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Gunpowder Milkshake: From Mediation Table to Arms Deal Takedown
Reports linking Kenya to the flow of arms used by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have triggered alarm across the Horn of Africa and beyond. If proven, these allegations could place Nairobi in direct violation of international law, strain diplomatic ties with regional partners, and erode its hard-won image as a peace broker. At the […]...
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20 Jun 2025
Regulating Responsiveness: CBK’s Warning to Banks
In April 2025, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) announced that it would begin imposing daily fines on banks that fail to adjust lending rates downward in line with recent reductions in the Central Bank...
20 Jun 2025
The IEBC Appointment Debacle
The recent attempt to reconstitute Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has sparked a legal and political maelstrom, drawing renewed attention to the constitutional pro...
13 Jun 2025
Reining in Ghost Traders: Why KRA Suspended Online VAT Registration
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) requires that a person who supplies taxable goods and or services with a value of Ksh 5 million or more annually should be registered as a taxpayer under the VAT Act....
13 Jun 2025
Government Surveillance: The Curious Case of Pavel Durov
In August 2024, the Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrived at Paris’s Le Bourget Airport, en route to Finland, only to be met by French police. He was arrested on the spot, and held in solitary conf...
13 Jun 2025
Death and Discretion: How Governments Track Without Consent
The death of Albert Ojwang (31) in police custody has reignited public anger, especially among the youth, just as the country approaches the first anniversary of the historic June 25, 2024, protests, ...
13 Jun 2025
Breaking the Consensus: The Issues with the EU’s High-Risk AML Classification of Kenya
In global financial governance, timing and process are everything. Institutions tasked with regulating the cross-border financial system, policing illicit financial flows, and safeguarding financial i...
5 Jun 2025
Imported Vehicle Duty Reforms and Questions on Tax Transparency
A recent shift in Kenya’s vehicle taxation policy is beginning to reshape the cost of importing second-hand cars, leaving importers and consumers bracing for impact. The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA...
5 Jun 2025
Atomic Ambitions: Kenya’s Nuclear Energy Plan
Kenya is exploring nuclear energy as a long-term solution for base-load electricity generation and is on track to establish its first nuclear power plant. This is an avenue to realise the Vision 2030 ...
30 May 2025
The Green Mandate: A Sustainability Wake Up Call
Kenya’s financial sector is at a tipping point. Climate change is no longer a looming threat. It is an immediate crisis. Once considered peripheral, climate change is now a central risk to economic ...
30 May 2025
The Silencing of Koimburi
Just days after President William Ruto vowed there would be no more extrajudicial killings or State-sponsored abductions under his administration, Juja Member of Parliament (MP) George Koimburi was fo...
30 May 2025
Finance Bill, 2025, Submissions: Calling for Tax Certainty
Every year, the Finance Bill comes around, and for many of us, it feels like it’s written in a language only lawyers, accountants and economists can understand. But behind the big words and legal ja...
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