But for the bureaucracy bedevilling Kenya’s shipping sector, Indian Ocean Island nations could look to Lamu for transhipment while Mombasa has the capacity to attract major shipping lines in order to tap into this emerging business.
The Kenyan government has proposed a compulsory housing levy from workers salaries to support contractors to build affordable homes for the working class. As incomes are squeezed and living standards collapse, Ambreena Manji and Jill Cottrell Ghai argue that the case for asking workers to bear the cost of housing development has not been made.
It is evident that only an investment of this type – in capital, in human resources and in qualified training – can allow the United States to leave a real mark of progress in Africa, following a counterpoint strategy to that of China.
The GMO ban in Kenya was a pre-requisite for the agricultural component of the US-Kenya Strategic Trade and Investment Partnership to be realized but it does not augur well for the people of Kenya.
The weakness of central state institutions has enabled the paramilitary Janjaweed to carve out its own power base. An attempt to muscle in on this power by the army has led to the current crisis and leaves hopes of a transition to civilian rule in tatters.
Freedom of religion is one of the most fundamental in the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, brooking a twin understanding; persons are free to practice their religions (Article 32), the so-called free exercise clause and government should not establish any religion (Article 8), the non-establishment clause.
In recent days, the Kenyan media appears to have rediscovered journalism with more critical investigative stories and fact checks.
When an accused individual comes before a judicial authority, what is at stake is the most basic of all rights—that of personal liberty. In applying the doctrine of proportionality, Hon. M.A. Opondo has demonstrated how courts can truly protect the rights of individuals.
The results of the 2022 general election fractured the feudal order; the feudal pact has been broken, leaving the middle class adrift.
Kenya’s cost of living demonstrations have as much to do with popular discontent as they do with the opposition capitalizing on frustrations.
Multistakeholder collectives face challenges in sustaining collaboration beyond the initial issues that first united them.
South African con-artists Thabo Bester and Nandipha Magudumana are not good people. They’re also an outcome of a system that predisposes individuals to avarice, selfishness and deceit.