Kenya

No to IMF loans! Cancel Kenyan debt!

30 March 2020 - by David Calleb Otieno

On 4 March 2020, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) during a joint press conference with the World Bank Group announced that it was ready to lend $1 trillion to its members around the world that are struggling with the humanitarian and economic impact of the novel coronavirus. At the same (...)
Let us unite against micro-credits and illegitimate debt

4 March 2020 - by Sushovan Dhar

For every KSh 100 Kenya is collecting in tax revenue, it is spending KSh 130 to fund its budget needs, an overspending that is driving its voracious debt appetite to plug the shortfall. An analysis of the most recent expenditure data published by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) shows that Kenya (...)
Only a citizen’s audit of SGR debt will unravel public heist of resources

29 February 2020 - by David Calleb Otieno

Early this week, Kenyans woke up to blockbuster like stories of how prices of items and commodities related to the Kenyan Standard Gauge Rail (SGR) project were extremely inflated perhaps explaining why the Kenyan SGR is far much more expensive than the Tanzania SGR. According to the Daily (...)
Kangemi Declaration

14 February 2020 - by CADTM

We, the participants of the 2nd CADTM East Africa Regional Meeting from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania as well as from Morocco and India gathered at Kangemi, Nairobi in Kenya from 7 to 9 February 2020 do hereby acknowledge and affirm that illegitimate debt is a mechanism used to transfer wealth (...)
Alert on the sophistication of illegitimate debt techniques via mobile telephony

8 November 2019 - by Eric Toussaint

In the era of widespread mobile telephony, we witnessed certain capitalist firms employing a sophistication of techniques to ensure the illegitimate debt of the lower classes. Kenya, a country of 50 million people, is considered to be at the forefront of mobile telephony and digitalisation. (...)
Kenya: Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah

2 September 2019 - by Emma Park, Kevin P. Donovan

Kenya’s poor were among the first to benefit from digital lending apps; now they call it slavery. Across conversations in Kenya’s pubs and WhatsApp groups, debt is on everyone’s mind. The speed and ease of access to credit through new mobile apps delivers cash to millions of Kenyans in need, but (...)
Kenya: caught between debt and political indifference

1 May 2019 - by Sushovan Dhar

I reached Kenya on my way back from South Africa on April 13, 2019. This visit was a follow up of the earlier initiatives including a training on debt audit held at Nairobi, Kenya from July 29-30, 2018 in collaboration with the Kenyan Social Movements for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts. (...)
Proposed Solutions by the Dialogue Reference Group on Ballooning Kenyan Debts are False and Flawed

25 September 2018 - by David Calleb Otieno

The Kenyan Peasants League (KPL), a member of La Via Campesina and part of the Kenyan Social Movements for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts has been following closely the just concluded Dialogue Reference Group meeting that brought together a section of religious leaders and Kenyan civil (...)
National Dialogue on Kenyan Debts Must be Preceded by Citizen’s Debt Audit

10 September 2018 - by David Calleb Otieno

The Kenyan Peasants League (KPL) in collaboration with the Kenyan Social Movements for Abolition of Illegitimate Debts welcome the announcement by National Super Alliance (NASA) leaders Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka calling for a national dialogue on Kenyan debts that is already (...)
Kenya Should Ignore IMF Reform Package and Stop Repaying Debts

19 August 2018 - by David Calleb Otieno

The Kenyan Peasants League (KPL), a member of the La Via Campesina (LVC) is concerned about the reform package being pushed down the throat of Kenyan government by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that is already having adverse impacts on Kenyan citizens who are expected to pay more for (...)
CADTM successfully holds Citizen Debt Audit Training in Nairobi

19 August 2018 - by David Calleb Otieno

The Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts (CADTM) successfully held a three days training on Citizens Debt Audit in Nairobi, Kenya. The training that attended by delegates from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Burundi was organized by the Kenyan Social Movements for the Abolition of (...)
Tribute to Wangui Mbatia

21 February 2017 - by Benoît

Wangui Mbatia was one of Kenya’s best known female activists from the late 1990s. See Kenyans MOURN Death of Wangui Mbatia, A Civil Rights Activist and Rights hero Wangui Mbatia dies, praised for ideals, heart Hi Wangui ! I won’t ask you how you are that time. I have heard you left us, (...)
UNCTAD14: A mirage of distorting mirrors

12 September 2016 - by Yash Tandon

People not versed in the complexities of the diplomatic world of distorted mirror images in Geneva or Accra or Nairobi may wonder in awe at the agreements negotiated in their name by their representatives in multilateral forums like UNCTAD. But, truth be told, UNCTAD is in no position to (...)
Corporate capture of seeds in Africa

17 May 2016 - by Jana M. Grieb

Organic farmers from Machakos, Kenya, say that fertiliser and seed companies even deploy their own extension officers and agro-dealers in the villages, who aggressively advertise the use of their products. When their promises prove false, nobody compensates the farmers for their losses. The (...)
WTO favours developed countries, not the peasants and poor people

24 December 2015 - by La Via Campesina

Under capitalism production is not for consumption but for trade to make profits. Countries particularly the developing ones are being forced to open their borders and markets to cheap and low quality agricultural commodities from countries such as the US, China, EU, Brazil etc. All this is (...)
Bunge La Mwananchi - Unganisha Wakenya... Referendum

5 August 2014 - by Unganisha wakenya referendum

UNGE LA MWANANCHI - UNGANISHA WAKENYA... REFERENDUM (a) Today 100,000 civil servants are going to be retrenched, through IMF and World Bank structural adjustments programme of 1990s. (b) Uhuruto promised Unga will be Ksh 60/-. Today it costs Ksh 140/- (c) WORKERS ARE LIVING ON STARVATION (...)
Someone must speak up for Kenyans

8 May 2008 - by KENGO

Kengo is a coordination of grass roots organizations in Kenya, which the CADTM international network collaborates with. Here is their call for a campaign of solidarity with Kenyans being illegally detained. Comrades, Hundreds of poor, sick Kenyans are being illegally detained after being (...)
Kenya: well paid MPs vs. starving population…

31 August 2007 - by Renaud Vivien

As we get closer to the December 2007 general elections, the regime of the Kenyan President, Mr Kibaki, gets tougher and tougher, resorting to police forces to repress peaceful demonstrations. The latest evidence of this hardening was given on July 31 and August 2 when fifteen people were (...)
Simple Mathematics of the Kibaki regime in the GNU / NARC-K era

25 April 2007 - by KENGO

Introduction To Things You Need To Know To Pass Mathematics In The Kibaki Regime On December 27, 2002, Kenyans were sure that they had made the right calculations as far as their governance was concerned. Assumptions: Assumption 1. Minus Moi Equals A better Kenya Moi and his herdsman (...)
Report of the People’s Parliament Alternative Social Forum

12 February 2007 - by People’s Parliament

On Friday 19th January, 2007 when it became certain that the organizers of the World Social Forum were not going to rescind, in good time, the decision to impose the exorbitant Kshs. 500 registration fee requisite for Kenyans, members of the People’s Parliament held an emergency meeting to (...)
The World Social Forum 2007: A Kenyan Perspective

12 February 2007 - by People’s Parliament

Background: In its Charter of Principles of the World Social Forum is described as” an open meeting place for reflective thinking.... by groups and movements that are opposed to neoliberalism and to domination of the world by capital and any form of imperialism..” Such was the description that (...)