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 ...

Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki lifts up the country’s new constitution, which introduced devolution, on 27 August 2010. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images Kenya devolved power and public spending to 47 ...

NAIROBI: The promulgation of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 provided an invaluable opportunity to translate the people’s aspirations, among them equality and inclusivity, into a legal framework. The ...

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 ...

Devolution Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri yesterday denied claims by more than 40 legislators from Mt Kenya region that he plotted their downfall in the recent Jubilee Party nominations. Mr ...

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 ...

LIMURU, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya will launch a devolved system of government next year to try to hasten rural development, but many fear the main result will be to spread the chronic corruption that ...

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 ...

There is a story that the governor of Machakos, in southern Kenya, loves to tell: Since he bought a fleet of ambulances for the county, baby boys are no longer named Mwanzia and girls are no longer ...

Kenya devolved power and public spending to 47 counties in 2013. This was in line with a global trend in which governments were pushing power and resources down to local levels in the hope that ...