Kenya signs deal that could replace USAid as uncertainty hangs over data privacy
Kenyan President William Ruto speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump and Angola’s President and African Union Chair Joao Lourenço during a signing ceremony at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, on December 4, 2025.
Kenya on Thursday signed a $2.5 billion health deal with the US, the first with President Donald Trump’s administration, which potentially replaces the funding lost after the US Agency for International Development (USAid) folded.
The five-year agreement, signed between the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Kenya’s Prime Cabinet Secretary and Foreign CS Musalia Mudavadi, comes in place of a patchwork of health agreements traditionally run by the USAid for decades until the Trump administration dismantled it earlier this year.
