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            <title><![CDATA[Kenya Risks Return to Deadly Protests With $1 Billion Tax Plan]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 12:16:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kenya Eyes Up to $600 Million in World Bank Emergency Funds]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:34:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kenya GDP Grows at Slowest Pace Since 2020 as Drought Weighs]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:00:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iran War Fuels Piracy Surge Off Somalia Coast, EU Agency Says]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:34:14 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Standard Chartered Said to Arrange $2.2 Billion Tanzania Rail Loan]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:29:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Turkish Firm in Talks With Kenya to Electrify China-Run Railway]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:28:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kenya’s $39 Billion Bet to Boost Growth and Court Voters]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[President Ruto aims to lift growth as he eyes another term.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:00:07 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kenya’s $39 Billion Push for Roads, Dams and Finishing the ‘Train to Nowhere’]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The president says new infrastructure can jump-start the economy, but voters are wary of higher taxes and mounting debt.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:01:19 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kenya Trims Tax Revenue Goal, Ramps Up Borrowing]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:05:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[BP Faces Lawsuit Over 500 Deaths in Kenyan Exploration Area]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:04:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kenya Hikes Gasoline Pump Prices Sharply on Iran War]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:55:45 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[IMF Urges Kenya to Treat Securitized Cash as Debt Ahead of Talks]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:03:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dangote Plans Pan-African IPO for Continent’s Biggest Refinery]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:42:38 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kenya Has Spent Nearly $1 Billion in Reserves to Weather Iran War Shock]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:07:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Spurned in Colonial West, France Shifts to East Africa]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Kenyan lawmakers are in the process of signing off on a defense pact with France.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:00:50 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kenya Holds Interest Rates Amid Uncertainty Over Iran War]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:30:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kenya Reaches French Defense Deal as West Africa Ends Army Ties]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:41:44 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kenya Threatens to Prosecute Citizens Enlisted in Russian War]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:10:29 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Diageo Unit Investor Wants Asahi Kenya Offer Made to All Owners]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:57:43 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kenya Plans to Stabilize Fuel Price as Outages Hit Some Stations]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:23:12 GMT</pubDate>
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