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King Charles in Kenya: visit signals strong ties with Britain despite past tensions

King Charles visits Kenya this week, his first visit to a Commonwealth country since his coronation in September 2022
Charles, Prince of Wales, in 2012
OpinionPolitics & Policy

Kenya’s election should ring alarm bells on digital influence campaigns

Online influencers played a significant role in shaping the outcome of Kenya’s 2022 election, partly by amplifying misleading narratives. African countries preparing for elections should be on guard
Social media networks in one group on an iPhone
Politics & Policy

Mwai Kibaki wasted opportunity to fix Kenya

Kenya's third president initially enjoyed broad goodwill among his own population until he failed to confront the gross excesses he had promised he would reform
Mwai Kibaki at a conference in London, in 2012
Politics & Policy

Daniel arap Moi: the making of Kenya’s ‘big man’

Moi is widely held responsible for a regime that bore witness to, and benefited from, violence, corruption and discrimination. Kenya’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission found that his government was responsible for numerous gross human rights violations
Politics & Policy

Drug trafficking: US to pursue prominent Kenyan suspects linked to Akasha brothers

US-Kenya efforts to arrest prominent figures linked to the Akasha organisation could curb heroin trade in East Africa
US Navy mencarry bags containing Hashish captured from a dhow in the Arabian Sea, March 17, 2017
EconomyOpinionPolitics & Policy

Kenya’s Perfect Storm

Annual rains have hit Kenya especially hard this year, causing havoc in the capital. But there is a silver lining amid the gloom: weather-related infrastructure challenges have pushed bureaucrats to tackle old issues like corruption and mismanagement with a renewed sense of urgency
Opinion

Nairobi’s plan to introduce car-free days is a good idea – here’s why

Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, is the second most congested city in the world. To reduce congestion, Nairobi County has proposed car-free Wednesdays and Saturdays in two of the busiest parts of the city
A street in Nairobi.
Opinion

Why Cuban doctors in Kenya don’t deserve the treatment they’re getting

Fifty Cuban doctors recently arrived in Kenya, hired by the government to work in in under-served rural areas. They may not be the ideal solution, but the reasons forwarded against them are not justified
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta formally sends off 50 Cuban specialist doctors hired by the Kenyan government to work in under-served rural areas.
Politics & Policy

Why elections don’t always equal democracy: the case of Kenya

The turn of events in favour of President Kenyatta is not surprising. It suggests that the process of free elections was never intended to help the country democratise. This mirrors events in other seemingly transitioning countries such as Zimbabwe or Senegal
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