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Latest Article 19 Dec 2025
The 2025 Policy Year in Review
Introduction The year 2025 was characterised by heightened policy activity in Kenya amid persistent economic strain, accelerating digitalisation, and growing public scrutiny of how regulatory power is exercised. Rather than a clean pivot in direction, the period reflected a complex negotiation between fiscal necessity, constitutional constraints, sectoral realities, and political accountability. Policymaking unfolded in an […]...
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19 Dec 2025
Policy Outlook 2026: Key Issues to Monitor
Introduction As the world heads into an AI-driven 2026, there are several critical things to watch for, both risks and missed opportunities. China is pushing ahead with chip-making after elim...
12 Dec 2025
Supreme Court Reprieve in Digital Payments: Analysing Implications of Decision in Absa Bank Kenya vs. Commissioner for Domestic Taxes
Kenya has established itself as one of Africa’s most sophisticated digital financial ecosystems, earning Nairobi the moniker “Silicon Savannah”. Over the past decade, high mobile penetration, a ...
5 Dec 2025
Fortune Favours the Bold: Kenya’s Strategic Turn in Fiscal Governance
There are moments in a nation’s economic journey when circumstance ceases to be negotiable, when the only way forward is through reinvention. Kenya stands precisely at such a juncture. The country...
5 Dec 2025
How Policy Decisions are Steering the Bond Market
The mood in the fixed-income market has been evolving for months, and the latest bond auction has clearly confirmed this trend. Investors who follow the Treasury market closely are already aware of th...
5 Dec 2025
OpenAI and the Data Sovereignty Quagmire in the EU
Last week, OpenAI updated its data residency options worldwide where data can be stored ‘at rest’. Eligible customers using its API or setting up new ChatGPT Enterprise or ChatGPT Edu workspaces c...
5 Dec 2025
Separating Facts from Fear: Understanding The Kenya-U.S. Health Cooperation Framework’s Implications
Kenya’s new Health Cooperation Framework with the United States (U.S.) represents one of the most consequential restructurings of external health financing in recent years. This discussion emerges a...
28 Nov 2025
The Quiet Emergence of a Domestic Yield Curve: Why Safaricom and EABL Matter More Than Their Numbers
Kenya’s capital markets rarely enjoy the spotlight for structural progress. Too often, they are defined by volatility, political noise, or long periods of stagnation. Yet beneath that surface, real ...
28 Nov 2025
Understanding Safaricom’s Domestic Medium-Term Note Programme
On November 26, 2025, Safaricom sat down with members of the Fourth Estate to unpack its Domestic Medium-Term Note Programme. Throughout the session, executives emphasised transparency, disciplined de...
21 Nov 2025
Kenya’s Inflection Point: The 2025 State of the Nation and the Return of Ambition
In his 2025 State of the Nation Address, President Ruto delivered more than a constitutional ritual; he attempted to reposition the national conversation from crisis management to long-horizon transfo...
21 Nov 2025
Power Beyond Politics: Why Kenya Needs a Coherent, Long-Game Energy Strategy Now
Kenya’s electricity debate often swings between political urgency and economic necessity, yet recent events reveal a more profound structural confusion. Two announcements within days of each other c...
21 Nov 2025
Jukwaa la Usalama: Kenya’s Security Forums Show Promise, but Action Must Follow
Jukwaa la Usalama is a public, county-level dialogue forum initiative launched in 2019 by the Ministry of Interior to engage citizens on security issues. Borrowing from the old ‘baraza’ format, it...
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