Kenya’s most powerful business lobby has rejected a government bill that would create a new statutory council to coordinate private sector advocacy, calling the proposal unnecessary and poorly consulted. The Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI) says the Public-Private Engagement Bill, 2025, should be scrapped. Instead, the government should simply grant statutory status…
President William Ruto on Wednesday ordered a government committee to finally settle a 12-year dispute over the division of responsibilities between Kenya’s national government and its 47 counties, aiming to end overlapping roles that have long fueled tensions. Speaking at a summit of national and county leaders at State House in Nairobi, Ruto directed the…
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels captured the strategic eastern Congolese city of Uvira on Wednesday, forcing Congolese troops to flee and displacing about 200,000 civilians, the United Nations said. The rapid advance came less than a week after a U.S.-mediated peace agreement between Congo and Rwanda has thrown the accord into jeopardy. Heavy gunfire rang out in…
One hundred Kenyan police officers stepped off a plane in Nairobi on Tuesday to cheers and embraces, ending an 18-month tour that helped claw back parts of Haiti’s capital from powerful criminal gangs. Hours earlier in Port-au-Prince, 230 fresh Kenyan officers had touched down to replace them, ensuring Kenya remains the backbone of an international…
Kenya is grappling with a severe national ethics crisis marked by plummeting public trust in state institutions, the country’s top judicial official warned Monday. Chief Registrar of the Judiciary Winfridah Mokaya told High Court judges and justice-sector partners that perceptions of unethical conduct have soared from 57% to 67% in just one year, according to…
Former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko stormed back into Kenyan politics Tuesday with the official launch of his National Economic Development Party (NEDP), declaring the new outfit will contest every elective seat in 2027 — including the presidency — despite a Supreme Court ban that still bars him from public office. Sonko, whose colorful tenure as…
Kenya’s bill for imported edible oils rose sharply to Sh25.61 billion in the April-June quarter of 2025, up 6.84% from a year earlier, even though the volume of oil brought into the country barely changed, official data showed Wednesday. The Agriculture and Food Authority reported that Kenya imported 183,139 metric tons of assorted edible oils…
United opposition on Tuesday accused the country’s electoral commission of laying the groundwork to rig the 2027 Kenya presidential election in favor of President William Ruto and threatened to sue individual commissioners and staff rather than the institution itself. The sharp warning came during a funeral in Matunda village, Murang’a County, for Herbert Kariithi Macharia,…
Kenya’s leading telecom giant Safaricom has raised 20 billion shillings ($155 million) from the first tranche of its corporate green bond after the issue was oversubscribed by 177%, the company announced Monday. The five-year bond, which closed Friday, drew bids totaling 41.6 billion shillings against an initial target of 15 billion shillings. Safaricom exercised a…
President William Ruto announced Tuesday that Kenya will launch a National Infrastructure Fund later this week, a move designed to pull in billions of dollars in private investment to bankroll major development projects. Speaking at the opening of an expanded black rhino sanctuary in Tsavo West National Park, Ruto said the fund will use public…
