A regional body recently released programmes incorporating marginalised pastoral communities into the mainstream economies. The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad) says that since the pastoral regions are the key to cross-border trade and regional integration, it would be foolhardy to exclude them. …
The African political arena is replete with riveting episodes of presidents falling out with their deputies, occasioning major political realignments in the subsequent political contests. One more such episode could be in the offing in Kenya. All indications are that the political…
The Ugandan government is at a crossroads with the Chinese over contractual obligations. In early June, Uganda’s Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja, publicly criticised Chinese companies for failing to honour their contractual obligations to rehabilitate roads in Kampala. “How did you come up…
The Director General of the European Union (EU) Directorate for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), MACIEJ POPOWSKI, was in Kenya after visiting Somalia. He speaks to FRED OLUOCH about the EU humanitarian work in the eastern African region and…
Kenya, once the citadel of academic excellence in Africa, has suffered a severe diminish in stature in the recent past. The East African state has not only been recording a remarkable decline in education standards, but has also suffered the ignominy of…
The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development member states are designing policies and pre-emptive measures against desert locust invasion that caught them unawares between 2019 and 2022. The eight Igad member states comprising Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda, came…
In yet another attempt at managing the non-biodegradable waste menace, the Kenya Government has banned using plastic bags to collect and dispose of garbage. Through the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), the government stated that plastic bags would not be allowed in the market,…
Tanzania truck owners who transport goods to the landlocked countries in the central and east African region are currently reeling from the rise in transport costs and bureaucracy in the borders. The shipping lines recently increased cargo transport by 70 percent from…
The doyen of Kenya’s opposition politics and an aspirant for the African Union Commission (AUC) chairmanship, Raila Odinga, recently hit the government hard, sparking a backlash that is sure to hang around for some time. Speaking at a Nairobi slum where the…
As Somalia president Hassan Sheikh Mohmoud marked his second year in office on May 15, Hilaal Institute issued a new report that analysed the political, economic, and security sectors from May 2022 to May 2024. The report digs into President Mohamud’s tenure…
