Kenyan President Rules Out Further Fuel-Tax Cuts After Protests

Kenyan President William Ruto ruled out further cuts to fuel taxes, even after deadly protests over the high cost of diesel brought the nation’s capital to a standstill this week.

The East African nation spent 28.2 billion shillings ($217 million) since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran to keep fuel prices artificially low through subsidies and tax breaks, Ruto told reporters in the port city of Mombasa on Friday. While the authorities will lower diesel prices by 10 shillings per liter next month, there’ll be no more reductions in levies, he said.

William Ruto

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“There are those asking government ...