Why Kenyan President Ruto’s copy-and-paste Singaporean low-cost housing model faces resistance from taxpayers, courts
The history of affordable housing in Singapore is – too – replete with instances of colonial government involvement. However, the policies were modified to align with the programme with rapid economic growth that resulted in a rapidly rising housing demand powered by booming economy and sharp rise in labour-force from foreign countries.
Loud on climate change, Kenyan president contradicts himself by sanctioning paved road construction through forest
The Kenyan government wants to build a 32-mile tarmac road through what has been suggested as a UNESCO World Heritage Site to connect two counties, and the country’s environmental agency, the National Environment Management Authority, issued an environmental impact assessment licence for the project last month. The project would cut through 15 miles of closed canopy forest and likely increase vehicle traffic into animal paths.
Kenya’s president blames corruptionfor huge fireball that killed 4, injured hundreds in Nairobi
The National Environment Management Authority board said in a statement it had suspended four officials, including the director of environmental compliance. The chairman of the board, Emilio Mugo, asked police to investigate the four.
Executive blitz on Kenyan judiciary poses threats to wobbly economy as fears mount it’ll hurt further foreign capital inflows
The ruling irritated the executive, with Ruto and Gachagua launching tirades – without proof – against the judiciary. Justice Majanja and Justice Esther Maina have come under unsavoury attacks, raising suspicions that the president is creating an excuse to staff the judiciary – particularly the commercial and taxes court – with his henchmen.
Death toll in gas truck explosion at cylinder depot in Nairobi rises to 24 and 280 injured
At the scene after daybreak, several houses and shops were burned out. The roof of a four-story residential building about 200 meters (yards) from the scene of the explosion was broken by another flying gas cylinder. Electric wires lay on the ground.
‘Upsurge in terror attacks in Somalia and war in DRC makes East African Standby Force urgent’
The meeting themed, ‘A Capability of Choice for Peace, Security and Integration in the Eastern Africa Region,’ brought ministers of Defence and Security from EASF member states and their representatives from Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda together.
Kenya considering Eurobond buyback in February or March, then return to money market – President Ruto
Ruto also said the government was no longer counting on the Trade and Development Bank (TDB), an African development finance institution, to organise a $1 billion syndicated loan for Kenya, as initially planned.
Defiant Kenyan president: We’ll deploy police to Haiti with or without court ruling
Kenya, which has a long history of taking part in international peace-keeping operations, stepped forward last July and committed 1,000 police officers, saying it was doing so in solidarity with a brother nation.
Not groggy: Diageo’s Kenyan unit calls Tusker beer sale report ‘market speculation’
In an interview with Reuters EABL CEO Jane Karuku denied the brand would be sold
No reciprocal arrangement: High Court declines plan to deploy Kenyan police to Haiti gangland
The United Nations said this week that it had documented 4,789 people killed by gang violence in Haiti last year, an increase of 119 per cent from 2022, and that another 3,000 were kidnapped.
