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Kenya Inks Kshs 407 Billion Loan from African Export-Import Bank

Dennis Otsieno by Dennis Otsieno
May 3, 2023
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Kenya signed three-year loan financing programme from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) yesterday at State House, Nairobi.

The fund is meant to cushion various sectors of the economy from external shocks.

National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung’u said the funds will ‘protect the market’ as the government looks to restructure the prices of sectors such as energy in the long term.

“This programme will help Kenya in supporting its liability management efforts by leveraging various instruments offered by the bank. In our liability management, it will help in solving the short term expensive commercial debt in favour of concessional funding,” said Ndung’u.

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Kenya is facing financial stress resulting from debt maturity pressures and rapidly rising debt-servicing costs in recent months, and is considering a variety of initiatives, including the issuance of another Eurobond, to address the problem.

The loan by Afrexim Bank comes under the Kenya Country Programme and will be channelled to food, fertiliser, debt management, climate change, digital economy and SMEs.

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The bank’s president and board chairman Benedict Oramah said the loan will be disbursed over a three-year period and will attract a varying interest depending on the initiative that will get the financing.

The lender said the financing will aid in the construction of an additional 200 dams in the country that will enable farmers irrigate and promote access to clean water.

The funds will be distributed to various sectors of the economy to help the government manage the economic challenges arising from by global impacts.

It will also promote the importation of critical commodities that are expected to lower the country’s high living costs while also supporting post-Covid recovery infrastructure projects and increasing industrialisation.

Trade and Industry Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria said part of the funds would also be channelled to the Kenya National Trading Corporation (KNTC) to aid in providing cheaper imports.

The loan will also go into manufacturing and agro-processing export development such as setting up industrial parks and promotion of intra-Africa trade under the African Continental Free Trade Area; an initiative of the African Union.

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