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A Slipping Shilling, a Challenging Market: What Uganda’s Currency Means for Kenya

For Kenya, whose manufacturers depend heavily on Uganda’s market, the Ugandan shilling is more than a foreign-exchange story. It is a question of purchasing power, industrial competitiveness, and the resilience of regional trade. The Ugandan shilling has weakened sharply against the US dollar, crossing the UGX4,000-per-dollar threshold in October 2026. When a currency loses value, the […]...

Employment Transfers: Where Should Employers Draw the Line?

Employment transfers are a routine feature of organisational management, enabling employers to redistribute personnel, meet operational demands and deploy skills where they are most needed. Whether dr...

10 Oct 2026

Rethinking Public Sector Engagements: Contracts, Procurement Rules and Risks

Working with government can create real public value, particularly during elections, emergencies and major service-delivery programmes. Public sector work is not an ordinary commercial arrangement, as...

3 Oct 2026

Dangote Refinery Breaks Ground, Putting Africa’s Financing Ambitions to the Test

On 30 September 2026, President William Ruto joined African leaders and businessman Aliko Dangote in Lamu to break ground on a proposed US$16 billion East African refinery, designed to process up to 7...

19 Sep 2026

A Balancing Act? Judicial Correction, Investor Confidence and the Price of Uncertainty

Eleven weeks after the Court of Appeal cleared the way for the Government of Kenya to sell 15% of its Safaricom shareholding to Vodafone Kenya, a three-judge High Court bench has undone the transactio...

11 Sep 2026

Inside the Magadi Test: How Tata’s Exit Is Redrawing Kenya’s Mining Politics

From Compliance Notice to National Flashpoint The Tata Chemicals Magadi dispute began quietly, in the language of notices, royalties and licence conditions. A royalty notice came in May 2026, ...

11 Sep 2026

Kenya Weathers External Shocks as Domestic Challenges Test Economic Resilience

Kenya’s private-sector activity slipped into contraction in August, as higher input costs, material shortages, and weaker purchasing weighed on output. However, economists noted that new order...

29 Aug 2026

The KSh3.2M Question: Who Pays for Kenya’s Customs Loopholes?

A technical adjustment in customs administration has quickly escalated into a confrontation over the cost of doing business in Kenya. Following the Kenya Revenue Authority’s decision to raise the Cu...

7 Aug 2026

The Stakes for East Africa: Inside Dangote’s Lamu Refinery

The construction of the proposed 700,000-barrel-per-day oil refinery in Lamu County, Kenya, is expected to begin before the end of the year, with the facility projected to create about 60,000 jobs.�...

17 Jul 2026

The State of Openness Report: Can Transparency Finally Become Measurable?

On 16 July 2026, President William Ruto commissioned the development of Kenya’s inaugural State of Openness Report, marking one of the most consequential governance reforms undertaken by the Ken...

6 Jul 2026

What Kenya is getting wrong in the Asahi Diageo Deal

For much of its constitutional history, Kenya’s judiciary has occupied an uneasy position in economic governance. The Constitution, 2010, transformed the courts into active custodians of public ...

29 May 2026

From Soft Regulation to Strict Enforcement in the Telecommunications Sector

Kenyans have become increasingly familiar with the frustrations associated with unreliable telecommunications services. Dropped calls during critical conversations, delayed mobile transactions, and fr...

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