President Uhuru Kenyatta is pushing ahead with an anti-corruption drive that involves a new chief prosecutor – Noordin Mohamed Haji – and a re-energised Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission. Efforts to tackle corruption have increased following the disputed presidential election result of late 2017 and subsequent symbolic handshake in March 2018 when president Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga settled their main...

Kenya and the five other members of the East African Community (EAC) have decided to expand their joint trade footprint and fully roll out the trade bloc’s single customs territory (SCT). The SCT commenced in 2014 as a pilot project that largely centred on the Northern Transport Corridor running from the Kenyan port of Mombasa through to other countries in the region. The SCT arrangements include a common external tariff (CET) structure...