The Government was expected to announce this week the retrenchment of 20,000 civil servants, the East African Standard has learnt. Donor sources said the Government will reveal the number of civil servants to be laid off, a process expected to be carried out in three phases. It is understood that the Government has been in talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on its promises on civil service reform, which it made to donors and which it has made little progress in fulfilling.