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Kenya’s economy slowed to 4.6% in 2025, missing targets as weak agriculture, manufacturing, rising fuel costs, debt pressure and climate shocks threaten 2026 growth.
William Ruto is under pressure after new data showed Kenya’s economic growth slowed to 4.6% in 2025, raising concerns over his tax policies.
Kenya plans to monetise indigenous knowledge via digitisation and partnerships to unlock a Sh230bn annual economy.
President Suluhu appeared to reprimand President Ruto, who announced plans to build a refinery in Tanga.
Kenya has cut the country’s economic growth forecast for 2026 to five per cent, citing the Middle East conflict that has driven up oil import costs and destabilised supply chains.
This is amid revelations that the Turkana oil project operator is exploring alternatives, including road and rail, to get the commodity to Mombasa.
It has been a case of outright lies and a public relations spin about fuel supply in the country for the last two months.
The consensus has always been that for their oil resources to make commercial sense, East African countries would need to pool and exploit the resource together.
The high-profile Africa-France Summit set to take place in Nairobi has come under heavy criticism, with civil society organisations terming it a reengineering of imperialism.
The upcoming Africa–France Summit in Nairobi has drawn criticism from civil society groups who accuse it of masking renewed foreign influence under development cooperation.
Motorists have in recent weeks been grappling with fuel shortages across the country.
Kenya’s diesel price has surged to a historic Sh242.92 per litre after Epra’s latest fuel review, raising fears of worsening inflation and a deeper cost-of-living crisis.
Kenya’s fuel crisis has exposed major weaknesses in the G-to-G fuel deal amid soaring prices and supply disruptions.
The petroleum industry regulator appears to have been sidelined this week during a key decision-making process that led to the change in the pump prices of diesel and kerosene.
Epra has increased the cost of using the pipeline to transport fuel from the Kenyan coast to the rest of the country.
Kenya plans to ramp up electricity imports from Ethiopia to reduce instances where some parts of the country have to endure outages as the national electricity grid struggles to meet demand.
President William Ruto is unwilling to cede a shilling of money raised through taxing petroleum products
The government owed the petroleum sector players more than Sh20 billion, with the bulk of the money at Sh13.74 billion incurred in the last two pricing cycles.
Kenya is renegotiating power purchase agreements to phase out costly take-or-pay clauses and require renewable energy producers to invest in battery storage systems.
Local aviation and logistics industry players have opposed clauses in the Finance Bill that remove tax exemptions for airlines.
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