

Public debt management head quits as Kenya grapples with inability to access foreign credit  

Kenya has been tackling acute liquidity challenges caused by uncertainty over its ability to access funding from financial markets before a $2 billion Eurobond matures in June this year.

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Haiti’s police union wary the under-gunned security force is losing ground to gangs

Haiti’s police union wary the under-gunned security force is losing ground to gangs

Kenya, the only country which has offered to lead the force, has sent officials to meet with Haitian security forces ahead of a court hearing this Friday set to decide whether it is legal for it to deploy to the Caribbean state.

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Donkey cart loaded with explosives kills a police officer, critically injures four others in Kenya

Donkey cart loaded with explosives kills a police officer, critically injures four others in Kenya

No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion immediately fell on al-Shabab, a Somalia-based extremist group linked to al-Qaida.

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Kenya cult leader charged with terrorism-related crimes in starvation deaths

Kenya cult leader charged with terrorism-related crimes in starvation deaths

A judge in a different court, in the coastal town of Malindi, ordered on Wednesday that Mackenzie and 30 of his associates be taken for mental health evaluations before being charged with murder in connection with 191 of the deaths.

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‘Visa by another name’, travellers to Kenya tetchy over $30 Electronic Traveller Authorisation fee

‘Visa by another name’, travellers to Kenya tetchy over $30 Electronic Traveller Authorisation fee

The government said the new system was in line with the country’s “security and other strategic interests” and was intended to “boost tourism and attract more foreign investment to Kenya.”

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