🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

We see three key implications of Mr. Trump’s election for Kenya’s macro: the shilling, financial stability, and IMF negotiations. Kwame Owino Mo Wanja

Amen Amen Amen. This is absolutely outrageous.

Another fancy job for a bureaucrat, with no additional voting power for Africa. Totally shameless.

Folks, one month from today, there will be a peaceful handover of power in the United States. In this blog post I, Mo Wanja and Peter Doyle , pontificate on What DJT's second term implies for Kenya. ieakenya.or.ke/blog/mr-trump-…

If only ratings upgrades were a sufficient indicator of success.

As it rolls in, let’s hope that 2025 is surprisingly good.

I learned today that Kenya has a space agency.

A-frikkin-men. The worst thing that happened to economics was when it submitted to the nation state ... which I date from Marshall.

.. and the abducted must remain abducted …

A beautiful African expression of one of my greatest puzzles … why we humans wait till until death to celebrate each other.

Marco’s murders.

Folks, my lesson from the messes and corruption within the judiciary is that tax payers may cough large sums for their pay and privileges, but integrity isn't available for purchase in stores.

 I make a brief appearance in the FT today commenting on US engagement with Africa post the assault on USAID. on.ft.com/3Fnbs69

So the rubber has hit the road: Kenya has abandoned its IMF program … in pursuit of another. It will find any successor just as unacceptable unless the IMF changes tack. reuters.com/world/africa/i…

… when you’ve lost CT …

But plenty funding for any number of new broad-based government departments of this that and the next thing.

Ndongo Samba Sylla and I take the IMF to task for the lamentable quality of its work on Senegal.

In the Oct 2024 IMF WEO, the IMF said that Kenya’s public debt at end-2024 would be 69.9 % of GDP. In the April 2025 IMF WEO, the IMF said that Kenya’s public debt at end-2024 was 65.6 % of GDP Oops. That’s 4% of GDP in 6 months, with no exchange rate change. Where did it go ?

Another way to understand this. In Oct 2024, the IMF projected what public debt would be by end year. The IMF now says that its Oct projection was wrong by 4% of GDP. How could the @IMF be so enormously wrong over such a short interval on the central target of its program?

Stunning Kenyans. apnews.com/article/london…