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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.

ELECTION 2022

Kenya’s newest political alliance hits a rough patch

Once touted as the country's ‘third political force’, the One Kenya Alliance (OKA) is currently going through a rough patch amid deep-seated ... mistrust among its members. Will the centre hold, or is this just another overrated coalition destined to end in the political dustbin?

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ELECTION INTEGRITY

Kenya: Top judge’s role in election preparation sets off alarm bells

The integrity of next year's general election in Kenya is in question after politicians and the nation's chief justice agreed to play a key role ... in setting it up.

Nairobi's Governor Mike Sonko sits in a court room during a hearing after he was arrested on corruption-related charges, at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi

Questions on Integrity

Kenya’s ‘Sonko leaks’: An act of vengeance or attempt to clean-up the judiciary?

Former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has put the judiciary in the spotlight by posting a series of video and audio clips to prove long held allegations ... of grand corruption in the corridors of justice. Are the leaks meant to clean up the judiciary as he alleges, or are they a ploy by a man on a vengeance mission?

Kenya top stories

Cloudy forecast

East Africa: Turbulence for Kenya Airways with regional rivalries and SAA tie-up?

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?

Cloudy forecast

East Africa: Turbulence for Kenya Airways with regional rivalries and SAA tie-up?

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?

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Equity Bank's Chief Executive Officer James Mwangi is seen during a Reuters interview in Nairobi

wind down

Kenya: Should over-liquid banks return capital to shareholders?

In the middle of the pandemic, Kenyan banks doubled their net earnings year-on-year to KSh50bn ($458m) during the second quarter of 2021. However, ... upon review, these ‘strong’ earnings were primarily driven by reduction in loan impairment charges, as bad ones were down by half year-on-year during the quarter.

Article 11/11 of "Banking Africa"

Man holds up his latest M-Pesa mobile money transaction for the photographer at an open air market in Kibera in Kenya's capital Nairobi

Distress of Debt

Kenya: The cycle of mobile app loans is costing the youth its health and finances

With a debt already close to 70% of its GDP, the IMF projects that Kenya plans to borrow $12.4bn from foreign sources by June 2022. This, at ... a time when the country is at a high risk of debt distress and subject to zero limits on non-concessional borrowing. But the distress is also having a cause and effect on its population.

innovative solutions

Kenya: From tender documents in containers to a digital procurement market

Scale, a Kenyan digital startup, is aiming to disrupt all aspects of procurement in Kenya and across the African continent by offering innovative ... solutions to suppliers, public procurement entities, private companies and even banks.

Article 3/3 of "Pushing for public procurement in Africa"

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Political games

Kenyans question cabinet secretaries’ political neutrality

As the countdown to next year’s general election begins, Kenyan government officials who had been seen as politically neutral have been throwing ... caution to the wind. Recent controversial statements and endorsements have left many would-be voters questioning the state's commitment to a free and fair poll.

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Political Eruptions

Kenya: After an attack on Ruto’s motorcade, are 2022 polls shaping up to be violent?

On 10 November, the campaign motorcade belonging to Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto was attacked in Kisumu, a western county on the shores ... of Lake Victoria. It was a bad day for Ruto who had just had a smooth run across the country for weeks, in his quest to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta. However, the blame game that followed amongst the political class and security organs could threaten peace for a country that has known its fair share of deadly election aftermaths.

Nicholas Mwendwa, President of the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi

FIFA VS Kenya

Between FIFA, FKF and Kenya’s sports minister, who will blink first?

The governing body of the International Federation of Association Football, FIFA, may have no choice but to suspend Kenya’s top football organ ... Football Kenya Federation (FKF) after its president, Nicholas Mwendwa, was recently kicked out of office by the sports cabinet secretary. But what wrong did Mwendwa commit? And what are the chances of regaining his seat?

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