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Kimani Kuria, chair of the Kenyan parliament's finance committee, said the committee recommended amending the government's funding bill for the 2024/25 fiscal year to remove a new tax on car ...
After their stunning success forcing the government to shelve $2.7 billion in tax hikes, young Kenyan activists are setting their sights higher, taking aim at deeply ingrained corruption and ...
Thousands of protesters stormed Kenya’s parliament Tuesday to protest tax proposals, burning part of the building, sending lawmakers fleeing and drawing fire from police in unrest that the ...
According to the World Bank 2012 Kenya Economic Update, modern wage jobs include being an "engineer, telecommunication specialist, cut flower worker, teacher, construction worker, housekeepers, professionals, any industrial and manufacturing job, and port and dock workers." In 1989, there were only 1.9M Kenyans employed in wage work.
[20] [21] Kenya's independent policing review body, the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA), launched a probe into the fatal police shooting of protesters with live ammunitions during the 20 June protests. [36] On 25 June, protestors stormed the Parliament in Nairobi after the law was approved. Nineteen people were shot dead by police.
Kenya is a lower middle income economy, with Kenya's GDP hitting $150 billion as of 2024. This is due to increasing technology innovation services. Although Kenya's economy is the largest and most developed in eastern and Central Africa, 16.3% (2023/2024) of its population lives below the international poverty line. [1]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president on Wednesday incorporated the opposition in his new Cabinet, appointing four ministers from the main opposition party in a bid to form a broad-based ...
Chairman of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki called for "peace, security and stability" in Kenya. [16] Diplomats from the United States and 12 other western countries expressed shock at the violence in parliament, [ 4 ] while United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres also expressed concern. [ 9 ]