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Kenya's foreign liabilities
  • Growth attributed to increase in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), which increased by 11.6 per cent from $8.2 billion at the end of 2020, to $9.2 billion.
  • The stock of Other Investment (OI) liabilities increased from $4.9 billion in 2020 to $6.2 billion in 2022. Similarly, Portfolio Investment (PI) rose from $253.4 million to $266.4 million in 2022.
  • The OI liabilities accounted for 39.2 per cent of total foreign liabilities in 2022, and were mainly in the form of loans, and currency and deposits.

Kenya’s foreign liabilities

Europe and Africa account for the biggest share of Kenya’s foreign liabilities mainly Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs), an official government report shows, as the country continues to retain its East Africa’s economic power status.

This comes on the back of an increase in the stock of Kenya’s foreign liabilities, which went up by 17.9 per cent from $13.4 billion at the end …

Kenya and the UK agreed to accelerate work to remove barriers affecting bilateral trade and investment,
  • Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Investment, Trade, and Industry Moses Kuria is leading a high-powered government delegation to London for the Economic Partnership Agreement and Investment meeting.
  • Kenya is leveraging on the talks to intensify pitches to investors.
  • This is in an effort to net at least $10 billion in Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) this year.

Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Investment, Trade, and Industry Moses Kuria is this week leading a high-powered government delegation to London for the Economic Partnership Agreement and Investment meeting, that Kenya seeks to intensify pitches to investors.

The government is aiming to net at least $10 billion in Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) this year in a plan mooted by the Kenya Investment Authority.

The forum is being held through a Ministerial Council meeting on the Economic Partnership Agreement, which was scheduled to kick-off on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 in London.

“The forum will provide a platform …