Devolution increases the stakes locally and can also fuel tensions. Primaries in the ruling Jubilee Party and the NASA opposition. Since he bought a fleet of ambulances for the county, baby boys are ...

If devolution is a double-edged sword, from where I sit I can only see the liabilities; the benefits are starting to look like a pipe dream. We have devolved everything undesirable, from corruption to ...

NAIROBI: Though limited in some ways, devolution represents a major transformation of society. It reverses the system of control and authority established by the colonial powers and perpetuated by ...

A boy carries water in one of Kenya’s arid regions that has been gripped by drought. Dong Jianghui/Xinhua via Getty Images The ability of Kenya’s 47 county governments to manage food security has been ...

During a meeting with Kenyan governors, President William Ruto ordered the transfer of all pending budgets and functions that are still being held by the national government to counties. “This ...

Nairobi — Nandi Senator Kiprotich Cherargei has lauded President William Ruto for what he termed a decisive intervention to "rescue" Nairobi City County from alleged maladministration under Governor ...

Beginning in 2013, Kenya’s devolution of fiscal and administrative power to county governments has begun to address some of the historical marginalisation of regions and ethnic groups not politically ...

Nairobi — Embakasi East Member of Parliament Babu Owino has criticized the newly signed national-county cooperation framework on Nairobi's governance, terming it the "greatest attack on devolution ...