Debt, dust and deprivation: the pain ahead for Kenya’s next government

Votes are cast, the counting underway, but there is already one certainty about the new government of Kenya: it will be operating in the worst economic environment, and with the most overstretched finances, of any government since independence.

For the post-Covid 19 world, with its Russian-initiated war wreaking extra havoc, and a Chinese-initiated war beginning to look barely a stride behind it, is a world straining in the face of financial and commodity shortages and rapidly spiralling prices. And there is no escape set from the impact of that alignment.