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The Kenyan Uprising

17 October 2024 - by Zachary J. Patterson

More than two months after its government’s controversial Finance Bill 2024 sparked widespread unrest, the flame of resistance remains bright across Kenya. The youth-led struggle—largely forged on social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter), (…)
Solidarity with Kenyan people!

24 July 2024 - by CADTM International, Collective

The CADTM and Kenyan Allies Declaration We, the CADTM and Kenyan allies: Alarmed by the capture of the Kenyan government by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that has worsened the Kenyan debt crisis. Affirm our solidarity with the Kenyan (…)
New International Debt Crisis

2 April 2024 - by Eric Toussaint, Abdul Khaliq, Solange Koné, David Calleb Otieno, Amali Wedagedara, Aamanur Rahman

On February 16, 2024, at the World Social Forum in Kathmandu, Nepal, CADTM organised a discussion on the New International Debt Crisis, which discussed the new debt crisis engulfing a series of countries in the South. A number of speakers drew (…)
In Nepal, CADTM delegates took part in the opening march of the World Social Forum and successfully completed their initial workshops

21 February 2024 - by CADTM International, Maxime Perriot

The World Social Forum, which took place this year in Kathmandu (Nepal), began on Thursday 15 February 2024. The CADTM International network was represented by delegates from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire and the (…)
How the BRICS+, Africa Climate Summit, G20 and UN Prepare Us for Planetary Arson

Summary In the months prior to the 2023 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference (hosted in Dubai), summits held by global, ‘multipolar’ and continental-African elites are worthy of consideration in part because their (…)
Left in the lurch

Debt and Covid-19 in Ecuador, Kenya, Pakistan, the Philippines and Zambia

3 May 2021 - by Eurodad

This series of articles has been produced by Eurodad in collaboration with our global partners on the implementation of the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI), complementing and updating the report “Shadow report on the limitations of the (…)
Why are Kenyans trolling the IMF?

21 April 2021 - by Ciku Kimeria

Kenya’s economy is struggling, but many believe another loan will only benefit corrupt officials and leave ordinary citizens to pay off the debt. For lack of a better word, Kenyans are currently trolling the International Monetary Fund (IMF). (…)
Kenyan activists raise questions about debt...

29 January 2021 - by Kenya Debt Abolition Network

Report of Kenyan Debt Zoom Dialogue Held on 13 January 2021 at 2PM to 4PM 1.0 - INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND On 13 January 2021 the Kenya Debt Abolition Network (KDAN) which is a social movement of Kenyan individual and organization (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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, (…)
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 (…)
No to WTO and Free Trade Agreements

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 (…)
Kenya

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 (…)
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 (…)