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Kenya Airways Chairman Michael Joseph. (Photo: Boniface Okendo, Standard)
Kenya Airways is about to conclude its capital restructuring, its chairman said Wednesday, edging closer to putting past financial woes behind it, the carrier’s chairman said.
The airline, part-owned by the State and AirFrance KLM, sank into the red four years ago after tourism slumped following a spate of attacks in Kenya by militants from the Somalia-based al Shabaab Islamist group. Last year the carrier had negative equity of $339 million (Sh35 billion), Reuters data showed, and the business was sustained by shareholder loans.
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