{"id":13227,"date":"2025-10-10T07:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/imf-visit-to-kenya-discussed-reforms-that-could-lead-to-new-programme\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:16","slug":"imf-visit-to-kenya-discussed-reforms-that-could-lead-to-new-programme","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/imf-visit-to-kenya-discussed-reforms-that-could-lead-to-new-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF visit to Kenya discussed reforms that could lead to new programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary (IMF) Fund said this Friday that a staff visit to Kenya took stock of the latest macroeconomic developments and discussed reforms that could pave the way for a new programme.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The IMF said in a statement that policy priorities included &#8220;measures to enhance fiscal policy credibility, ensure sustainability of public finances and debt, and minimise fiscal, financial, and external sector risks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Discussions with Kenyan authorities would continue during the upcoming IMF Annual Meetings, it added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The East African nation&#8217;s $3.6 billion programme with the IMF expired earlier this year, and some officials have expressed interest in getting a new one that will include a lending component.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some financial analysts have said that Kenya needs a new loan deal from the Washington-based Fund to anchor its external debt repayments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13228,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-13227","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The International Monetary (IMF) Fund said this Friday that a staff visit to Kenya took stock of the latest macroeconomic developments.||The International Monetary (IMF) Fund said this Friday that a staff visit to Kenya took stock of the latest macroeconomic developments.","published_date":"2025-10-10 09:03:36||2025-10-10 09:03:36","news_description":"The International Monetary (IMF) Fund said this Friday that a staff visit to Kenya took stock of the latest macroeconomic developments||The International Monetary (IMF) Fund said this Friday that a staff visit to Kenya took stock of the latest macroeconomic developments","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18447,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13227\/revisions\/18447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}