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The US has struck Venezuela and captured its President Nicolas Maduro, who has been taken out of the country, President Donald Trump said on Saturday.

The US has not made such a direct intervention in Latin American since the invasion of Panama in 1989 to depose military leader Manuel Noriega.

“The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the country,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.

2025 was a memorable year for tourism in Kenya. Industry players say visitor numbers improved, air access expanded and visa reforms opened new markets. However, the sector was also rattled by abrupt policy shifts, climate stress and capacity gaps that exposed how sensitive tourism is to timing and long-term planning.

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As global investors turned to the safety of gold assets in a year of geopolitical turbulence, the precious metal’s price rally rewarded holders of the Absa NewGold exchange-traded fund (ETF) at the Nairobi bourse with a 70.4 percent gain in the value of their units.

Tomatoes and sukuma wiki recorded the sharpest price increases in the year to December 2025, while electricity and fresh packaged milk posted the steepest declines, as annual inflation closed the year at 4.5 percent.

Data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) show tomato prices rose 30.3 percent year-on-year, followed by sukuma wiki at 23.4 percent and mangoes at 23.1 percent, making them the biggest contributors to food inflation.

Other food items that posted notable increases included maize flour (13.2 percent), loose maize grain (12.6 percent), sugar (12.5 percent) and Irish potatoes (8.3 percent).

Kenya’s economy is set to expand faster in 2026 as inflation remains unchanged, reflecting a recovery that global lenders indicate will test the balance between growth and cost-of-living measure.

The latest World Bank’s Kenya Economic Update shows that market perceptions expect inflation to hold at 5.0 percent in 2026, unchanged from forecasts for 2025 and 2027, and higher than the 4.5 percent recorded in 2024.

At the same time, the multilateral lender projects real gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 4.9 percent in 2026, up from 4.7 percent in 2024, indicating a gradual strengthening of economic activity.

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Development economist Charles Abugre leads a team of peers whose goal is to drive unconventional approaches on economic policy and development in Africa.

Chief executives of top Kenyan companies expect to hire more workers in 2026 after months of steadily improving business conditions, which followed one of the weakest periods for formal job creation since the Covid-19 pandemic.