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Kenya

Political punch-up

Kenya 2022: Fistfights over the political parties amendment bill

A fistfight in parliament just before New Year’s Day revealed the high tensions in the succession battle to replace President Uhuru Kenyatta. ... Will the deep-seated rivalry between Raila Odinga and Deputy President William Ruto plunge the country into another bout of election violence?

top cities

Africa: Which cities in the continent are most sought after by expats?

Low costs of living, options for leisure and vibrant social life in Nairobi, Cape Town, Cairo and Johannesburg create the most ideal conditions ... for expatriates both from within and outside the continent.

Men hold flags during the launch of a new flight to the Eastern DRC city of Goma, at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), in Nairobi

Key Focus

Why Kenya sees DRC’s entry as a game-changer to intra-regional trade in East Africa

Kenya is intensifying its investment interests in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The country’s private sector recently sent a trade mission ... to the DRC.

Political Mud-Slinging

Kenya: Kenyatta continues to hurl mud at Ruto, and boost Raila

President Uhuru Kenyatta has in the recent past upped the ante in the succession battle, portraying his estranged deputy as corrupt, overambitious ... and an outright opportunist. The million-dollar question is: Will the mud hurled at William Ruto stick?

Kenya top stories

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, the presidential candidate of the National Super Alliance coalition, and his running mate Kalonzo Musyoka attend their campaign rally at the Kamukunji grounds in Nairobi

Decision time

Kenya’s 2022 election: Kalonzo Musyoka limps to the ballot box

Opposition supporters protest on a main road in Bamburi area of the coastal city of Mombasa, 2007

storm brewing

Is Kenya set to replay the post-electoral ethnic violence of 2007?

Kenyan presidential candidate William Ruto kicks off his campaign, in Nairobi

poll positions

Kenya: What’s next for William Ruto as he hits polling plateau?

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, the presidential candidate of the National Super Alliance coalition, and his running mate Kalonzo Musyoka attend their campaign rally at the Kamukunji grounds in Nairobi

Decision time

Kenya’s 2022 election: Kalonzo Musyoka limps to the ballot box

Opposition supporters protest on a main road in Bamburi area of the coastal city of Mombasa, 2007

storm brewing

Is Kenya set to replay the post-electoral ethnic violence of 2007?

Kenyan presidential candidate William Ruto kicks off his campaign, in Nairobi

poll positions

Kenya: What’s next for William Ruto as he hits polling plateau?

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Tim Steele

Active Agent

Kenya’s Copia plans e-commerce expansion in Rwanda, Tanzania

Kenyan B2C e-commerce company Copia plans to expand to Rwanda and Tanzania as part of its Africa-wide growth strategy, CEO Tim Steele tells The ... Africa Report.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni talks to Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta as they attend the signing a cease fire and power sharing agreement between South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar in Khartoum

Tit for Tat

Is Uganda’s trade market reprisal on Kenya justified?

Two years after Kenya banned Ugandan milk from entering its market, Uganda is saying enough is enough and that it will reciprocate. With the ... loss of the Rwandan market, which was closed in 2019, trade statistics reveal Uganda could be right to get tough on its partners.

Kenyan opposition leader Odinga to unveil 2022 presidential race candidature in Nairobi

Same Cast, new Script

Kenya: The great Raila Odinga steeplechase

Longtime Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has announced his fifth attempt at the presidency in the forthcoming general election slated for ... August 2022. He has been at the core of Kenyan politics for more than a quarter of a century, but has consistently failed to clinch power in three attempts that successively appeared to be the best shot. What does Raila bring to the table this time round and what hurdles must he jump to finally clinch Kenya’s top seat?

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Tables Turned

Kenya: For criminal investigator Kinoti, the hunter becomes the hunted

The decision by a high court judge to sentence Kenya’s top crime buster George Maingi Kinoti to jail for contempt was viewed by some quarters ... as a bold statement against impunity. However, to others, the ruling was dead on arrival and had zero chance of being carried out, so they were unsurprised when the court of appeal gave Kinoti a reprieve.

A South African Airways (SAA) plane is towed at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg

Open Skies

Africa needs liberalised air market more than Kenya Airways-SAA partnership

Serial lossmakers South African Airways and Kenya Airways signed a strategic partnership framework in November as a step towards starting on ... a pan-African airline group by 2023.

Chadian soldiers march during Flintlock 2014 in Diffa

CLIMATE AND SECURITY

Russia vetoes Africa-led Security Council resolution tying climate change to terrorism

Russia on Monday vetoed an African-led effort at the United Nations to link climate change with terrorism and other security challenges in the ... Sahel and beyond.

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