Ruto won an election almost two years ago on a platform of championing Kenya’s working poor, but has been caught between the competing demands of lenders such as the International Monetary Fund, which is urging the government to cut deficits to access more funding, and a hard-pressed population.

Very interesting!

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    5 months ago

    Notably everybody didn’t immediatly go home the first time there was a singular actual negative consequence.