Rich countries/people owes poor people/coutries a duty of care.
USAID is 40B a year - 0.1% of US budget - they should ideal spend 2% on such.
Bill Gates donates 10B dollar a year.
USAID give US soft power.
It makes it warring/policing role have human face.
Without it US become a bully that will rebel other countries.
Why would countries and its citizen support US agendas if it not helping them.
China will easily replace US and fill that void

If it about reforming USAID or even UN - excellent - more money will eventually flow into real beneficiary
If they deal with redtape and corruption in USAID.

I hope that is the PLAN - send more of that 40B - into programs with proven impact

Obiano13:


Tell me why Trump would or even should care about any third world country?? He shouldn't even care about other developed countries. He was elected to serve American interests not some black mofos who cant run their affairs. He just stopped the funding of the Kenyan mission to Haiti. The money that comes to Nigeria through USAID is used to control Nigeria so that you can never become free. You'd be surprised how much of the so-called USAID money ends up in the hands of Boko Haram and the Niger Delta terrorists and finances banditry and their preferred candidates in elections including your current president who I said few days back is a former drug Lord turned CIA mole. What USAID does so well is not the violence it ferments but the psychological tinkering of your brain. Trump is indirectly telling African presidents, you collect enough to depend on yourself. USAID was just promoting corruption and thievery. I dont expect you to connect the dots but eventually you'll come to it. Many countries stopped funding their own HIV programs and left it to USAID. Why would any sane country do that? The leaders of these countries have been looting such healthcare money. But then again useful idiots are too hungry for food to see the big picture. Take a good look at the image below and tell me whether the endless aid to these countries has helped them or has there been more and more chaos.

Yes - we will go to IMF standby facility - having exited the IMF bailout.

StivoH2022:


April IMF will exit

Ethiopia 230? Ethiopia GDP is like Nigeria before - lots of cooking of the exchange rate. Once Birr is truly freely floating and forex controls removed it will settle where it should

AfriqueDuZuid:
On another note

What happened to Nigeria

Most of your ships are carrying useless polluting coal.

AfriqueDuZuid:


And again what those ships carry is what's more important, a port can be busy transporting tea leaves, coffee, fruits and vegs

While the other is transporting machinery, vehicles, equipment,........

Evidence? Or the usual diarhoea?

AfriqueDuZuid:


Lol Durban port at its worst was doing 3.6 TEU, since then its been going up

Plus its going expansion to have caoacity of 11TEU by 2030

Kenya leads in Tech Startups funding again in 2024.

Kenya led with 648M dollars, Nigeria came second, raising Sh52.9 billion ($410 million), followed by Egypt with Sh51.6 billion ($400 million) and South Africa at Sh51 billion ($394 million).

In West Africa, Ghana and Benin trailed Nigeria with Sh8.8 billion ($68 million) and Sh6.5 billion ($50 million), respectively.


Kenya has 10 times Ghana and nearly twice South Africa


https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/2025/01/kenya-startups-claim-top-spot-in-africa-with-sh82-3bn-raised-in-2024/#:~:text=NAIROBI%2C%20Kenya%2C%20Jan%208%20%E2%80%93,in%20Africa's%20startup%20funding%20rankings.

Mombasa port hit 2M TEUS. Durban is normally at 2.5-2.7M.
It grew by 25%
So if we keep the momentum
Mombasa port will exceed Durban in two years.

Excellent. Land reforms should be done slowly without any noise.

AfriqueDuZuid12:


MALEMA will be im single digit.... He's losing it

His wife is also rumorored to be leaving him

As always English is their main handicap.

gallivant:


Tanzania! What's going on?

Yes definitely things are looking up - renewable energy investment exciting - hopefully Zimbwabwe can fix their mess and get their millions back to their country - and Mozambique handle their shiet.RSA has shouldered lot of burden - from ZIm.

And of course Malema rhetorics were no good for investors.

AfriqueDuZuid12:


Education if good the system is good

Maths and science outcome is what needs to improve and it is, tertiary education is super.

It's not DA n ANC.... Most things were fixed befor elections

Excellent. The coalition btw ANC and DA is big move towards the right direction. Now all you need is to stay away from Trump and USA's Jews.

Definitely things looking up down there.

Long term - fix education - to escape the middle class trap/rut.

AfriqueDuZuid12:


2024 yes brighter, loadshedding gone, eskom coming well, economy growing, SAA making profits, SA rail rejuivinated, trade doing better

2025 we going bigger here in SA

Nigeria GDP distant 4th at 190B - as South Africa retakes the mantle at 400B(stuck there for 20yrs almost) - just like I had said - its Niegeria really GDP is around 200B. Kenya has been overtaken by Ethiopia.

Not much difference with now.
This tiny section of wetlands - was all like that few years ago - but look now

Just30:
1960s Accra

You as always never quote anything - just verbal diarrhea. If we go by atrocious English and logic I see with Ghanians here - then your education system is a mess.

We saw you become last in PISA - worse than even South Africa (which known for it's bad education).

Just30:
Lunatic

unfortunately you're not known for highly skilled labour.
The only jobs your people are getting known for are maid and servants jobs.

Even Togolese labour is better than yours.
The likes of kpmg and other accounting firms prefer associates from Philippines, Ghana and Nigeria.

Major engineering firms prefer Russian, Ukrainian, China philiphinoes, Ghanaians, Nigerians,Sierra Leoneans, Ivorians, Togolese,

Mad cow,
Kenya has historically had high quality middle-income country education -> which translates to highly skilled people -> therefore wont have any problem getting good jobs abroad.

So it opportune to copy Philiphines and export them.

Just30:
philiphinoes are highly skilled people
Kenyans are not

Jobs cant be created using magic from thin air.
Kenya has 20M adults without formal jobs - annually adding 1M.
There is no magic ward Ruto will wave - which is why Ruto with BEST BRAINS sat down and figured out the quickest wins.
Exporting Kenya is one of them.
Philiphines does it - their diaspora earn 30-40B
Kenya with half it pop - can also aim for 15-20B
And when economy grows kenyans will comeback.
China use to export Chinese literally on containers.

Obiano13:


Those last two images you posted are one of the MYRIAD reasons I cant stand Ruto. His head is full of guano. We want a leader who creates jobs locally not an idiot who oversees the worst labor and capital flight in history and forms a commission to investigate why businesses are leaving the country enmasse. Labour export cannot, should not, and will not be OFFICIAL govt policy in Kenya, he can try it in his Sugoi bedroom! Either he creates jobs locally and let willing Kenyans willfully look for jobs overseas or firmly keep his mouth shut after PUBLICLY conceding that he is a once in a lifetime failure.

Aint reading all this shiet!
Ruto has stabilize his gov - has now 90% of parliament and senate - only Wiper 15mps and RIggy 5 oppose him
Feb - Raila wins AU and Ruto inherits ODM
Next Ruto appoint all 7 IEBC commission.
Next 2027 - Ruto wins o Ruto wins or Ruto wins.

Obiano13:


He's on his last legs. This is literally his final card to try and save the sinking ship. You should know better!. Why he is going to these DESPERATE lengths running to Uhuru? Because as I told you he realized Raila was planning to finish him come Feb. He's doing damage control but its too late. If Raila was planning to impeach him, Uhuru's men will completely devour him. Kyuks dont forgive like we Luos.

Ruto is a man under siege.

He is crying for help.

He needs prayers.

He might appear tough in public but is silently frustrated and in pain.

He has been cornered. The filthy swamp has marooned him.

The June 25th protests disoriented him. He lost direction. He was stripped naked before the whole world.

Yet, he had only 1 job:

To solve Kenyans problems.

But he forgot this.

He forgot the hustlers, the church, and the youths who foisted him.

Immediately after he got into office, he fell into the dangerous trap of globalists like George Soros and Bill Gates, with the help of Meg Whitman.

He struts into government corridors with so much Chutzpah and hubris.

He disenfranchised the people.

The people don't like him anymore, no matter what he does or says.

Children don't like him

Parents don't respect him.

Workers don't like him.

No citizen trusts him

Raila will not help him.

Uhuru will not help him.

Only the people will help him.

Kenya's problem is not a lack of national unity.

Kenyans are united with a singular mission.

The problem is that Ruto is naked, people are telling him but he can't listen.

The politicians he is adding to cabinet will devour him whole

They will eat him for lunch.

Don't think they are there to help him. They are there to deflate him, hold him hostage, and finally, conduct a March of Ides, just like it was done to Julius Caesar.

Do you know who killed Julius Caesar?

It was Brutus.

Do you know who Brutus was?

Brutus was Julius Caesar's closest friend. He didn't kill Caesar because he hated him but because the Roman Republic had lost trust in Julius Caesar. Same way Kenyans have lost all trust in Ruto.

Brutus and his brother-in-law Cassius Longinus plotted the elimination of Caesar.

Caesar had defeated Cassius Longinus, and Caesar's biggest mistake was to bring Cassius into his fold of friends.

Ruto has unwisely brought back Raila and Uhuru back into his fold.

On 15th March 44 BC, during the March of Ides, Julius Caesar was assassinated by the people he dined with in the republic.

Ruto has made a lot of blunders. His political enemies have discovered that he is indecisive and weak.

Bloating his executive administration with political losers is the beginning of his end.

These politicians will compete and fight, and the government will be worse, chaotic, and sour.

He has surrounded himself with Yamune dunderheads who will abandon him when his Brutus will choose a fork in the road.

He should do the right thing.

For the sake of his life and future,

- Disband the government.

- Dissolve the parliament.

It is only the voice of the people that will salvage him.

Do you know what Julius Caesar told his friend Brutus when the senators stabbed him (Caesar)?

He asked Brutus,

"Et tu, Brute?"

Do you also want to say:

"Akot inye nekitupche? Nepo moet aenge?"

I have told you. If you have ears, you have heard.

The lizard told the stone,

"Even if you pretend that you have not heard, I have told you."

Obiano and other destructive elements are being dealt with political. Ruto has now brought back Raila his main opponent and now Uhuru the former president.

This should help manage the political madness from a bunch of crazy fools like Obiano

They are sending unschooled refugees....you can excuse war torn country. Kenya has high quality education.

gallivant:


Somalia needs divine intervention. I have heard of only negativity from their diaspora!! Most African immigrants in the west are honest hard working individuals from what I have heard.

Kenya diaspora in US amongst top earners -

Money is not hidden; it manifest in living standards and quality of things; One picture can tell you a poor country

vaxx:
people overhyped nearly everything.

Kenya is not better than Nigeria and Ghana, this is a fact. You look into the money in the pulse of the individual and not what the state claim to have .

Ethiopia Adis Ababa really nailing many things. At this rate Nairobi has to be very afraid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAHMQlXl8bM

Anyway, Kenya cannot compete with Ghana or Accra. You're simply not at our level. Big Zoo Nigeria is struggling - leave alone Ghana.

vaxx:
this is another housing unit in some part of Accra .....completed.🇬🇭

Not a vision in progress


This is located in kpone , near tema in GH

Usual diarhoea that dont quote any data. Sign of mental illness.

Just30:
Lunatic


The Germans say they don't want you because they already have enough low iQ cleaners and maids from Mena.

The Asians won't take you because they prefer Filipino, Malaysian and Vietnamese.

The Arab world will have you but only as maids just like you've historically been.


The dynamics that causes significant rise in Ghana's remittance flows already are present hence we've seen significant flows this year.
7 billion is most likely.

1000 units - is not bad - but do you imagine if you sort out main sewage and really build up 1000 units is very small housing estate.
Now because you're sprawling and wasting land - it become enormous.

vaxx:
what Ghana has built three years ago ... And will still continue the project next year ...

It is about floors , it is about space outlet ....



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQlFSIf2KV8?si=jynmrEnlNX95LORr

Ghana entire Accra city is struggling to build 10 15 floors building while kenya 1M affordable housing projects are build thousands of 15 floors housing.

Eldoret City Affordable housing

Now Kenya's monthly remittance trending towards 500M USD - which means 6B dollars likely.

Already, year to September, we were at 4.7B USD—more than Ghana—so by the end of the year, we are likely at 6B dollars or very close to it.

3 more years - we should be at 10B. Nigeria stuck at 19-20B - mostly illegal.

Remittance inflows in September 2024 totalled USD 418.5 million compared to USD 340.4 million in September 2023, an increase of 22.9 percent (Chart 1). The cumulative inflows for the 12 months to September 2024 increased by 14.0 percent to USD 4,723 million compared to USD 4,142 million in a similar period in 2023.25

Mad cow as always inventing own facts;

Kenya remittance is now growing at 20% per year.

This 1st term we have taken Labour Export as official gov policy!

Ghanians are still walking across the Sahara then swimming to Italy to pick tomatoes.

We go and sign a deal with Italians or Germans - and send our people legally.

2021 - Ghana was 4.5B - 2023 - 4.6B - only 100M more.
2023 - Kenya was 3.7B - 2023 - 4.2B - 500M more.

Ceteris paribus.

2024 - Ghana 4.7m - at best.
2024 - Kenya will be 4.8M - at worst.

Just30:
Ghana's remittance will be 6 to 7 billion dollars this year.

Good luck on your endeavors, you don't overtake that using cleaners and maids.
I'll be happy if you were Togo which has good quality skill labour.

Ruto is keen to eradicate slums while creating jobs!

From Slums - to this

Those of us who have supported Ruto the longest knew he is go-getter who mean business and the middle class will cry but changes MUST be done.

1) Food security - Maize production moved from 30M bags to 47M bags in a year - this year 75M bags - no maize is needed to be imported - we are now thinking export. Sugar we have always imported - now we are thinking of export. Price has dropped from 250 to 110 and will drop more. Maize from 250 to 100.

Trick - 8M farmers electronically registered and given feritlize vouchers cheaply - nearly 1/3 of market price.
Result - overproduction.

Only remaining issue - Oil crops and Wheat - we are ramping production of sunflower and rest - the holygrail of palm trees is long term.

2) Health - Employees use to pay a silly 3-10 dollar - result health system collapse - many fundraising or harambees. Ruto come and said 2.75% of income and employees match it up. Results 50M kenyans will all have health cover. Huge investment in hospitals and related will follow.

3) Housing - Employees 1.75% and employer match it - sell house monthly for same price as most rent now - results - 1M house by 2027 and eradication of slums.

4) NSSF - Pension or 401k - from 10 dollars of a joke to now 6% employee and 6% top up - NSSF pension fund is joke with 2B worth of investment since independence - in 5yrs alone it will be almost 10 billion dollars - money to invest in roads, dams, etc and people will get pensions.

5) Tax collection was 2 trillion KES - 2yrs later 2.5 trillion - next year 3 trillion - also gov services have been increase to meet inflation - dead gov companies like power company and KQ are all making profit .
6) Universities - all were bankrupt - total bankrupt nearly a billion dollars - now students from middle class pay proper school fees - the poor get loans and scholarship.

Bottomline - Middle class are crying real tears- online they wail - but reforms must continue. More tears will continue from middle class but Ruto will be re-elected by poor who are now happy that cost of living is bottom, slums are going away, health care taken care of and soon infra starts/

Country cannot afford to be hungry slum residing unhealthy poverty ridden hopeless. Unfortunately middle class and upper class has to shoulder the responsibility until the bottom guys are also moving.

Meantime Ruto is ready to send anyone willing to go abraod - abraod - go work and live there - Kenya has no jobs for now.

Kenya Affordable housing - where employees contribute 1.75% and employer same - is on course to eradicate slums.

Formely Slum Mukuru - 13,000 units - bigger than all African housing estate bar Kalamba in Angola. Kibera has even bigger project coming up including 280 acre housing estate - more than 10% of kibra land.

And there are projects all over country to eliminate slums and provide very cheap house - some costing 5,000 dolllars to buy - many you pay 30 dollars a month in rent to won.

Almost all economic indicators are now looking very up - 2.7% inflation, interest rate single digit, economy still growing, KES stable!
Debt default avoided and economy recovered
Just credit growth - which will happen with low interest regime!
Plus fixing pending bills and Non performing loans - then we vroooooooom again
Thousands of kenya being facilated to go abroad - passport processed quickly and gov doing labour agreements.
Ruto found 300 gov service online - now 20,000 gov service online.
In next 6 months - all gov services will be online

Development
Thousands of houses are being built.
750,000 units under development, planned and tendered
1M by 2027.

SGR to Malaba and Kampala start next year.

Mombasa to Malaba expressway - 1,000 kms - Kibaki sijui 40kms thika road or Uhuru 27 kms is a BIG JOKE
Start late 2025.