Kenyan President William Ruto on Monday signed the National Infrastructure Fund into law to drive economic growth, describing the establishment of the fund as the most consequential initiative in the country's development history.

Kenya will allocate 15–20 billion shillings ($155 million) from the proceeds of the Kenya Pipeline Company initial public offering (IPO) to expand Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi, President William Ruto said on Monday.

Thousands of mourners flooded Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Thursday, briefly disrupting a military ceremony for the late opposition leader Raila Odinga, whose body had just arrived from India.

The death toll from anti-government protests in Kenya on July 7 has climbed to 31, marking the highest single-day casualty count since the protests began earlier this year, according to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR).

A growing wave of public anger is sweeping across Kenya, as citizens express mounting frustration with President William Ruto over broken campaign promises, corruption scandals, and the violent suppression of dissent.

At least 16 people have been killed and 400 injured in Kenya as a nationwide demonstration to honour those killed during last year’s anti-government protests turned chaotic, with police clashing with protesters in different parts of the country.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev congratulated his Kenyan counterpart William Samoei Ruto on the occasion of his country’s national holiday.