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US Envoy denies debt risk over Sh300 billion expressway

Ambassador Kyle McCarter. He maintains his country is committed to fulfill Trump, Uhuru pledge on road. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

The US government denied that developing a proposed expressway between Kenya’s biggest cities risks debt stress for the country as it plans to raise its borrowing ceiling to continue funding infrastructure projects.

While a local daily reported last month that the US government halted funding for the highway on concerns of mounting debt, the ambassador to Kenya denied this.

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