Reports

READY… OR NOT? The Register of Voters – Where We Are One Week Ahead of Election Day

As the gateway to the ballot box, voter registration and the resulting Register of Voters is a highly sensitive and vital part of any electoral process. In Kenya, voter registration has long been the subject of serious, contentious debate. In 2013, there were a series of unresolved questions around the Register, including:

• What explained the increase in the number of registered voters (+12,509) between the publication of the provisional figures, after which registration was supposed to be closed, and the publication of the final figures?
• Why were there such stark differences in the changes that had been made in party strongholds (See Table 1)?
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An Assessment of Kenya’s Preparedness for the 8 August 2017 General Election – A Summary of Key Findings and Recommendations

Despite the hope that marked the 2013 elections in Kenya, a wide range of irregularities,inconsistencies and errors during multiple phases of the electoral cycle left the country furtherdivided and without… Read More »An Assessment of Kenya’s Preparedness for the 8 August 2017 General Election – A Summary of Key Findings and Recommendations

Deliberate Loopholes

In this report, AfriCOG documents the privatisation/divestiture of Telkom and Safaricom. “Deliberate Loopholes” describes some of the lapses that occurred in the privatisation of Telkom Kenya and Safaricom