Impact of Kenyan polls in Africa shows the East Africans have carved out a roadmap for reforms
Kenyans have carved out a roadmap for themselves and democratic reformers across the continent, experts say. The country’s 2022 General Election has not followed the familiar script of voters exercising their civic duty only to helplessly sit back and watch their votes be manipulated. As work-in-progress, Kenyans have attempted to...
Kenyans have set a new and higher electoral bar for themselves in August 9 consequential polls
Despite shortcomings, Kenyans have set a new and higher electoral bar for themselves, their neighbours, and the rest of Africa – demonstrating how closely contested elections can be credibly resolved through sufficiently independent institutions. Kenya’s Supreme Court has upheld the results of the August 2022 presidential election affirming that Deputy...
Burundi parliament elects new prime minister on back of president alleging imminent coup
Burundi’s parliament on Wednesday approved the appointment of a new prime minister after President Evariste Ndayishimiye warned last week of a possible coup plot against him. Security Minister Gervais Ndirakobuca has replaced Alain Guillaume Bunyoni as prime minister after a unanimous vote in parliament, the national broadcaster RTNB said. Mr...
US President Biden, Obama reunite at White House to unveil latter’s portrait shunned by Trump
Former US president Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were finally be honoured on Wednesday with the official unveiling of their portraits in the White House, resuming a tradition that fell by the wayside under Donald Trump. Biden, who served as vice president throughout Obama’s two terms, is “looking...
Electricity politics take centre stage as France weighs viable options to nuclear energy
Pro-nuclear energy activists often use Germany as an example of a country that drastically cut its nuclear energy production – in response to safety concerns raised by the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 – only to end up buying electricity from France. Although there’s a lot of talk...
Ukraine says it’s dispatched grain to Somalia, but Russia disagrees and accuses EU hoarding food
Ukraine’s president says tonnes of grain from his country will arrive in the coming weeks in Somalia, where famine approaches and the global crises of food security and climate change put millions at risk. President Volodymyr Zelensky’s comment came as Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses the West of sending most...
Kenya polls: Kenyatta family treated the Kikuyu like their serfs, now the community is revolting
About a month to the August 9, 2022 elections, a Kikuyu elder man was ushered in the offices of Enke Ltd, at the Chancery Building, uptown Nairobi, on Valley Road. Enke Ltd is one of the Kenyatta family’s flagship companies. The man had an appointment with the princely Muhoho Kenyatta,...
Opinion divided in Kenya as presidential poll loser challenges results in Supreme Court
Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga has filed an electronic copy of his challenge against the results of this month’s election, a lawyer for his Azimio La Umoja coalition has told a local broadcaster. “What we did this morning is to file the online copy,” lawyer Daniel Maanzo told Kenyan television...
Election aftershock: Kenya’s economic outlook grim as jittery lenders withhold funds from government
In the streets of Nairobi, it appears to be business as usual as people return to work even after the August 16 announcement by presidential candidate Raila Odinga that he will be moving to court to challenge William Ruto’s win. The macro economy tells a different story, though. Following the...
Elections: Polling centres in Kenya close, early results expected from around midnight
Polling centres in Kenya have closed and counting is expected to start shortly after, election officials say. The polling stations, according to rules, will automatically convert into tallying centres. Early results are expected to start streaming in from 9pm East African time. Unconfirmed reports, quoting Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission...
