Rights lobby groups and Kenyans on social media warn State against intimidating critics. Some politicians argue that Njeri was facilitating public participation on the Finance Bill, 2025.
USAID is a major funder of NGOs in the country, according to 2023 figures, with its budget for programmes in Kenya standing at $435 million (Sh56.6 billion).
Journalists, government critics and social media influencers, would have faced surveillance and online harassment had a developer sold a controversial spyware tool to State House operatives.
A Chinese construction company is facing questions over the deadly collapse of a Bangkok skyscraper that has killed more than 2,000 people in Thailand and neighbouring Myanmar.
Soil testing is now mandatory before construction, as stipulated in the National Building Code 2024, which took effect in March.
Property developers say it is easier for manufacturers to do business in satellite towns than in Nairobi’s metropolitan area owing to favourable cost and availability of land.