US warns Kenya’s loan costs will hit education, health

A teacher teaching his pupils in a classroom at St Andrews Nutrition Centre at Nayanaekabaran in drought hit Turkana County on October 12,2022.

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The US has warned that Kenya’s rising debt burden is undermining its ability to provide quality medical care and education to its services, shining the spotlight on expensive debt procured in the last decade partly from China.

Washington said elevated debt servicing costs are taking up a larger chunk of taxes, leaving little for development projects in social services and spurring the creation of decent jobs for the rising number of skilled youthful population.

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