May 16, 2022
Kenya: Mombasa Port - How Kenya's Auditor-General Misread China's Standard Gauge Railway Contracts
In December 2018, a leaked letter from the Kenyan auditor-general's office sparked a rumour that Kenya had staked its bustling Mombasa Port as collateral for the Chinese-financed… Read more »
Kenya: Kenya's Judiciary Can Break the Cycle of Electoral Violence - If It's Independent
Kenya is no stranger to highly contested elections, including those pervaded by political and ethnic violence. Read more »
Kenya: #JusticeForSheila Highlights the Precarious Lives of Queer People in Kenya
Kenya is one of 32 countries in Africa that criminalise homosexuality. People who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) are frequently stigmatised,… Read more »
Kenya: How Judiciary Can Break the Cycle of Electoral Violence
Kenya is no stranger to highly contested elections, including those pervaded by political and ethnic violence. Read more »
May 15, 2022
Kenya: Big Infrastructure Projects On the Continent Should Work for Everyone
Big infrastructure projects should be based on the needs of people and communities. Often, they are criticised for benefiting the wealthy only. These projects reflect specific… Read more »
May 14, 2022
Kenya: Kenya's Fuel Crisis - How the Country's Subsidy System Works
Oil is an essential commodity for Kenya's transport and industrial production, electricity generation and water provision. In 2008, as the world grappled with high oil prices,… Read more »
May 01, 2022
Kenya: How Changing Livestock Markets Could Reduce Conflict
Over nine million Kenyans are pastoralists out of a total population of 50 million. Together they hold livestock worth over US$1 billion. Livestock is their source of food, health,… Read more »
April 30, 2022
Kenya: Kibaki's Capitalist Outlook On Education Brought Mixed Results
Emilio Mwai Kibaki, retired third president of independent Kenya who has died , had a rich and multifaceted legacy as a long serving public official. Read more »
November 22, 2021
Kenya: A Fossil Cranium From Kenya Tells the Story of an Extinct Elephant Species
Some 4.5 million years ago, during the early Pliocene epoch, Kenya's Lake Turkana looked very different than it does today. Grasslands and open woodlands were spreading in cooler,… Read more »
October 19, 2020
Africa: Invasive Mosquito Species Could Bring More Malaria to Africa's Urban Areas
A species of mosquito that can carry malaria - known as Anopheles stephensi - has invaded eastern Africa and is quickly moving across the region. Moina Spooner, from The… Read more »