American credit rating agency, Fitch Ratings has kept Kenya’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency (LTFC) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) ...

Moody’s suggests that Kenya’s fiscal sustainability is tied at the hip with the IMF and the World Bank with financing from ...

The financing from the World Bank is critical at a time when the government has found itself under mounting fiscal pressures demonstrated by missed revenue targets and the lack of a ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced that it has completed a two-week governance diagnostic mission in Kenya. The IMF’s technical assistance mission, led by Rebecca A. Sparkman ...

The government will hold another round of talks with IMF officials in September in a bid to clinch the programme, the central bank chief Kamau Thugge said last month.

“What Kenya and other IMF patients should do is to first make sure poor people get enough support for subsistence. Don’t touch that. And then try to increase the size of your economy,” he said.

At the request of the Kenyan authorities, an IMF Technical Assistance mission led by Rebecca A. Sparkman visited Kenya from June 16-30, 2025, to conduct a Governance Diagnostic. This mission followed ...

IMF staff and the Kenyan authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on economic policies to conclude the second reviews of the 38-month EFF/ECF financed program. Kenya would have access to ...

Diversifying funding sources, leaning on Asian lenders, domestic investors and new bond instruments form part of Kenya’s plan to fill financing gaps. Kenya plans to scale back its reliance on ...

IMF last week approved a Sh78.7 billion loan in a boost to Kenya’s war on the Covid-19 but warned the country against forgetting its high debt levels. Stay informed. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

The IMF's latest Fiscal Monitor projected that global public debt will grow 2.8 percentage points to 95.1% of global GDP in 2025. It said the upward trend was likely to continue, reaching 99.6% of ...

The IMF approved the disbursement of US$739 million to be drawn under the Rapid Credit Facility to support the authorities’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic; The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a ...