Vol 61 No 16 | KENYA From a grateful nation 6th August 2020 Not content with being among the world's best-paid politicians, Kenyan lawmakers have ensured that their predecessors are also amply rewarded for their service. On 5 August, after 10...
Vol 61 No 15 | KENYAWORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION A favourite for an impossible job 23rd July 2020 After several near misses in her search for a top international job, Amina Mohamed is a WTO front-runner. But what does she stand for? Of all the candidates gunning for the helm of the World Trade Organisation, Amina Mohamed probably ranks as the best prepared for the contest. Along with the rival...
Vol 61 No 14 | KENYA A big tent for Moi's children 9th July 2020 The President's attempts to co-opt oppositionists has reunited young Turks promoted by the late President Moi Thirty years after the Saba Saba protests triggered the battle for the restoration of multiparty politics in Kenya, veterans of that struggle might be troubled to see that...
Vol 61 No 12 | KENYA Uhuru takes it out on his party 11th June 2020 An angry President Kenyatta vents his frustrations on dissident Jubilee MPs. His deputy stays within the tent for now For the first time in three years, President Uhuru Kenyatta invited all 404 Jubilee Party legislators – 337 MPs and 67 Senators – to a parliamentary group meeting...
Vol 61 No 11 | KENYA The one-party statesmen 28th May 2020 The effect of thwarting Deputy President William Ruto’s presidential ambitions could be the return of a de facto single-party state The disintegration of the ruling Jubilee Party continues apace. In the clearest indications yet that President Uhuru Kenyatta is determined to remove the succession from his deputy, William...
Vol 61 No 10 | KENYA A clumsy coup 14th May 2020 The government expected that curbing the Nairobi governor’s powers would end his career, but the flamboyant Mike Sonko won’t go quietly The image of suspended Nairobi governor Mike Sonko at State House wordlessly signing powers over to the national government in February appeared to symbolise the presidency's triumph in...
Vol 61 No 10 | KENYA False report of an assassination attempt against President Kenyatta 22nd May 2020 This is to inform you that a meme circulating on social media today purportedly of a story published by Africa Confidential with the headline 'The Plot to Assassinate... READ FOR FREE
Vol 61 No 9 | KENYA There will be blood tests 30th April 2020 After a decade of financial scandals, the Kenya Medical Research Institute, whose duties include Covid-19 testing, is back in the spotlight over the dismissal of the doctor in...
Vol 61 No 8 | KENYA Freight storm hits the port 16th April 2020 Fulfilling the terms of China’s loans for the standard gauge railway is at the expense of Mombasa’s role in the national economy If it wasn't for the drama that preceded it, the resignation of the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) managing director, Daniel Manduku, at the end of March would have...
Vol 61 No 8 | KENYA Duelling impeachments 16th April 2020 County governors have been targets in the Jubilee party's civil war between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto. A string of governors allied to Ruto have...