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13 Mar 2026
When Technology Outpaces Consultation: The NTSA Instant Fines Debate
The rollout of the National Transport and Safety Authority’s (NTSA) automated instant fines system has sparked widespread debate, highlighting a critical governance issue: the lack of meaningful pub...
13 Mar 2026
Reinventing Infrastructure Finance: Inside Kenya’s National Infrastructure Fund
With the recent passage of the National Infrastructure Fund Bill, 2025, by the National Assembly, Kenya is entering a new chapter in its approach to financing large-scale infrastructure. This is an im...
6 Mar 2026
Infrastructure, Opportunity and the Constitution: Why Kenya Must Get the Conversation Right
Moments of global disruption often reveal structural realities that ordinary stability tends to conceal. The ongoing crisis across parts of the Middle East offered one such moment. As airspace closure...
27 Feb 2026
SCOTUS Limits Emergency Tariff Powers, But Trade Uncertainty Remains
This week, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled that President Donald Trump could not use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose sweeping global tariffs wit...
27 Feb 2026
Vellum Health: The Alarming Rise of Stroke in Younger Populations
Stroke is still widely considered a disease of old age, yet across Africa, a worrying shift is occurring. Increasingly, children, teenagers, and young adults are experiencing stroke, with serious impa...
13 Feb 2026
Ruto’s 2027: NYOTA as a Youth Magnet and Visibility in ‘Development Tours’
As the 2027 Kenyan general elections draw closer, President William Ruto is clearly deploying a calculated, multipronged strategy designed to shore up support across key demographics and critical swin...
13 Feb 2026
Household Pressure Meets Revenue Reality: The Case for Salary Tax Relief
The Kenya Bankers Association (KBA) recently called for a 5 per cent cut in salary taxes, highlighting a growing divide in Kenya’s economic debate. This proposal comes at a time when househ...
13 Feb 2026
A Future Without Plastic Pollution
Plastics are everywhere – in the packaging that protects our food, in the clothes we wear, and in the products we use daily. Their strength and durability, once seen as virtues, have become one of t...
13 Feb 2026
Trade and Financial Services Round Up: Issue No. 4 of 2026
Kenya Kenya Offers KQ to Foreign Investors for KSh258 billion The Treasury intends to seek a foreign strategic investor to inject between KSh154.8 billion and KSh258 billion (US$1.2–US$2 billion) in...
9 Feb 2026
County Round-Ups, Week-Ended 6th Feb
County Notice Mombasa The Constitution of Kenya, County Governments Act (Cap. 265), and Intergovernmental Relations Act (Cap. 265F) Intergovernmental Partnership Agreement on Bursaries and Scholarship...
9 Feb 2026
KENYA GAZETTE, WEEK ENDED 6TH FEBRUARY
The State Corporations Act (Cap. 446) and The Science, Technology and Innovation Act (No. 28 of 2013) Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI), Appointment The President has appointed Lt. Gen. (Rtd.)...
6 Feb 2026
Analysis of the Government-Owned Enterprises Act, 2025
The government has been conducting a myriad of governance reforms, including reforms in State Corporations (SCs). In October 2023, the National Treasury released the Ownership Policy of Government-Own...
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