Kenya: Kenya Has Tightened Its Laws to Stop Money Laundering - Why Banks Are the Focus

Kenya's banking industry has in recent years been in the crosshairs of national, regional and international watchdogs, given the country's role as a financial hub in eastern… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's Greylisting for Weak Action On Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing

Kenya and Namibia are the latest African countries to be placed on the Financial Action Task Force's grey list over their weak measures against money laundering and terrorism… Read more »

Kenya: Why Do Identical Informal Businesses Set Up Side By Side? It's a Survival Tactic - Kenya Study

The population on the African continent will have nearly doubled by 2050, according to UN projections. About 800 million more young Africans will enter the job market by then.… Read more »

Rwanda: Press Freedom in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda - What Journalists Have to Say About Doing Their Jobs

A majority of the world's population has experienced a decline in press freedom in recent years, according to a UN report. In east Africa, the results are mixed and debatable. Read more »

Kenya: Kenyans Use Humour to Counter Unpopular State Policies - Memes Are the Latest Tool

Seemingly disillusioned with the country's leadership, Kenyans have taken to new ways of expressing their anger and frustration with their government. Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's Had Unusually Hot Weather - an Expert Unpacks What Could Be Causing It

In early 2024 most parts of Kenya, including Nairobi, experienced unusually high temperatures. The World Meteorological Organisation described the hot weather as a global… Read more »

Cameroon: Benefits of Using Cleaner Cooking Fuels Are Blunted in Urban Areas Where Outdoor Air Is Polluted

Household air pollution from cooking, heating and lighting with fuels like wood, charcoal and kerosene poses a substantial global health problem. Read more »

Kenya: Antibiotic Use On Kenya's Dairy Farms Is Putting Consumers and Animals At Risk

Farmers often use antibiotics to keep their livestock healthy. They're sometimes used as "quick fixes", to avoid more costly management measures like regular disinfection, waste… Read more »

Kenya: Mungiki, Kenya's Violent Youth Gang, Serves Many Purposes - How Identity, Politics and Crime Keep It Alive

Kenya has scores of youth gangs known for their violence and links to the politically powerful. None is more infamous than the Mungiki movement, with a past membership estimated to… Read more »

Kenya: Kelvin Kiptum - the Kenyan Runner Who Redefined What It Takes to Win Marathons

Kenyan athletics has lost Kelvin Kiptum, the marathon world record holder who was destined to be the first person to run the race in under two hours. The runner, aged only 24, died… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's Sex Workers Have Solutions to Their Problems, but International NGOs Aren't Hearing Them

In Kenya, rights organisations run by sex workers have gone into numerous partnerships with international organisations over the past decade. In recent research, I set out to… Read more »

Kenya: Healthcare Workers Abuse a Third of Young Mums From Informal Settlements - Study

Adolescent pregnancy is a global public health concern: in 2022, about 13% of girls and young women gave birth before the age of 18. Read more »

Kenya: Kenyan Universities Are Very Short of Professors - Why It Matters and What to Do About It

A Kenyan vice-chancellor recently went public about the scarcity of university professors. There are fewer than 1,000 professors for the country's 68 universities and 562,925… Read more »

Kenya: Should Kenya Abolish All School Exams? Expert Sets Out Five Reasons Why They're Still Useful

The role of examinations in Kenyan schools is under scrutiny. This is because there is a lot that is wrong with the country's examinations, a situation that threatens to derail… Read more »

Africa: Urban Kenyans Mistrust Police Even More Than Rural Residents Do - Study Sets Out Why It Matters

Across the African continent - from Nigeria and Ghana to South Africa - widespread protests have taken place to demand police reform in the wake of police misconduct and brutality.… Read more »

East Africa: What's East Africa's Position On the Israel-Hamas War? an Expert Unpacks the Reactions of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

The reactions of some east African countries to the ongoing conflict in Gaza have been less dramatic than South Africa's. South Africa's parliament has passed a resolution calling… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya At 60 - The Shameful Truth About British Colonial Abuse and How It Was Covered Up

It is fairly well known that the lives of hundreds of thousands of Kenyans were affected by terrible acts of violence under the British colonial administration. The British… Read more »

Kenya: Humiliation and Violence in Kenya's Colonial Days - When Old Men Were Called 'Boy' and Africans Were Publicly Beaten

When King Charles visited Kenya in November 2023, many Kenyans renewed their demands for an official apology for atrocities committed by the British government during the colonial… Read more »

Kenya: Mohamed Amin Was a Famous Kenyan Photojournalist - There's Much More to His Work Than Images of Tragedy

Kenyan photojournalist Mohamed Amin (1943-1996) rose to fame for documenting the 1984 famine in neighbouring Ethiopia with powerful images of the tragedy. He also captured the… Read more »

Kenya: If Kenya Wants to Help Haiti, It Should Push for Colonial Reparations Not Send in the Police

As the security situation in Haiti deteriorates, Kenya has offered to lead a new sort of UN mission to the country from 2024. In early October, the UN Security Council authorised a… Read more »

Kenya: How to Reverse Kenya's Stock Market Losses

Kenya's stock market recently suffered steep losses, making it the worst performing globally. The weak performance has persisted: the Nairobi Securities Exchange 20-share index… Read more »

Kenya: William Ruto's First Year - He Promised to Make Life Easier for Kenyans, but Things Got Worse

It's more than a year since President William Ruto was sworn into office as Kenya's fifth president. He assumed power at a time when Kenya was beset by rising food and fuel prices,… Read more »

Africa: Visa-Free Travel for Africans - Why Kenya and Rwanda Have Taken a Step in the Right Direction

President William Ruto of Kenya recently announced that Kenya's borders would be open to visitors from the entirety of Africa, with no visas required, by the end of 2023. He said Read more »

Kenya: British King Acknowledges Colonial Atrocities in Kenya - Here's What Could Happen Next

On his official visit to Kenya, King Charles III acknowledged Britain's colonial era "wrongdoings". He also paid tribute to Kenyan soldiers who had participated in the first and… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's Courts Were Under Political Pressure - How a Constitutional Reform Empowered Judges

Changes to Kenya's constitution in 2010 on the independence of the judiciary created room for judges to act as guardians of the electoral process. Read more »