Strategic Intelligence News

Africa has no candidates vying for the World Trade Organization anymore. Strategic Intelligence has analyzed the underlying factors that led to this withdrawal. Kenya had positioned a woman Amina Mohamed to vie for the post. Ghana also had appointed a strong candidate but both African countries no-longer have candidates for the post. Amina Mohamed had great support and likely to please African... Read more

A consortium of companies led by China Communications Construction Company has won a 41 billion shillings ($484 million) contract to build the first three berths at Lamu port. The LAPSSET project will see the consortium build the first three berths at Kenya’s new mega port in Lamu. Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia (LAPSSET) transport corridor project will add 2 to 3 percent to Kenya’s... Read more

A tough talking president and a focused young economist about to economically transform East and Central Africa’s most powerful country deployed geopolitical power as his modus operadi in international relations. The government of Kenya will respect its international partners and obligations and they, too, should reciprocate equally, a statement that connotes intolerance to foreign play in Nairobi’s political-economics. European and Western Diplomats... Read more

Up to 3 or even more witnesses out of the 12 ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda have withdrawn their testimonies against President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya. Witnesses Number 2, 9, and 10 were among the 12 witnesses the office of the prosecutor has been relying on besides witness No 4, James Maina Kabutu, Throughout the past three years, Strategic Intelligence has admonished the... Read more

Kenya’s internal security institutions effectively neutralized threats on national security by clamping down on political activism, mass action, slum based political militancy, besides rapid deployment to end political violence. Diplomats from the European Union and the West in Kenya warned that Kenya would find itself in a challenging situation internationally if Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto were elected to office. This was... Read more

The risk for the UK is that it is seen as trying to impose “white man’s justice” whereas it has crucial mutual relationship with Kenya. British lawmakers have warned their diplomats in Kenya to carefully place in good stead the British strategic interests in Kenya in reference to political events and situations in the Sub-Saharan and East and Central African military... Read more