Kenya's New Sovereign Wealth Fund Bill Builds Election-Year Firewall for Public Finances
The Sovereign Wealth Fund will operate as a special government fund owned by the Treasury in trust for the country.
The Privatization Act 2025 is Set to Overhaul Kenya’s State Asset Sale Rules
President William Ruto signed the Privatization Act 2025, replacing the 2005 law and creating a new framework for the sale of state-owned enterprises. For real time market updates and [...]
Stolen Childhoods: Confronting Child Marriage in Somalia
Every year in Somalia, childhoods are quietly stolen. Thousands of girls- many still in primary school- are married off before they turn eighteen. Some are barely teenagers; others, shockingly, as [...]Eastern Africa Plots Unified Spectrum Strategy to Boost Broadband Access
The East African Community (EAC) and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Secretariats are set to develop a joint regional roadmap to translate new commitments on spectrum management into concrete policy, regulatory, [...]Lawmakers Grill SHA CEO Mercy Mwangangi Over Legal Fees, Audit Irregularities
The Social Health Authority (SHA) paid nearly KSh 92 million in legal fees to recover claims worth only KSh 13.9 million, a disparity at the center of a parliamentary probe [...]Kenya Increases its Air Passenger Service Levy
The Cabinet Secretary for Transport now holds the authority to vary air passenger service charges from time to time through official gazette notices, following the enactment of the Air Passenger [...]Kenyan Court Rules ‘Internet Access Not A Human Right’
The High Court has ruled that access to the internet is not a fundamental human right, rejecting a public interest petition that sought to compel the government to guarantee universal [...]Kenya Moves to Commercialise Genetically Modified Cassava
The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) has invited public comments on a proposal by the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) to commercialise genetically modified (GM) cassava across 18 counties. According to [...]Kenya Upgrades Cybercrime Law to Hand Gov’t Sweeping Powers to Block Websites
New amendments to cybercrime laws have given the government broad authority to block websites and online applications it deems harmful, deepening worries about the state’s crackdown over the freedom of [...]CBK Strips PayU Kenya of Payment Licence
PayU Kenya Limited has been stripped of its operating licence by the Central Bank of Kenya, days after the company entered liquidation, drawing a close to the Prosus-owned payment firm’s [...]Kenya’s Public Debt Rises to KSh 11.97 Trillion
Kenya’s total public debt rose to KSh 11.97 trillion at the end of August 2025, equivalent to 67.4% of GDP, according to the National Treasury’s Monthly Debt Bulletin. External Debt [...]Currency Stability Lowers Kenya’s Debt Stock by KSh 41bn
Kenya’s total public debt stood at KSh 11.77 trillion at the end of July 2025, equivalent to 66.9% of GDP, according to the National Treasury’s latest Monthly Debt Bulletin. The [...]
