France topples China on loans as President Ruto looks West

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France and Germany have toppled China in budgeted loans from rich countries for the new year starting July, underlining President William Ruto’s realignment with the West in a foreign policy shift from that of his two predecessors.

The Treasury has in the budget books listed France as the largest bilateral financier for projects in the Ruto administration’s Sh3.9 trillion expenditure plan for the financial year starting in July, followed by Germany.

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