Vol 61 No 6 | KENYASOMALIA Frontier fracas 19th March 2020 Conflict flares between Mogadishu and Nairobi over Jubaland. Kenya wants a buffer zone but Farmajo has other ideas Months of tensions between Mogadishu and its southern state of Jubaland came to the boil in early March and spilled across the Kenyan border in a violent face-off between the Somal...
Vol 61 No 1 | KENYA Jockeying for position 9th January 2020 Elections may be two years away but the race to form new electoral alliances already dominates national politics Kenya began 2020 with erratic and intractable factional politics as the top two candidates for the next presidential election – William Ruto and Raila Odinga – counter each other's...
Vol 60 No 24 | KENYA Building shaky bridges 5th December 2019 The BBI report failed to deliver on the hype and looks set to produce more ethnic rivalry in the run-up to the 2022 elections The much-hyped Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report, commissioned by President Uhuru Kenyatta and his erstwhile rival, opposition leader Raila Odinga in March 2018, was launche...
Vol 60 No 23 | KENYA Assault on Mount Kenya 21st November 2019 President Uhuru Kenyatta is trying to put an end to a simmering rebellion against his government in a region where discontent with him would be least expected – the Mount Ken...
Vol 60 No 22 | KENYA Ruto-Raila (round one) 7th November 2019 The by-election campaigns for Kibra (previously Kibera), Kenya's largest slum, near downtown Nairobi, turned into a full-dress rehearsal of the political contest between Deputy Pre...
Vol 60 No 20 | KENYA Fund on standby 11th October 2019 New Principal Secretary to the Treasury Julius Muia is hoping that his talks with the International Monetary Fund at its annual meeting on 14-20 October in Washington will result i...
Vol 60 No 19 | KENYA Bridge of sighs 27th September 2019 A bid to build alliances across the country’s ethnic divides owes more to political ambition than to altruism Due for release in early October, the wide-ranging report of the Building Bridges Initiative looks likely to deepen political conflict despite its lofty aims of lessening ethnic an... READ FOR FREE
Vol 60 No 18 | KENYA Spending on the hoof 13th September 2019 President Kenyatta wants to buy his way to a legacy. Sceptics say the economic outlook does not support this largesse On an impromptu stop at a function at Mwangoni Primary School in Kwale County on the south coast on 8 September, President Uhuru Kenyatta made an instant personal donation of 1 mil...
Vol 60 No 18 | KENYASOMALIA Jubaland row heats up oil tiff 13th September 2019 Tensions between Kenya and Somalia are rising fast over a dispute about politics and money in a Somali province Separate but inter-related arguments over elections in Jubaland and offshore oil blocks claimed by both Kenya and Somalia appear to be coming to a head in the wake of the May appoi...
Vol 60 No 15 | KENYA A killing joke 26th July 2019 A fake letter detailing an assassination plot against the Deputy President has widened the fault lines within the ruling elite The political drama sparked by a fake letter claiming that several cabinet ministers from President Uhuru Kenyatta's Mount Kenya homeland had been plotting to kill Deputy President...