In February 2024 Kenya received huge loans (1.5 billion US$) from the IMF and World Bank with the sole purpose of being able to pay the interest for older loans. These loans have a high interest rate of 10.5 %. As a result, in 2024 about 26% of the tax income will be used just to pay the interest on mainly Western loans, which is 379% of the spending on healthcare. As a result, the people in Kenya struggle to survive, there have been huge cuts in the fields of education and health, and many people are dying, only to keep the profit of the creditors up and running.
This must be stopped. More information: Debt and Kenya's Economic Crisis
Kenyans outside the Hague on June 27, 2024, in front of the International Criminal Court (ICC) demanding that they reopen Ruto's case.
We had a public online meeting with participants from Kenya and NL at the end of August 2024 which was well attended. If you want to receive the presentation, please send an email to info AT climatejusticesolidarity.nl
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