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According to the Election Campaign Financing Act, 2013, the regulations should have been in place one year to the August 9, 2022 General Election.

A parliamentary committee has declared the Sh5.40 levy on a litre of diesel invalid, setting the stage for removal of the charge that has partly led to costly fuel.

Aspirants contesting in the August 2022 General Election are free to splash billions of shillings in their campaigns.

The Court of Appeal upheld the High Court ruling which declared the Building Bridges Initiative as illegal and unconstitutional.

OPINION KNUT Secretary-General Hon. Wilson Sossion.[Edward Kiplimo,Standard] Failure by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to implement the 2017/2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) in its entirety has exposed a reality that Kenyan teachers have long confronted – the government has failed to enforce the labour laws. Going by what 376,774 teachers in Public schools are exposed to, it is now clear that we have very weak systems of labour protection, of which some individuals have taken...

Farmers sue to stop Kenya-UK trade deal Monday March 01 2021 Kenya’s Cabinet Secretaries Fred Fred Matiang’i (front) and Betty Maina (third left) led Kenya and the UK in signing a post-Brexit bilateral trade agreement. PHOTO | FILE Advertisement Small-scale farmers opposed to duty free access of some products from the United Kingdom want the government stopped from entering a free trade deal with Britain. The shareholder growers, under the Kenya Small-Scale Farmer Forum, have filed a petiti...

Court clears hurdle to coffee reforms Tuesday February 23 2021 By JOSEPH WANGUI Summary The farmers co-operative societies- Rwama, Gitwe, Thirikwa and Iyego- wanted court to declare the new regulations, which propose sweeping reforms, as unconstitutional, null and void. The societies are from Central Kenya. But justice Weldon Korir faulted them for making general claims on violation of the constitution without citing particular regulations. They failed to link any particular regulation to a par...

In the media Australian senate endorses news media bargaining code Latest approval takes bargaining code between news media companies and Google and Facebook a step closer to law. Australias controversial and internationally debated News Media Bargaining Code is a step closer to being enacted into legislation following the Senates decision to pass the Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code Bill 2020 .(12 February 2021). More... Government moving in the right direction on Federal...

“Whenever we complain, the landlord tells us that we are free to relocate to another building,” said Ms Auma.