In Kenya, China’s influence can be clearly seen in the high-profile Mombassa-Nairobi Railway, the Lamu deep seaport, and the towering Global Trade Centre. However, beyond these massive projects built by…
Chinese lending and investments in African nations has created what many fear are debt traps, large amounts of money owed by the various countries to China with natural resources or…
In the early 1900s the colonial British government in Kenya pushed thousands of native Maasai tribesmen off their land in Laikipia County in order to give it to European farmers.…
As the accompanying excerpt from the South African trade publication DefenceWeb notes, Kenya just opened a small arms factory producing 9 mm pistols and 7.62 mm assault rifles. President Kenyatta…
The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), a peacekeeping force comprised of troops from several African nations, faces the strongest challenges to its ability to conduct military operations since its…
Despite Kenya’s Isiolo County being located far from the Kenya-Somalia border as well as the country’s hotspots of violent extremism, such as Nairobi and the coast, and despite the deployment…
On 26 September, troops from the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) and Somali National Army (SNA) exchanged fire along the border between Bulahawa and Mandera towns amidst protests over the alleged…
Kenyan police have been busy trying to interrupt human trafficking rings, especially those that are moving African women and girls to Middle Eastern countries. Traditionally, as the accompanying excerpted article…