News - Kenya Embassy in Sweden

March 29, 2019

Kenya steps up Aids battle as building starts on $100m drug factory

Nairobi facility will be largest of its kind in Africa, boosting Kenyan economy and supplying 23 countries. Construction has started on a multimillion dollar Aids drug factory that will become [...]

March 29, 2019

Battle for water to end after company agrees to relocate intake in the Aberdare forest

Battle for water to end after company agrees to relocate intake in the Aberdare forest A conflict between Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) and a water firm over the control [...]

March 28, 2019

The African Continental Free Trade Area to enter into force

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AFTA) is here and will formally be launched at the next summit of the African Union this July in Niamey in Niger. This is [...]

March 27, 2019

Lessons from Kenya president’s social media exit

Last Friday, Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta deactivated his Facebook and Twitter accounts, with his chief of staff explaining that there had been unauthorised access to the president’s official social [...]