Kenya’s Youth Are Rising Up Against U.S.-IMF Control and Aren’t Backing Down
Rania Khalek- @gchelwa w/ @tricon discuss how Kenyans are rising up against the IMF stranglehold on the country that has trapped them in a perpetual cycle of debt
The Kenyan people successfully defeated a deeply unpopular finance bill that threatened to worsen Kenya’s already-dire poverty and inflation. After massive protests that turned violent, President William Ruto withdrew the bill that the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were imposing, which would have dealt the most intense austerity policies in Kenya’s history.
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