Kenya: Campaigners Warn of Kenya's 'Secretive' Plan to Set Up International Financial Centre

1 December 2015
analysis

Kenya's government hopes a new Nairobi International Financial Centre will transform the economy, but observers warn it could contribute to illicit financial flows, inequality and a lack of transparency.

For East Africa's largest economy, these are turbulent times. Beleaguered Treasury Secretary Henry Rotich was summoned before parliament in October to explain reports his department was facing cash shortages.

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