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What Somaliland’s 2024 Elections mean for the China-Taiwan Rivalry in the Horn

#SomalilandElections2024 have shifted power dynamics in #HoA, favoring #China in the #Taiwan-China rivalry. The newly elected gov't is expected to pivot away from #Taiwan & focus on reconciliation with #Somalia. What does this mean for #Somaliland future?

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Sakaja will succeed president Ruto – Kagwanja

Sakaja will succeed president Ruto – Kagwanja

Political analyst Peter Kagwanja has said that Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja is a man on the right path to presidency in the near future. Speaking on Wednesday during an interview with a local TV Kagwanja opined that if Sakaja fulfils his pledges, he will go for the presidency. Governor Sakaja pledged to bring change to the Kenya’s capital after taking his oath in August. “To the people of…

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Peter Kagwanja: There is a serious contradiction in azimio that made Martha look like a helpless duck. Not on her own lack of talent but failure to understand the dynamics of Mt.Kenya politics now. #MorningPrime #kivumbi2022 #kenyanpolitics https://www.instagram.com/p/CgOTWwUsc5i/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Sino-Africa development architecture leads to Africa's prosperity: expert

Sino-Africa development architecture leads to Africa’s prosperity: expert

By Reporter The Sino-Africa architecture of development, featured by the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and the Belt and Road Initiative, lead to prosperity in the African continent, a Kenyan expert says. The Sino-Africa architecture of development, featured by FOCAC and BRI helps lead to prosperity in the African continent, a Kenyan expert said on Sunday. Peter Kagwanja, CEO of Africa Policy…

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Sino-Africa development architecture leads to Africa’s prosperity: expert

Sino-Africa development architecture leads to Africa’s prosperity: expert

The Sino-Africa architecture of development, featured by FOCAC and BRI helps lead to prosperity in the African continent, a Kenyan expert said on Sunday. Peter Kagwanja, CEO of Africa Policy Institute said in a commentary published in the Sunday Nation, a Kenya-based newspaper that the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) form the twin-engine of the…

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China’s triumph over poverty example for Africa -Kenyan scholar – PML Daily

China’s triumph over poverty example for Africa -Kenyan scholar – PML Daily

Peter Kagwanja, CEO of the Africa Policy Institute (PHOTO/Courtesy).NAIROBI — China’s triumph over poverty is an example for Africa, a Kenyan scholar said on Sunday. Peter Kagwanja, CEO of the Africa Policy Institute, a regional think tank, said in a commentary published on the Sunday Nation that China stands at the threshold of completely eradicating extreme poverty. “In Africa, lessons from the…

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A cultural look at China-Africa relations [Culture]

A cultural look at China-Africa relations [Culture]

For this week’s Culture segment, we take a cultural look at China-Africa relations.

Let’s head to Nigeria where two Chinese men have recently been made chiefs.

What does this level of immersion into African culture mean for China-Africa relations?

Claudia Nsono discusses this and more with Africa Policy Institute’s Professor Peter Kagwanja.

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Somaliland is a pearl of democracy, shield it from despotism in the Horn

Somaliland is a pearl of democracy, shield it from despotism in the Horn

Supporters hold banners of candidates during a rally in Hargeisa ahead of Somaliland’s elections scheduled for May 31, 2021. By Peter Kagwanja Democracies, they say, are less likely to go to war with each other. A new bout of Cold War-era authoritarianism, however, threatens to push democracy in the Horn of Africa further into recession. Somaliland, a rare pearl of democracy in the region, is…

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Hassan Sheikh Forging A ‘New Somalia,’ But Farmajo Is Coming

At home, the million-dollar question is whether @HassanSMohamud 's diplomatic charm offensive will re-unify #Somalia & #Somaliland. In the wake of the deadly Las Anod conflict b/t SSC & SL, Villa Somalia seems to be making serious gains in the SO-SL issue.

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Paradise Lost: Can Uhuru's reforms defeat rebellion in Mt Kenya?

Paradise Lost: Can Uhuru’s reforms defeat rebellion in Mt Kenya?

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October 2011. I accompany Meru Governor Kiraitu Murungi, then Minister for Energy and President Mwai Kibaki’s top political strategist, to an informal meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta on Mount Kenya politics. As the ‘Kibaki Succession’ looms, something tells me I am sitting with the future President of Kenya.

My worst nightmare is that…

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AFRICA POLICY INSTITUTE - AFRICA RESEARCH NOTES

AFRICA POLICY INSTITUTE – AFRICA RESEARCH NOTES

1 Issue No. 50 Africa Research Notes July, 2019 Issue No. 50 Africa Research Notes July, 2019 AFRICA POLICY INSTITUTE Knowledge is Power Africa Policy Institute COMING RULING ON MARITIME DISPUTE SEVERELY TESTING KENYA’S SOFT POWER PETER KAGWANJA The pursuit for a non-adversarial negotiated settlement and durable solutions to the security challenges arising from the Somali-Kenya maritime dispute,…

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Ethiopia: Abiy's Ethiopia Democratic Revolution Is Unravelling

Ethiopia: Abiy’s Ethiopia Democratic Revolution Is Unravelling

opinionBy Peter Kagwanja

Upon coming to power on April 2, 2018, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed promised liberty. But one year on, and as Ethiopia edges closer to its election scheduled for 2020, the country’s democratic revolution is eating itself, and inadvertently chipping into the foundations of the existing security order in the volatile Horn of Africa region.

Far from transforming…

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This week has been a busy one for the two main political parties in Kenya. They have launched their manifestos with lofty promises as the day for the elections nears.

Jubilee party, led by President Uhuru Kenyatta, was the first to lauch its manifesto on Monday, followed by the National Super Alliance (NASA) of Raila Odinga, which launched its manifesto on Tuesday.

Jubilee’s manifesto is pegged on three pillars: Transforming Lives, Transforming Societies

and Transforming the Nation. The party says its vision is to build a united Kenya in which wealth is created and prosperity is shared amongst all citizens.

It also promises a fast-growing economy that leaves no one behind, an accountable, professional and efficient government and a role for Kenya as an influential regional power that is at peace with itself and its neighbors.

The party that has been in power for the last four and a half years says that it has already delivered improved security, economic stability, jobs, expanded access to affordable health care and modernized public services.

“We must now redouble our efforts to build upon the foundations of success. The task is not yet complete. The work must continue and should not be derailed,” says President Uhuru in the manifesto.

On the other hand, NASA, in its 7-point manifesto is promising radical changes in the first 100 days in office. It says that theirs is a manifesto for fundamental change which seeks to implement Kenya’s constitution that was enacted in 2010.

“We are offering Kenyans the choice between faithful implementation of our new constitutional dispensation, and yet another triumph of the old order,” says the document in its foreword.

Its seven pillars are national healing and reconciliation, resolving historical injustices and refining the constitution to strengthen devolution of government services to counties.

Other pillars of the NASA manifesto are transforming government into a servant of the people, realizing equality principles enshrined in the constitution, realizing social and economic rights and eradicating poverty and unemployment.

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However, the two documents are short on how they will implement their promises, with critics pointing out that Jubilee is coming with new promises yet it failed to keep the promises it made to the electorate in 2013, while others say the NASA manifesto is too huge and cannot be implemented in five years.

“NASA’s seven-point manifesto is too unwieldy, reactive and duplicitous. With the best of intentions, Kenya will need a hundred years to implement it — at least by 2117 AD,” says Peter Kagwanja, a government-leaning political analyst.

Whereas the two manifestos are different in many ways, they also have similarities. The two parties promise that they will provide free secondary education once in office. The aim of this is to increase the transition rate from primary schools to secondary schools. They also both say they will increase monthly stipends given to the disadvantaged and the elderly. Some critics say this will breed laziness among citizens and also balloon the government spending.

Those opposed to this say that the two parties are not telling Kenyans how they will raise the money to support the promises they are making. They say that the government that comes into power will either increase taxes for citizens or it will resort to more borrowing, which will increase the public wage bill.

The Kenyan elections are set to be held on 8th August. Already, the electoral commission says printing of ballot papers is going on in Dubai, despite a court case that has been filed by the opposition, seeking to cancel the KSH 2.5 billion (USD 241m) tender awarded to a Dubai-based company, Al Ghurair, on allegation that its directors have close ties with the Kenyan President. The company has denied the allegations and the case is set to be heard by a three-judge bench on Friday.

Parties launch manifestos as Kenyan elections near This week has been a busy one for the two main political parties in Kenya. They have launched their manifestos with lofty promises as the day for the elections nears.

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Stronger China-Africa ties key to post-COVID-19 economic recovery: scholar

Stronger China-Africa ties key to post-COVID-19 economic recovery: scholar

Workers go about their work on an assembly line at Twyford Ceramics, a Chinese tiles manufacturing company, in Kajiado County of Kenya, May 12, 2017. (Xinhua/Sun Ruibo)

Stronger China-Africa ties are key to the post-COVID-19 economic recovery of the African continent, a Kenyan scholar said on Sunday.

Peter Kagwanja CEO, Africa Policy Institute, a regional think tank, said in a commentary…

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Power Shift To The Triple Détente In The ‘New Horn’ Is Eroding Kenya’s Influence

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Ethiopia: Abiy's Ethiopia Democratic Revolution Is Unravelling

Ethiopia: Abiy’s Ethiopia Democratic Revolution Is Unravelling

opinionBy Peter Kagwanja

Upon coming to power on April 2, 2018, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed promised liberty. But one year on, and as Ethiopia edges closer to its election scheduled for 2020, the country’s democratic revolution is eating itself, and inadvertently chipping into the foundations of the existing security order in the volatile Horn of Africa region.

Far from transforming…