May 1, 2018 | Menas Associates, Uganda
Uganda has been increasing its debt burden year-on-year since 2009, with current government debt to GDP levels – as of 2017 – recorded at 38.6%. The key drivers of this rapidly rising debt are the loans that it has taken on for large scale infrastructure projects....
Apr 20, 2018 | East Africa, Menas Associates
Tanzania’s government has published the Electronic and Postal (Online Content) Regulations 2018 which aims to address online TV, radio, as well as websites and social media contributions. One of the main headline items is that bloggers will now have to register their...
Apr 10, 2018 | East Africa, Menas Associates
Kenya’s 2017 election has become one of the many political events embroiled in the allegations against UK-based political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica. Shortly after the reconciliation between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga, the...
Mar 22, 2018 | East Africa, Menas Associates
East African Community (EAC) members Kenya, Uganda and Burundi, along with Ethiopia and Djibouti, have opposed the UN Security Council’s (UNSC) decision in September 2017 to withdraw peacekeeping troops from Somalia, as part of the UN-funded African Union Mission in...
Mar 12, 2018 | East Africa, Menas Associates
The last two weeks in Tanzania have seen several alarming instances of political violence and coercion. Opposition politician Godfrey Luena was killed in his home in what has been linked to a dispute over land grabbing by the local government. In addition, the vocal...
Mar 5, 2018 | East Africa, Menas Associates
Recent revelations that Kenya no longer had access to its IMF stand-by facility have raised some concerns, especially with respect to the credibility of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) and the country’s medium term economic outlook. The IMF later backpedalled slightly...
