{"id":5012,"date":"2023-10-07T09:15:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T13:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaparrot.com\/?p=5012"},"modified":"2023-10-07T09:15:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T13:15:45","slug":"kenyas-ruto-to-ask-china-for-1bn-loan-debt-restructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaparrot.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/07\/kenyas-ruto-to-ask-china-for-1bn-loan-debt-restructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s Ruto to ask China for $1bn loan, debt restructure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kenyan President William Ruto will ask China for a $1-billion loan and a restructured debt payment plan, his deputy said Friday, despite having criticized his predecessor&#8217;s heavy borrowing from Beijing.<\/p><div class=\"afric-content\" id=\"afric-1889288995\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schools.nyc.gov\/hello?utm_source=ecm-digital&#038;utm_medium=cpc&#038;utm_campaign=lac-dex-2026&#038;utm_content=french\" aria-label=\"French&#8212;300&#215;250\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/africaparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/French-300x250-1.gif?fit=300%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One of East Africa&#8217;s largest economies, Kenya has accumulated more than 10.1 trillion shillings ($68 billion) in debt, a figure equivalent to 67 percent of its gross domestic product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cost of servicing the debt, mainly to China, has ballooned as Kenya&#8217;s currency has fallen to record lows of around 148 shillings to the dollar, according to treasury data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua said Ruto would travel to China and ask for &#8220;more time to repay the debt slowly&#8221; and $1 billion to complete road projects delayed by financing shortfalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are a responsible government, we can&#8217;t say that we won&#8217;t pay the debt,&#8221; Gachagua told a local language radio station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He will speak to them requesting at least one billion dollars to be able to pay contractors,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was not immediately clear when Ruto would make the trip to Beijing, but the president has not visited the East Asian economic giant since winning a closely fought election in August 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China is Kenya&#8217;s second-largest lender after the World Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beijing bankrolled Kenya&#8217;s most expensive infrastructure project since independence 60 years ago, loaning $5 billion to construct a railway line from the port city of Mombasa to Nairobi and Naivasha that opened in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also financed the construction of a new port terminal in Mombasa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The projects, among others, fuelled concerns that Nairobi was taking on more debt than it could afford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruto railed against the borrowing of his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta on the campaign trail, and pledged to find other ways to spur development to deliver the infrastructure Kenya needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China has rejected suggestions its lavish lending was trapping cash-strapped governments in debt dependency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a visit to Kenya in July, Beijing&#8217;s top diplomat Wang Yi praised the two countries&#8217; economic partnership and described it as a &#8220;win-win&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya is one of the most dynamic economies in East Africa but about a third of the population lives in poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Economic growth slowed last year to 4.8 percent from 7.6 percent in 2021, buffeted by the global fallout from Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, and a devastating regional drought that hit the country&#8217;s vital agriculture sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inflation has remained stubbornly high, at an annual rate of 6.8 percent last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July, global credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings downgraded Kenya&#8217;s ability to repay international lenders from &#8220;stable to negative&#8221;, citing tax hikes and social unrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9\ufe0f Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan President William Ruto will ask China for a $1-billion loan and a restructured debt payment plan, his deputy said Friday, despite having criticized his predecessor&#8217;s heavy borrowing from Beijing. 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