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7 Feb 2025
Kenya’s evolving climate change regulations: Carbon markets & non-market approaches
Kenya’s climate policy landscape is evolving, with significant legislative advancements shaping the country’s approach to carbon trading and broader climate action. It took seven years for...
7 Feb 2025
Vivo Energy’s Dilemma & The Gravity of Quality Control in Franchising
Content creator Tanuki Garage last week posted a video in which he tested the quality of fuel from various petrol stations across Nairobi. According to his findings, Shell V-Power, a premium fuel, per...
7 Feb 2025
The Implications of State Corporations Reform
On 21st January 2025, the Executive committed to streamlining government operations, reducing waste, and curbing excesses. The Cabinet also approved a series of recommendations aimed at reforming Stat...
7 Feb 2025
BRS breach exposes Kenya’s weak cybersecurity
Last Friday, B2BHint, a Moldavian company, infiltrated the government-owned Business Registration Service (BRS), the sole custodian of a list of all companies registered in Kenya. The business intelli...
3 Feb 2025
Kenya Gazette Review – Week ended 31st January 2025
Legislative Supplements The Kenya Union of Special and Professional Guards (Deduction of Union Dues) Order, 2024 The Amalgamated Union of Kenya Metal Workers (Deduction of Union Dues) Order, 2024 The ...
31 Jan 2025
The rise of TikTok as a political tool
In 2024, Kenyan youth mobilized on TikTok to protest the Finance Bill, forcing government action. The platform has since become a key political battleground, with politicians leveraging it to engage t...
31 Jan 2025
Regulatory freezes: Trump’s order and lessons for Kenya
When President Donald Trump first took office in 2017, one of his earliest executive actions was a regulatory freeze—a move he has now repeated on his return to the White House in 2025. This directi...
31 Jan 2025
The Agony of waiting: What next for AGOA and STIP?
President Trump spent his first week in office signing proclamations, memoranda and executive orders, some of which will directly impact Africa. For example, the ‘America First’ trade policy calls...
31 Jan 2025
Trump 2.0: Assessing America First Trade Policy’s Impact on International Trade
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive orders. Among them was the ‘America First’ trade policy. This policy puts the American economy, workers, and nationa...
31 Jan 2025
Deepseek vs ChatGPT: Can Africa follow suit in the next AI revolution?
The launch of DeepSeek, a Chinese-developed artificial intelligence (AI) model, has sent shockwaves through the generative AI landscape and the broader tech ecosystem. Its latest iteration, DeepSeek-R...
31 Jan 2025
Kenya Intensifies Efforts For AU Reforms
This week, President William Ruto hosted a high-level retreat of the Extended Bureau of the African Union Institutional Reforms at State House, Nairobi. The retreat comes just weeks before the 38th Or...
27 Jan 2025
Kenya Gazette 24th January, 2025
THE KENYA CULTURAL CENTRE ACT (Cap. 218) KENYA CULTURAL CENTRE RE – APPOINTMENT KUNGU MUIGAI (CAPT.) has been reappointed to be a member of the Kenya Cultural Centre Council, for a period of thr...
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