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Auditor general: Kenya to lose millions in Covid-19 response
Kenya’s auditor general says the country stands to lose $21 million in the procurement of COVID-19 medical supplies because the Kenya...
Oct 1, 2020
Kenya: China faces a critical test in train debt
Kenya’s difficulties in servicing its debts for the newly-built, Chinese-financed Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is nearing a breaking...
Sep 30, 2020
Kenyan government fights payout for slum’s lead poisoning
Residents of a Mombasa slum won a landmark payout in July over pollution by a lead smelter that poisoned locals. Kenya's government was...
Sep 29, 2020
Coronavirus corruption in Kenya: Officials and businesspeople targeted
Kenyan investigators are to recommend the prosecution of at least 15 top government officials and businesspeople over the alleged misuse...
Sep 25, 2020
Tax: Distressed Kenyan forms find safe haven in Mauritius
Troubled Tuskys Supermarket is now among a growing list of Kenyan firms with links to one of the world’s most notorious tax havens. This...
Sep 22, 2020
Revealed: The CIA and MI6’s secret war in Kenya
A covert Kenyan paramilitary team armed and trained by the US and supported by UK intelligence is behind renditions and controversial...
Sep 21, 2020
Military demand for land puts northern Kenya’s farmers on edge
Lechodede Lbang’a has managed to keep farming for more than 40 years, even through northern Kenya’s worsening drought, but now he worries...
Sep 17, 2020
Arrest of Amnesty International Kenya’s Chairperson, Renee Ngamau, is an attack on human rights defe
Following last night’s arrest of Amnesty International Kenya’s Chairperson and advocate, Renee Ngamau, and today’s no show by the police...
Sep 16, 2020
Nairobi politician caught up in Sh300m military contract scam
A politician in Nairobi is caught up in a suspected fake military tender scheme in which a former senior United Nations official is...
Sep 14, 2020
Kenya’s $580m medical equipment leasing deal ‘criminal’ – Senate panel
The Kenyan government’s deal to lease various medical equipment in a 63 billion shillings ($580 million) deal was a “criminal enterprise”...
Sep 10, 2020
Kenya’s 2022 elections have already begun
The president doesn’t have a clear chosen successor, and the unsolved killing of an election official shows that the country could be...
Sep 3, 2020
Oil industry lobbies US to help weaken Kenya’s strong stance on plastic waste
Environmentalists fear changing Kenya’s resolve would lead to all of Africa becoming a plastics dumping ground Major oil companies are...
Sep 2, 2020
Malawi rights group queries Kenya firm Zamara pension deal
Zamara Group, a Kenyan financial consulting and pension management firm, is entangled in an ongoing push for investigations into alleged...
Sep 1, 2020
Hopes for a better Kenya were dashed from the onset
As the 2010 Constitution turns 10, Kenyans should reflect and refocus on four key issues: implementation, reversals, reform and...
Aug 28, 2020
Without trust, politics is reduced to spectacle
People must believe in public institutions in order to believe in the promises of democracy. Take a Kenyan’s word on this. Shortly after...
Aug 27, 2020
China-backed railway agreement puts Kenya’s sovereignty at risk
Kenya, the largest economy of East Africa, is on the verge of falling into a debt trap and losing a part of its sovereignty to China...
Aug 25, 2020
Kenya journalist freed from detention in Ethiopia
Kenyan journalist Yassin Juma has been released from detention in Ethiopia - about a week after his lawyer said he had contracted...
Aug 21, 2020
Kenya woman’s ordeal highlights newly identified sex trafficking route
J’s cousin promised her a well paid job in India as a housekeeper. Instead, she found herself in a brothel until the United Nations...
Aug 20, 2020
Why do people participate in electoral violence? Insights from Kenya’s 2007 elections
Conversations in Kenya have started around the upcoming 2022 presidential elections. Elections in Kenya tend to be highly contentious and...
Aug 19, 2020
Kenya dismisses exposé on looting of Covid-19 funds
Kenya’s health ministry has dismissed an exposé that alleged massive looting and disappearance of millions of dollars of donor funds and...
Aug 18, 2020
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