The Money Was Supposed to Go Elsewhere Kenya’s National Treasury is facing serious scrutiny after it emerged that Sh30 billion borrowed through a Eurobond issuance last year was quietly redirected to cover shortfalls in domestic borrowing — a move that…
A Contract, A Promise, and a Country Watching Closely Picture this: you land at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenya’s supposed crown jewel of aviation, and you are immediately greeted by overcrowded terminals, ageing infrastructure, and the quiet humiliation of watching…
Two Presidents, One Table, and a Continent Watching President Cyril Ramaphosa and Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah are sitting down in Pretoria for the fourth South Africa-Namibia Bi-National Commission — and this meeting is bigger than a diplomatic photo opportunity. It…
The Money Is Real — Now What You Do With It Matters Cabinet Secretary Salim Ruku stood before a packed Kirubia Stadium in Tharaka Nithi County and delivered a message that cut through the usual government fanfare: Ksh.154 million had…
Every time a building collapses in Kenya, the pattern is the same: rubble, bodies, a press conference, and then silence. Investigations stall. Prosecutions never materialize. The contractors who cut corners walk free. The developers who bribed their way through approvals…
What just happened — and why it matters beyond South Africa’s borders South Africa’s National Treasury just froze R13.5 billion in government transfers to 69 municipalities across all nine provinces. That’s not a bureaucratic footnote. That’s a government telling its…
Picture this: a government agency built to serve the people, to wire up public hospitals, schools and courts with the technology they need to function — and instead, it becomes a black hole where billions disappear, tenders rot in bureaucratic…
There is a political war brewing in Siaya County, and it has nothing to do with policy. It is personal. It is loud. And if you have been paying attention, you already know that Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi is done…
Something has died inside the Orange Democratic Movement, and most of its leaders are too comfortable to notice — or too complicit to care. The party that once defined opposition politics in Kenya, that carried the weight of millions of…
Kenya just secured a Ksh161.8 billion (USD 1.25 billion) loan from the World Bank — but the money did not come easy, and it did not come free of conditions. The central thesis here is straightforward: this loan is not…
