By Mohamed Billow Abdi The enactment and suspension of Section 22 of the Election Act by Parliament appears paradoxical to…
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The pile of integrity statutes appear unable to shake the entrenched corruption ecosystem; Kenya needs a complete shift in its…
Kenyans continue to prefer democracy, and over the last decade, a fully democratic Kenyan state has appeared to become more…
Dr. Edwin Wanjawa Every political system lives by some principles and precedents, whether it is a constitutional system or not.…
Flip-flopping interests and selfish, deal-cutting regional leaders determined to monopolise power: only a credible, non-partisan electoral body can deliver a…
By Prof John Harbeson Kenya’s democratic Constitution reached its tenth birthday a year ago, the outcome of more than three…
Prof John Harbeson Ethiopia’s very existence as it has been known for more than a century may well be at…
The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) emerged as an incongruous liberation in the mid-1970s. Theirs was a befuddled agenda that…
Eritrea is endowed with enormous potential. Boasting a 1,200-kilometer coastline and a fair share of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait —…
By Prof John Harbeson There is something problematic about presuming to quantify the quality of democracy. Democracy is too fundamentally…
