kenya: Kenya holds talks on resuming aid

Senior officials from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are due to hold talks with the Kenyan government on Tuesday about resuming aid to the country. A spokesman for the Kenyan ministry of finance, Mohammed Lugh, said the IMF would meet President Mwai Kibaki to discuss an anti-corruption bill. Both the IMF and the World Bank have told Kenya it must pass laws to tackle economic crimes before lending can be resumed.