Treasury expands borrowing options amid rising debt pain

The National Treasury building in Nairobi on April 16, 2025.

Photo credit: Dennis Onsongo | Nation Media Group

As Kenya’s debt service costs and budget deficit grow, the Treasury has been forced to become more creative in the choice of instruments it deploys to raise new debt and keep existing creditors happy.

In prior years, the government relied on a narrow staple of Treasury bills and bonds, concessional loans from multilateral and bilateral lenders, Eurobonds, and syndicated loans to raise new debt.

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