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Kenya risks credit rating downgrade

The standard gauge railway is one of the mega infrastructure projects that have contributed to Kenya’s astronomical public debt. [Maarufu Mohamed, Standard]

Kenya’s high appetite for debt is a bigger risk to its sovereign credit rating than the recent General Election and its aftermath, according to an international rating agency.

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