Kenya has started discussions with the United Arab Emirates to secure financing to complete a regional railway, President William Ruto said, after China cut infrastructure funding to the project.

Kenya is negotiating with the UAE to finance the completion of a regional railway after China halted funding. This railway, part of China's Belt and Road Initiative, stopped in 2019 short of Uganda's border.

Kenya said it is in talks with the UAE to expand a railway line to Uganda and South Sudan. “We are exploring a partnership agreement with the United Arab Emirates to extend the Standard Gauge Railway,

A member of Kenyan President William Ruto's cabinet on Sunday became the first to speak out over a wave of abductions of young government critics, saying his own son had been a victim.

A Kenyan cabinet minister said his son's abduction during last year's anti-government protests was carried out by the National Intelligence Service and that his son was released after President William Ruto personally intervened.

A Kenyan government minister has alleged that the country's national intelligence agency was behind the abduction of his son last year, as criticism against the rising cases of abductions continues. Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi said that it took a call by President William Ruto to have his son released by the National Intelligence Service (NIS).