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Latest Article 12 Apr 2024
Ties that ‘bond’: The push for a diaspora bond gains momentum amidst strong remittance inflows.
The country’s diverse and vast diaspora community spans globally, making the push for a diaspora bond and calls for Kenyans living abroad to invest back home more significant. In the past few weeks, the country’s top leadership has been apprising Kenyans living abroad on the implementation of various government development agendas and wooing them to […]...
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5 Apr 2024
China proposes significant policy changes impacting global trade and competition guidelines: Implications for Kenya.
China recently proposed policy changes that greatly affect its foreign trade relationships and competition guidelines in the international market. China’s decision to implement these sudden chan...
21 Mar 2024
EAC’s plan to boost intra-regional trade by eliminating non-trade barriers.
In the complex world of international trade, barriers come in various forms, extending beyond the traditional realm of tariffs. Non-tariff barriers (NTBs) represent a diverse array of obstacles employ...
21 Mar 2024
Global disputes in taxi-hailing services reveal regulatory challenges: Insights from Australia.
Earlier this week, more than 8,000 taxi and hire car drivers in Australia emerged victorious in a class-action lawsuit against Uber. They sought compensation for the financial setbacks they endured fo...
14 Mar 2024
Now you see it; now you don’t affair: Kenya will still deploy police force in Haiti as the West keeps off the hot potato.
Kenya will still lead a UN-backed multinational police force in the Caribbean country of Haiti to help quell gang violence once a transitional presidential council is formed. President William Ruto,...
14 Mar 2024
Kenya joins the Egmont Group: Implications on businesses and the war against money laundering and terrorism financing
Kenya has recently been under increased spotlight, particularly on the money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) front. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recently put Kenya on the heighten...
14 Mar 2024
AfCFTA Digital Trade Protocol: A review of the key to overcoming barriers to intra-Africa digital trade.
Digital trade, defined as digitally enabled transactions for the trade of goods and services, is reshaping the global economy and the regional economy is not exempted. Its impact on growth, developmen...
8 Mar 2024
Potential obstacles in Raila’s bid for AUC job even as State machinery prepares for the campaign.
Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Coalition leader Raila Odinga’s fate for the position of African Union Commission (AUC) chairperson hangs on the decision of the African heads of state and government f...
1 Mar 2024
Finger on the Pulse
President Ruto presides over groundbreaking of Talanta Sports City President William Ruto on Friday presided over the groundbreaking ceremony of the construction of Talanta Sports Stadium. The event t...
1 Mar 2024
SAMA hosts President Ruto, Ethiopia’s PM to discuss Kenya’s digital transformation
On Tuesday this week, SAMA AI was host to Kenya’s President William Samoei Ruto and Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, alongside Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Information, Communication...
1 Mar 2024
Shaping global environmental policy to tackle climate change, in light of UNEA
The recent conclusion of the sixth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) in Nairobi, Kenya, has underscored the urgency of shaping global environmental policy to combat the escalating climate c...
1 Mar 2024
President Ruto’s visit to the US and its implications for STIP.
Before the United States Strategic Trade and Investment Partnership (STIP), there was the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a multilateral agreement with African countries enacted in 2000. In...
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