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News Kenya » Finance: Kenya’s $160 Million Thamani Asili Plan Draws Walmart billionaire Rob Walton, Cargill Backing

News channel or source: https://ceoworld.biz/2026/10/24/kenyas-160-million-thamani-asili-plan-draws-walmart-billionaire-rob-walton-cargill-backing/
Published on: Friday 23 October 2026

Kenya has committed to one of the largest conservation financing arrangements in its history. On October 21, in Taita Taveta county, home to much of the ...

News Kenya » Finance: Kenya seeks fresh World Bank and AfDB financing to support budget through June 2027

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/kenya-seeks-fresh-world-bank-and-afdb-financing-to-support-budget-through-june-2027/ar-AA2euaTU
Published on: Sunday 18 October 2026

Kenya is negotiating fresh financing with the World Bank and African Development Bank (AfDB) to support its budget, with new external funds expected before the end of the financial year in June 2027, ...

News Kenya » Finance: Kenya seals $160 million conservation finance deal

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/kenya-seals-160-million-conservation-finance-deal/ar-AA2fKIIy
Published on: Wednesday 21 October 2026

By Marc Jones LONDON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Kenya's government and a group of donors have signed a $160 million conservation programme aimed at protecting 173,000 square km (17.3 million hectares) of ...

News Kenya » Finance: Kenya climbs to fifth in Africa's financial markets ranking as NSE trading surges

News channel or source: https://techtrendske.co.ke/2026/10/19/kenya-financial-markets-africa-index-2026/
Published on: Sunday 18 October 2026

Kenya ranks fifth in the 2026 Absa Africa Financial Markets Index as equity and bond trading strengthen and the NSE lists its first dollar-denominated instruments. Market depth and pension development ...

News Kenya » Finance: Kenya Finance Bill: Government bows to pressure, drops contentious tax proposals

News channel or source: https://www.theafricareport.com/352147/kenya-finance-bill-government-bows-to-pressure-drops-contentious-tax-proposals/
Published on: Tuesday 18 June 2024

The Finance Bill 2024, which proposes a raft of new increased taxes and has sparked discontent in Kenya, was tabled for debate in the Parliament in Nairobi Tuesday morning. As part of the bill, the ...

News Kenya » Finance: Kenya dispatch: controversial finance bill nears parliamentary passage amid protests and questions

News channel or source: https://www.jurist.org/news/2023/06/kenya-dispatch-controversial-finance-bill-nears-parliamentary-passage-amid-protests-and-questions/
Published on: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Kenya. For quite some time now, there has been one major issue that has been plaguing the minds of many Kenyans. That issue is the proposed Finance ...

News Kenya » Finance: Kenya seals $160m conservation finance deal

News channel or source: https://www.businessday.co.za/world/africa/2026-10-21-kenya-seals-160m-conservation-finance-deal/
Published on: Wednesday 21 October 2026

London — Kenya’s government and a group of donors have signed a $160m conservation programme aimed at protecting 17.3-million hectares of some of the most complex and least disturbed natural ...

News Kenya » Finance: Kenya’s new cabinet: finance minister faces an uphill battle against corruption, unemployment and debt

News channel or source: https://theconversation.com/kenyas-new-cabinet-finance-minister-faces-an-uphill-battle-against-corruption-unemployment-and-debt-233887
Published on: Thursday 25 July 2024

Kenya faces difficult times ahead because of pressure to pay debts, create jobs for the youth, offer improved services to citizens and uproot entrenched corruption. The tough journey on the new path ...

News Kenya » Finance: Kenya’s New Finance Boss Now Has to Push Policies He Opposed

News channel or source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/kenya-finance-boss-tasked-pushing-142430182.html
Published on: Thursday 25 July 2024

(Bloomberg) -- John Mbadi, the accountant that Kenya's president nominated to head the Treasury, may lack international standing but analysts reckon he's probably the right political choice to push ...

News Kenya » Finance: Kenya finance minister arrest shines light on infrastructure debt

News channel or source: https://www.theafricareport.com/15545/kenya-finance-minister-arrest-shines-light-on-infrastructure-debt/
Published on: Monday 22 July 2019

The arrests also offered a window into the more problematic side of Kenya’s appetite for public debt. Henry Rotich, the Cabinet Secretary for Treasury, and his Principal Secretary Kamau Thugge were ...

News Kenya » Finance: Kenya Waits as the Finance Act Goes to Court: Considering the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

News channel or source: https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2023/07/shirley-genga-kenya-finance-act/
Published on: Thursday 27 July 2023

The last four or so weeks have been dramatic in Kenyan corridors of power because of the controversial Finance Act, 2023. It is not only one of the first major laws that was pushed through by the new ...