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Dangote's KPC stake and the fight ahead

Nairobi, Oct. 22 -- When I met Dr Kenne Belgrade, the emerging dealmaker who closed the $300 million block transaction transferring a 24.7 percent stake in Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) to the Dangote ... Read More


Preserve Raila's Kisumu molasses dream

Nairobi, Oct. 15 -- As we honoured the late Raila Odinga on Thusday, one question kept returning to my mind: Is this the end of the road for the Kisumu Molasses plant and for his grand plan of asset r... Read More


How Kenya can protect sugar sector

Nairobi, Oct. 8 -- I attended an event in Nairobi on Thursday convened by the Kenya Sugar Board and billed as a "consultative stakeholder meeting" on the availability and use of locally refined white ... Read More


Dangote refinery puts Kenya's oil in focus

Nairobi, Oct. 1 -- Five African heads of state were on parade this week at the groundbreaking of the Lamu-based Dangote East Africa Refineries. Their presence underlined the pan-African ambition and g... Read More


Kenya's big transparency problem

Nairobi, Sept. 24 -- We are in the middle of a raging debate about the role and powers of the Office of the Controller of Budget-the gatekeeper of the public purse-following remarks by its current hol... Read More


Public participation: Beyond the tick-box

Nairobi, Sept. 17 -- There are major jitters in the market as investors continue to digest Tuesday's High Court ruling nullifying the government's sale of a 15 percent stake in Safaricom to Vodacom. ... Read More


Public participation: The policy paradox

Nairobi, Sept. 17 -- There are major jitters in the market as investors continue to digest Tuesday's High Court ruling nullifying the government's sale of a 15 percent stake in Safaricom to Vodacom. ... Read More


Geopolitics behind Kenya's mineral push

Nairobi, Sept. 10 -- My take on Magadi soda. When we are through with politicking and election-cycle optics, we will still be facing big choices that will shape our mineral sector for years to come. ... Read More


Why aviation sector strike wasn't inevitable

Nairobi, Sept. 3 -- For two days, Kenya's aviation sector was paralysed as staff downed tools in a strike that grounded flights and stranded thousands of passengers. Yet this disruption was not inevi... Read More


Candidates must offer bold fixes for debt crisis

Nairobi, Aug. 27 -- As Kenya enters another season of presidential campaign manifestos, we are once again about to be flooded with grand promises and lofty political rhetoric. But if there was ever a... Read More