The ubiquitous demands for financial compensation, rationalisation of land ownership, and community involvement in project planning, are all part of a wider strategy to ensure that...
The claim by Amu Power that the proposed Lamu Coal Plant will generate cheap electricity and provide employment does not hold up to scrutiny.
The Kenyan government’s misguided and costly investments in big infrastructure projects are compromising the nation’s socio-economic transformation. Meanwhile, elite-driven opportunism has suffocated intellectual debate that once...
Dramatic geopolitical shifts taking place in the Horn of Africa suggest that Kenya might be staring at a white elephant project in Lamu. The much-hyped LAPSSET...
A Cold War military procurement program, preferred private contractors, and escalating drone strikes in Somalia.
The campaign to stop the construction of a coal-fired plant in Lamu encountered many hurdles. PRIYANKA DESOUZA and ALEXANDER IKAWAH document the various challenges facing the...
Negotiated in secret, the deals made along East Africa’s proposed second infrastructure corridor were designed for the tenderpreneurs and their friends in Sirkal. In Lamu, an...
