In 2025, Kenya’s devolution journey entered its twelfth year with a blend of optimism, hard lessons, and renewed calls for a ...

With seventeen (17) goals and one-hundred and sixty-nine (169) indicators, it has been observed in both policy and academic circles, that implementing the Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) agenda ...

Devolution was greeted with great anticipation in Kenya as a means of bringing services closer to the people. However, since the implementation of the recent devolution reforms, criticism has mounted, ...

Council of Governors CEO Mary Mwiti at the Devolution Conference Steering Committee civil society organisations and private sector stakeholders official unveiling of the Devolution Conference 2025 ...

Devolution increases the stakes locally and can also fuel tensions. Primaries in the ruling Jubilee Party and the NASA opposition. Devolution has transformed politics in Kenya, which goes to the polls ...

Following decades of stagnation in basic health care indicators, Kenya’s health sector is slowly picking up. The government has found it challenging in the past to implement reforms aimed at reducing ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Kenya news every morning. Situated in six acres of scrubby farmland at the end of a dirt track, the Makueni Fruit Processing Plant does ...

Ruto was correct that counties would receive KSh415 billion in the 2025/26 financial year, nearly KSh30 billion more than the previous year. His figure of KSh4 trillion transferred to counties since ...

There are some functions of state that are best handled by national governments, others on a regional or local level. Certainly, federalism, or ugatuzi, is not "the easy way" to tackle political, ...

Investment returns are in excess of 28%, figures from the Kenya Property Developers Association show. The sector is dominated by Nairobi, which delivers two-thirds of Kenya’s $47bn economic output.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The reputation of the main hospital in Iten was so bad that the only people who went there were those who ...